Commentary
When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told her United Conservative Party convention that Canada could work, some people booed. Which is an interesting and instructive response, especially ideologically, because public policy seems to be divided between people who typically refuse to believe things can be as bad as they seem, and ones who refuse to believe they’re better. As both generate dangerous errors when wrong, they’re worth thinking about, and knowing which you are.
The particular issue was this “memorandum of understanding” laying out a roadmap to a plan for an agreement to work out a framework for developing an approach to approving the creation of a pathway to a Neverland pipeline. On which, yes, I’m booing too. But I don’t want to get too far into the specifics, or lack thereof, because my focus is how those people reacted ideologically to alleged good news….