🗡 CanPol, ABpol: about the Alberta Provincial Police, a (personal, informed opinion) warning to/about Canada in general
- Danielle Smith and the UCP are creating a provincial police force, separate from the RCMP, including an Alberta Sheriffs Police Service:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-sheriffs-policing-9.7104301
- Danielle Smith and the UCP are going to require citizenship indicators be printed on IDs and drivers licenses, come late 2026:
- Danielle Smith and the UCP are pursuing "Quebec-style" control over provincial immigration (using the results of that same government's austerity measures as a justification):
https://calgaryherald.com/news/smith-radio-show
- Possibly-related: a proposal for an AI data centre - the largest in Canada - was just delayed in the town of Olds, but there is no guarantee the proposal will stay dead.
https://thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-centre-denied/
- Likely-related: The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), already broken, has been absorbed into the Alberta Police Review Commission.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11554395/alberta-police-review-commission-police-conduct-asirt/
- Possibly-related: (Article is from 2005 and Ontario, but an Edmonton Police Service chief was just recently caught doing the same thing) Police chiefs taking trips to Israel for "educational" purposes.
(Article from 2005) https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/77785
(Article from 2026) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-israel-9.7125865
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To look at the rest of Canada:
- Immigrants already get detained in Canada, despite the legality or type of their immigration status, and held in dismal conditions with no clear release date.
- Immigration has been, and is a major talking point for Conservatives, and has been a major factor in the current political climate getting to this point.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-too-many-immigrants-9.6945905
- People are holding anti-immigrant hate rallies, in the open.
- As mentioned before, Quebec is just as extreme:
https://immigration.ca/quebec-cuts-immigration-to-45000-and-closes-quebec-experience-program/
If you're familiar with how American police and border patrol operates, and you're familiar with the current, manufactured Albertan separatist push (as well as Washington meetings and the 51st state bullshit), then you might understand what I mean when I say the following thing:
Even with Canada having all of this going on: Danielle Smith and the UCP don't think that's extreme enough.
It's not unreasonable to say that they're trying to build their own version of ICE, here in the province of Alberta. Other provinces may want to follow, and that can't be allowed to happen.
