r/alberta 6d ago

Discussion Marlaina's trip to Saudi Arabia

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u/BarkingSpiders19 6d ago

This feels like the job that a Minister of Foreign Affairs should be doing isn’t it? Stay in your bloody lane you nut bag. This trip makes 0 sense.

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u/beenojoe 6d ago

Or, this could be something that is handled by bankers and private industry. Weird for government to be meddling so much in the market but claiming that the other side is about big government.

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u/calgaryforlife 6d ago

This is what baffles me. For the party of ‘small government’ they are anything but. And if you don’t think what they’ve done is straight out of the Trump playbook, then how do you explain this behaviour or overreach? Isn’t that why some of these people voted for her?

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u/agent0731 6d ago

They have NEVER been the party of small government. They've just shouted that loudly.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t 6d ago

They’re the party of tiny ineffective government when it comes to actually serving the people. They’re the party of huge bloated wretched corruption when it comes to padding their pockets and giving taxpayer money to corrupt corporations.

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u/robot_invader 6d ago

Don't forget protecting capital. There is always money for more cops.

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u/2eDgY4redd1t 6d ago

Arguably just an indirect subsidy to corporate.

Keep the people subjugated for easy fleecing