For me it’s not protectionism Linda but more a way of moving to act.
We, and I use the term loosely, are more results oriented and in a quicker fashion.
What we are not is a separate class of victims as portrayed by all of our current and most of the past conservative leadership.
I believe, my friends believe, in some fundamentals- it’s about “us collectively ” not about “me and mine”, it’s about consensus building and being able to agree to disagree because thankfully we don’t all think alike.
It’s about building, being entrepreneurial, self supporting, helping all to achieve no matter what their abilities are. It’s a hand up, it’s building a bigger table it’s not punching down
What it’s not is anything that comes out of Mrs David Smith Moretta’s mouth or that of any of her acolytes.
I was raised to work for the community and not to personally benefit from that. I believe, though I can’t speak for them, that it also applies to my friends and political colleagues.
As an Edmontonian who has lived in Ottawa for decades, I relate closely to Hogan's efforts to translate Alberta to people "out east" (only westerners use that phrase for ON and QC haha).
AB stereotypes are deeply persistent... but premiers like Danielle Smith obviously feed into all the rural cliches.
But Redmonton has been a thing for a long time; urban AB is actually very progressive.
In fact, often these progressives end up splitting the vote, allowing Conservatives to win seats.
All three current national leaders from AB: Carney and Don Davies are both from Edmonton, and Poilievre is from Calgary. This was unimaginable when I was growing up, in the same high school with Davies and at the same time as Carney.
Let's hope these Albertans use their voices to build lasting change in federal politics, as the demographic and economic weight of the West grows.
Time to build barns indeed, because winter is settling in for a while, it would seem....
I’ve always explained things along these lines to the non-Albertans I know. The politics we have and the things we believe in are a lot more complicated than what shows on the surface. As an Edmontonian and Vancouverite I’ve seen both sides of the coin, and there is a meaningful difference. A lot of people who would call themselves New Democrats or Conservatives in Alberta would, in some other provinces, be calling themselves Liberals, with no change in values.
Thank you, from one Alberta born barn builder to another.
"It means grounding decisions in the values people here actually hold – practicality, fairness, stewardship, patriotism, and a strong sense of contribution." is something I heard clearly from my rather conservative Scottish born grandmother, my Franco Albertan father-in-law and my Jr and Sr High Social Studies teachers.
I think that's the head space of the average Albertan.
Proud Albertan - Forever Canadian and supportive of a promising future for all of Canada! 🇨🇦
Albertans, as in the rest of Canada are, at heart, liberal democrats. But the world has taken an illiberal lurch toward intolerance. We’re not immune to that in Canada.
30% of Canadians weren’t born here, and polls show between 10-30% of Albertans express some interest in separation. I suspect the Venn diagram of those two groups has no overlap. But I also suspect “separation leaning” Albertans feel excluded from Canada and that some immigrants to Canada feel excluded too.
As a western Canadian Federal Liberal you have a role - bring the liberal-democrats of Canada to understand those feelings of exclusion and find ways to bring us together.
The Canada health act sets some boundaries under which provincial administration of their healthcare system must operate. It’s the same for healthcare as many other government responsibilities and it’s not federal overreach to intervene when the province oversteps.
And I’d also like to hear from @CoreyHogan what the federal government plans to do about Alberta’s contravention of the act.
As opposed to a premier who is under criminal investigation for overseeing the inflated contracts, negotiated with their favoured contributors? I’ll take the Ottawa oversight with this current group, any day of the week.
Looks like a lot of legalese and I’ve got too busy a weekend to look through the weeds. Suffice to say you’d rather have a premier under criminal investigation running my healthcare system, than a world class economist. Here’s a reminder why Marliana is under investigation. She sells out AB to corporate medicine, not for the best of patient outcomes.
The personalities are irrelevant. We don't choose which order of government runs the Healthcare system becuase it is the Province and only a constitutional amendment can change that.
Would you rather have someone 3,000 km away with no accountability running the system?
