🇨🇦 Jeered once, so Alberta wants a second consent ritual

When locals boo a one-gigawatt AI data centre and the government responds with another town hall, you know the fix is in. Alberta is pretending consultation matters after residents in Sturgeon County jeered the first meeting over Meta’s nearly 270,000-square-metre project, reported. Translation: the public gave the wrong answer, so the political class is bringing everyone back until the optics improve.

This is the new Canadian model: hand over land, power and long-term planning to tech giants, then call it innovation. A natural gas-fired plant for an AI complex sounds very pragmatic, until you remember the same governing caste strangles ordinary Canadians with climate sermons, carbon taxes and endless regulatory theatre. Meta gets a gigawatt-scale red carpet while citizens get managed democracy and a microphone at a supervised venting session. If Alberta wants to act sovereign, it should stop treating global corporate demand as destiny and start treating local consent and provincial leverage as more than decorative props.

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