Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said she looks forward to a “robust discussion” from the more than 2,100 expected at the party’s first meeting since the spring election.
A United Conservative Party of Alberta's sign is shown in front of the Alberta flag prior to the party's leadership announcement in Calgary, Alta., Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022.Members of Alberta’s ruling United Conservative Party will be debating a policy resolution requiring schools to obtain parental consent prior to using a student’s preferred name or pronouns if that student is under 16.The pronoun policy was put forward by the Edmonton-West Henday constituency association .
Another policy proposal seeks to require parents be “informed of and in-charge of all decisions” for provincially-funded services, “including education and health care.”That proposal from the Calgary-Lougheed CA included an “elegant solution” in the form of a “Bill of Parental Rights.” She said using this framework for pushing forward anti-LGBTQ+ policies means its proponents are able to get support from people who may not understand the nuance of the issue, but feel parents ought to be involved in their children’s decisions.
“We don’t have policy established on it yet, but we are having those discussions,” Smith said at the time.“It has been my hope from the beginning that we wouldn’t politicize this.” “They’ll certainly appeal to some people within the party – those who are much more socially conservative, who are deeply influenced by some of the culture wars, particularly coming out of the United States. Some of these policy proposals don’t seem to bear any relation to reality,” Williams said.
Williams said some of the policy proposals appear to come from “imagining a problem” and proposing a solution, and some proposals make broad assumptions.
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