🇨🇦 Canada is getting dangerously close to a “let them eat cake” moment, only our version is a carbon rebate, a CBC town hall, and some overpaid government flack explaining that paying $9 for butter is really about building a more inclusive future.
Housing is cooked, groceries are obscene, wages are going nowhere, and the people in charge still talk like they are hosting the Junos.
That is when a country gets ugly — when ordinary people are getting hammered by reality and the ruling class keeps responding like it is auditioning for a Heritage Minute sponsored by Lululemon.
I've been reading all your e-mails and I have to say the only reason you were elected is because the riding boundaries changed. Our previous Conservative MP gave concrete information about what happened in parliament, what bills were being considered for example. It was full of information. He asked us a current policy questions and would let us know the yes or no numbers. All you do is talk and talk and talk about your ideology - and yourself. Why don't you ask us what we think about Bill C-9? I'm not in favor for being penalized because I say Christ's name in public, for example. Or give my opinion on the Economist PM putting this country in scandalous debt. Why not get your constituents thoughts on the Feds appealing the Emergency Clause verdict? How about all the continued unvetted immigrants, including the dissidents and bad actors who come with the explicit intentions of disrupting our democracy. You are not in touch with the 'blues' people buddy. You are living in a place in your head and seem very happy to continue on with the sunny days mentality. You need to be voted out next time round.
Hi Wendy - think there might be some confusion. This is not a constituency email newsletter. This is a Substack that existed since before I was elected where I put longer form items. I do regularly mail, however, on topics of constituent interest. These hit the mailbox regularly and cover both general and specific topics. Some examples:
Hi there Sheryl. Thank you for responding! I'm so excited to meet an Albertan that has lived here her entire life. Born here like me, my sister, my husband (4th generation Alberta), my kids, grandkids and my dog??? I guess there is not much difference between us then. Decent of you to point all this out though.
Wendy - I apologize for the nastiness in my comment. Truly have never voted Conservative federally or provincially. Just look over what has been ‘achieved’ or ‘done’ by the Cons both federally and provincially in the past is a clear warning to me. Don’t like what I see but this doesn’t mean I won’t vote Con if their policies are honourable and productive for our country. At this point I find the Liberals a better choice federally as Carney has guided central banks to success for decades. That right now is more important than PP’s whining and complaining.
Yes, I also really appreciated Len Webber’s newsletters that came to my mailbox asking for my opinion on various topics. We do need that as well as a steady hand in Ottawa guiding us through the incredible challenges faced by the government and people of Canada in a changing world.
How are the Liberals "Barn Builders"? They comprise the party of "no", motivated to protect entrenched interests such as oligopolies, public sector workers and retirees rather than get out of the way of people who actually build. Carney may be a more capable leader than Poilievre on almost all fronts. His fatal flaw is that he is too encumbered to conduct aggressive program and organizational reviews. Canada needs a federal budget that is 1995 on steroids and a deregulation tsunami like Thatcher on steroids.
It’s especially amusing for me because my earliest memory of Corey, when we were in school together in the 90’s, was asking my teenage self what I thought about Preston Manning.
Well said, well articulated.
Barn builders, not gun slingers!
For me it’s not protectionism Linda but more a way of moving to act.
We, and I use the term loosely, are more results oriented and in a quicker fashion.
What we are not is a separate class of victims as portrayed by all of our current and most of the past conservative leadership.
I believe, my friends believe, in some fundamentals- it’s about “us collectively ” not about “me and mine”, it’s about consensus building and being able to agree to disagree because thankfully we don’t all think alike.
It’s about building, being entrepreneurial, self supporting, helping all to achieve no matter what their abilities are. It’s a hand up, it’s building a bigger table it’s not punching down
What it’s not is anything that comes out of Mrs David Smith Moretta’s mouth or that of any of her acolytes.
I was raised to work for the community and not to personally benefit from that. I believe, though I can’t speak for them, that it also applies to my friends and political colleagues.
As an Edmontonian who has lived in Ottawa for decades, I relate closely to Hogan's efforts to translate Alberta to people "out east" (only westerners use that phrase for ON and QC haha).
