Understanding the larger context -- 10 steps to totalitarianism

Open Letter to Alberta's NDP MLA Kathleen Hanley

To Kathleen Ganley

Hello Ms. Ganley, it is clear that the NDP, including you, are not comprehending the larger context in which Ms. Smith's recent comments were made. The NDP's claim that Ms. Smith holds "extreme views" simply cannot be supported.

CTV News ran a clip yesterday (May 10, 2023) in which at the 20 minute mark, we hear Ms. Smith speaking before she became Premier:

"Then we would have the Alberta Health Quality Council do an auditor function and tell us whether or not Alberta Health Services should continue running the Lougheed Hospital, or the Rockyview Hospital, or South Campus..."  An article in the National Post provided a further quote by Ms. Smith: “If they can’t meet the terms we want them to, we can do (a request for proposal) and then the Alberta Health Services can give a different contract to a different group of doctors . . . to run all of our hospitals,” Smith said.

On the CTV News broadcast you follow this video excerpt saying:

"Not only does Danielle Smith want you to pay to see a doctor and not only does Danielle Smith believe the majority of Albertans are comparable to followers of Hitler, she also wants to sell off Alberta hospitals."

As a former NDP voter and as a woman who cheered for the women like you who took on senior cabinet posts when the NDP came to power in Alberta, I am extremely shocked at how loosely you and NDP colleagues are playing with words and statements. With your background in law, and particularly as a former provincial Minister of Justice, you should know of the dangers of twisting words and taking ideas out of context. 

And with your studies in psychology, you of all people, should be able to recognize psy-ops when they are rolled out.

How can the NDP continue claiming that the UCP wants "you to pay for your own doctor" AFTER Ms. Smith signed on to a health funding deal with the federal Liberals that expressly outlaws charges for health services? (Not even the NDP during their tenure got rid of out of pocket payments for various types of health care, and in particular for those people without union health benefit plans.)

As a trained lawyer, you should be working with source documents and therefore instead of regurgitating talking points that some focus group identifies as the best messages to use to get NDP signs on people's lawns, you of all people should be demanding your colleagues look at actual documentation. Below I include an excerpt of and a link to the full essay written prior to Ms. Smith's premiership on some common-sense suggestions to address certain issues of healthcare management to make public health the best it can be, not to get rid of it. There is no support for the claim that the privatization the NDP rails against is even in the cards for today's UCP.

If you have been following the various iterations of health boards in this province over the past 6 decades, you will remember a time when health decisions were controlled locally and not top down. Urbanites in their sleek offices may have certain conceptions about local health needs, but they may miss what is truly needed out in the rural corners of the province. Ms. Smith's quote refers to the non-partisan, arm's length Health Quality Council having a dispassionate look at how the top down AHS is managing hospitals, as a single example, and then looking at alternate ways in which management can take actions if quality needs to be improved. If in some regions, it would make more sense for health care delivery to be run by local boards so be it. This is a far cry from the fear mongering that BigPharma or BigCorp would be allowed to buy up hospitals, for example. 

As for your claim that Ms. Smith believes that the majority of Albertans are followers of Hitler.... I am horrified, dismayed, stunned (words fail me) that our former Minister of Justice would SO MISUNDERSTAND Ms. Smith's comments.

Such is the state of censorship today that a former Justice Minister, with degrees in psychology, philosophy and law (if Wikipedia is to be trusted) would

a) not be able to actually understand or relay the words Ms. Smith used

b) actually relay the OPPOSITE of what Ms. Smith said

c) not have a clue about the context of which Ms. Smith was speaking

and d) would not be astute enough to muster the intellectual curiosity to find out where Ms. Smith and others are getting their information.

Instead, NDPers resort to name calling, claiming that the UCP has selected a leader with "extreme views" which would mean that at least half of Albertans themselves, those who plan to vote for Ms. Smith, must by extension then also be extremists too.

Equally distressing is that Ms. Notley, also a lawyer, would just as drastically mischaracterize the comments made by Ms. Smith in a different video (also made as she was not yet Premier).

In that video, Ms. Smith is listening to someone express his views around that year's Remembrance Day observations. He was saying how sad it is that Canadians today are so unaware of how hardfought our freedoms were, that we so easily let our freedoms be taken away. He states: "We're just handing them (our freedoms) over because, oh yeah, that's what Deena Hinshaw, that's what Teresa Tam said, then fine.... Here we are, in my opinion, handing all of that stuff to those who would like to control us." To which Ms. Smith said: "So well said, I couldn't have said it better." Ms. Smith shared that she felt those leaders wearing poppies basically to pay lip service to the veterans of the past, "don't understand that their actions are exactly the actions that our brave men and women fighting in uniform were fighting against."

NDP members and other viewers of corporate and state connected "mainstream" media have not been privy to what the rest of us have been taking note of these past three years. Everyone who knows of the unelected corporate technocratic globalists (of which I have written in a post available here https://followingthecovidscience.substack.com/p/looking-beyond-leftright-politics) knows full well that we have all been victims of a massive psychological operation-the corporate media fueled fear mongering about the dangers of COVID-19 and its feared asymptomatic transmission so paralyzed the population that we eagerly cheered on and waited for something which we in our pre-2019 minds would NEVER have consented to have injected... Just as no one would have swallowed a Monsanto product back then, so no one would have willingly rolled up their sleeves for a tainted and toxic Pfizer product. The very idea that COVID-19 was used as a pretext to have people injected SO THAT they would willingly consent to digitized identity and surveillance documentation was so far-fetched, that it was hard to believe anyone would seriously be thinking along those lines. And yet, Ms. Smith and her speaking partner in this video were both very well aware of how people at the top of the control grid (i.e. folks like Klaus Schwab in his writing on the Fourth Industrial Revolution for example along with Bill Gates, Yuval Harari and others) have exactly those goals in mind.

Meanwhile, Ms. Notley stated:

"She's comparing those Albertans, 75 per cent of them, to the architects of an antisemitic genocide." 

Ms. Smith was NOT referencing to the vaccinated 75% of Albertans as architects of a genocide at all. Instead, she sees them as victimized, tricked by the insidious gentleness of those pushing for this vaccination...which due to its triggering trillions of copies of the very dangerous substance spike protein within the body, has already injured, hospitalized, disabled or killed millions of people over all the countries which participated heavily in the product roll out. See: https://vaxjustice.org/counter/

Ms. Smith's references to the Netflix show about how regimes like Hitlers BEGIN... show that she is aware of the steps countries go through to become totalitarian. Ms. Smith is essentially concerned about how totalitarian regimes start and noted that Canada has been going through that process (while mainstream media devotees have been completely oblivious of all of this.)

Former feminist author Dr. Naomi Wolff had noted, in her interviews with older women who lived in countries that transitioned from democracies to dictatorships, that there seemed to be a common progression of steps in each case. She then published a list of 10 steps to watch out for - clear signs a country is headed in the wrong direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_America:_Letter_of_Warning_to_a_Young_Patriot

Let's compare this with the situation in Canada these past three years:

#1 Justin Trudeau's myriad comments, particularly those in French have truly invoked the "unvaccinated" as the enemy (not much different from messaging Hitler's propaganda team used to have folks believe their fellow citizens of Jewish faith/ethnicity were vectors of disease and to be avoided.)

#2 While not overtly done in Canada, guarded citizen camps were set up in Australia. There was no talk there (yet) of physical torture, but lots of first person reports cite the mental toll it had on people to be yanked from their family and taken to these camps. In Alberta and Ontario, certain pastors were imprisoned for the crime of keeping their churches open. Pastor James Coates, for example, recently relayed his experiences to the National Citizen's Inquiry https://rumble.com/v2ly1wa-pastor-james-coates-from-grace-life-church-shares-his-experience-red-deer-d.html

#3 Who were those non-English speaking paramilitary thug-looking men in unidentifiable uniforms who bore down on Canadian protesters in Ottawa on Valentine's Day 2022? What was that United Nations plane doing hidden in some out of the way spot? Why was no mainstream investigative journalist even asking these types of questions?

#4 Snitch lines anyone? What about the ramifications of the passage of Bill C-11?

#5 Well, in combo with the snitch line, and with a population as riled up with COVID fears that they would not logically respond to actual miniscule case fatality rate data, especially once they had received the C-19 injections, it wasn't really governments that were harassing citizen's groups, it was frantic citizen enforcers who took on that role -- encouraged by the government.

#6. Yes, people were detained and then released on the outskirts of Ottawa to walk back to shelter in the cold. And 4 men were detained without being charged and StILL HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED over 15 months later... What is the NDP saying about the human rights of  Chris Carbert, Anthony Olienick, Jerry Morin, and Christopher Lysak? Given the NDP wants to defund the police, why are they not investigating claims that these men are behind bars under false pretences? That perhaps the stache of weapons they are alleged to be associated with really was not put at the Coutts border crossing by them but perhaps by police affiliated agents?  Why have no charges been laid all this time? Is there a lack of evidence? Lots for you as former Justice Minister to get to the bottom of...just make use of your former connections in the justice system to advocate for these four men...(or figure out how to have these cases ended or go forward, as it is torturous and a complete violation of Canadian charter rights to be in limbo uncharged but imprisoned all this time away from their own young children. Do you know under which these fellow Albertans are being detained?

#7. Through monies granted by government agencies to initiatives to "combat misinformation" the Council of Canadian Academies and various "misinformation gurus" have truly been promoting misinformation while attacking Canadian academic and medical specialists. Please see: https://followingthecovidscience.substack.com/p/when-the-misinformation-gurus-promote.

#8. See our Prime Minister addressing this himself:

Joke or no joke, it is true that the Canadian government has not only been funding the CBC but also a wide range of mainstream media outlets to the tune of $600 million in tax benefits. Just like BigCorp & vaccine investor owned YouTube, the various mainstream channels appear to have their list of Topics to be Avoided at All Costs - and so anyone who even suggests there is another side to the pro-vax narrative gets shut down. So the media essentially entertains but misinforms....under the auspices of the government. 

#9. Yup.. grandma killers, etc. Not participating in Health Canada's moving goal posts has certainly been cast as "not being kind" or "not doing your part" etc. pretty much as treason to fellow Canadians.

#10 Subvert the rule of law... Let's have Queen's University Law professor Dr. Bruce Pardy explain all this: https://rumble.com/v2n6o0q-law-professor-explains-how-the-system-works.html 

Is it extreme to be so concerned about Canadians losing their autonomy to initiators of a grand psy-op?

Is it extreme to be so concerned about Canadians and Albertans being the unwitting victims of 5th generation warfare as briefly alluded to here by the first to develop the platform upon which today's mRNA vaccine products were built, Dr. Robert Malone? https://rumble.com/v2n2ghq-5th-generational-warfare.html 

People like Ms. Smith and her conversation partner who are aware of how dictatorial persons can weaponize compassion, and who note how Canadian leaders are quick to kowtow to whatever dictates BigPharma funded WHO, NIAID, FDI, CDC, etc, came up with next, felt that at that time, they could not in good conscience join in with the virtue signalling masses, who put on the poppy without really understanding what it means to NOT stand up for Freedom, for honour for the elderly veterans who were now also the victims of horrid and ineffective, unscientific lockdown policies.

Please Ms. Ganley, Ms. Notley and all the rest, please BECOME MORE INFORMED so that YOU TOO SHARE THE CONCERNS MS. SMITH has for the future of our society given how close we are to coming to the edge of a total loss of freedoms. 

Instead of slandering Ms. Smith, the UCP voters and others as "extreme" consider how your policies and the willful blindness you have been engaging in, have HELPED move our society closer to the one depicted here:

Sincerely,

Hannah Luise

Concerned AB Citizen

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An excerpt from:

https://www.policyschool.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Albertas-Economic-and-Fiscal-Future.pdf

Alberta's expenses are now at roughly $55 billion. Debt servicing costs have climbed to $3 billion, for a total of $58 billion.

Meanwhile, revenues are only reliably expected to generate $46 billion. That means there is a structural shortfall of $12 billion. more than Alberta collects in personal income taxes in a year. It's nearly the entire amount we spend on education and post-secondary combined. It is more than we've received in resource revenues in any given year going back to 2008/09...

Do you see the problem? We cannot balance the budget on resource revenues alone. We cannot balance the budget on tax increases alone. We cannot balance the budget on spending cuts alone. We have to do all three.

We can no longer afford universal social programs that are 100 per cent paid by taxpayers. That is the simple truth. Taxpayers do not want to throw more money at an inefficient system. ...The fundamental rethink that needs to happen in health care is to create a patient-centred system. It has to be more than a slogan. It has to have buy-in on the part of practitioners and patients. It has to be built on a model that is already working. It has to shift the burden of payment away from taxpayers and toward private individuals, their employers and their insurance companies. 

What the government needs to do is create matching Health Spending Accounts for all Albertans. The government should pledge to match up to $375 per person and challenge individuals and employers to do the same. The benefit of a Health Spending Account is that it allows people the means to pay for services that are uncovered and largely preventative - massage therapy, physiotherapy, dieticians, prescriptions and so on. By taking responsibility for their health and giving people the means to do so, it should translate into less pressure on the hospital system and better chronic care management which will bring costs down. My view is that the entire budget for general practitioners should be paid for from Health Spending Accounts. If the government funded the account at $375 a year, that's the equivalent of 10 trips to a GP, so there can be no argument that this would compromise access on the basis of ability to pay..

What it would do is allow for people to make their own choices about the type of medical practitioner they want to see in a year.

A Health Spending Account would actually create a system with more comprehensive coverage than it currently has now...Universality must mean that no one is denied care when they need it and no one should face bankruptcy because of medical bills. Full stop. It does not mean that we must maintain a system of arbitrary rules for what you must pay for out of your own pocket and what government must pay for exclusively on your behalf. 

We should begin to talk about creating a publicly administered health insurance system based on principles of proper insurance. In a proper insurance program, there is usually a deductible or co-payment on services until it reaches a certain maximum when catastrophic coverage kicks in. If we establish the principle of Health Spending Accounts, then we can also establish co-payments. It doesn't need to be onerous, and it could be on a sliding scale. If you earn less than $75,000 a year, there would be no deductible. If you earn $75,000 to $150,000 a year, there would be a $500 deductible. If you earn more than $150,000 a year, there would be a $1000 deductible...

I don't believe Albertans are willing to pay one penny more for an underperforming health system and watch their dollars evaporate without any improvement in performance. ...I can guarantee you as well that if the government creates this structure, business and non-profits will step up. Employers will make matching contributions to Health Spending Accounts. Non-profits will be established to make charitable contributions to the Health Spending Accounts of low-income earners so they can get a broader range of health services. Because that is the character of Albertans. We take care of each other. It's what we do