AB stereotypes are deeply persistent... but premiers like Danielle Smith obviously feed into all the rural cliches.
But Redmonton has been a thing for a long time; urban AB is actually very progressive.
In fact, often these progressives end up splitting the vote, allowing Conservatives to win seats.
All three current national leaders from AB: Carney and Don Davies are both from Edmonton, and Poilievre is from Calgary. This was unimaginable when I was growing up, in the same high school with Davies and at the same time as Carney.
Let's hope these Albertans use their voices to build lasting change in federal politics, as the demographic and economic weight of the West grows.
Time to build barns indeed, because winter is settling in for a while, it would seem....
Agree with you 1000%!!! 👏👏👏🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
I’ve always explained things along these lines to the non-Albertans I know. The politics we have and the things we believe in are a lot more complicated than what shows on the surface. As an Edmontonian and Vancouverite I’ve seen both sides of the coin, and there is a meaningful difference. A lot of people who would call themselves New Democrats or Conservatives in Alberta would, in some other provinces, be calling themselves Liberals, with no change in values.
Thank you, from one Alberta born barn builder to another.
"It means grounding decisions in the values people here actually hold – practicality, fairness, stewardship, patriotism, and a strong sense of contribution." is something I heard clearly from my rather conservative Scottish born grandmother, my Franco Albertan father-in-law and my Jr and Sr High Social Studies teachers.
I think that's the head space of the average Albertan.
Proud Albertan - Forever Canadian and supportive of a promising future for all of Canada! 🇨🇦
Albertans, as in the rest of Canada are, at heart, liberal democrats. But the world has taken an illiberal lurch toward intolerance. We’re not immune to that in Canada.
30% of Canadians weren’t born here, and polls show between 10-30% of Albertans express some interest in separation. I suspect the Venn diagram of those two groups has no overlap. But I also suspect “separation leaning” Albertans feel excluded from Canada and that some immigrants to Canada feel excluded too.
As a western Canadian Federal Liberal you have a role - bring the liberal-democrats of Canada to understand those feelings of exclusion and find ways to bring us together.
Corey I think you’re a swell guy but it’s pretty specious to describe this government as being about “coming together to help each other”
Still waiting to hear back from Mr Hogan’s office on what they will do to protect single payer healthcare from Danielle Smith’s Bill 11.
Hopefully nothing. Healthcare is provincial jurisdiction and rightfully so as it is a locally delivered service. The notion that one orders
of government should be "protecting" citizens from another order of government is a fallacy conjured by political strategists.
The Canada Health Act prohibits the introduction of two tier access to healthcare. It is the federal government’s jurisdiction.
The Canada health act sets some boundaries under which provincial administration of their healthcare system must operate. It’s the same for healthcare as many other government responsibilities and it’s not federal overreach to intervene when the province oversteps.
And I’d also like to hear from @CoreyHogan what the federal government plans to do about Alberta’s contravention of the act.
As opposed to a premier who is under criminal investigation for overseeing the inflated contracts, negotiated with their favoured contributors? I’ll take the Ottawa oversight with this current group, any day of the week.
The government can't block access to private healthcare:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1174845/
Section 92 defines healthcare ad Provincial :
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/rfc-dlc/ccrf-ccdl/check/art521.html
Looks like a lot of legalese and I’ve got too busy a weekend to look through the weeds. Suffice to say you’d rather have a premier under criminal investigation running my healthcare system, than a world class economist. Here’s a reminder why Marliana is under investigation. She sells out AB to corporate medicine, not for the best of patient outcomes.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11030862/alberta-surgical-companys-fees-double-public-costs-according-to-ahs-documents/
The personalities are irrelevant. We don't choose which order of government runs the Healthcare system becuase it is the Province and only a constitutional amendment can change that.
Would you rather have someone 3,000 km away with no accountability running the system?
🇨🇦 Canada is getting dangerously close to a “let them eat cake” moment, only our version is a carbon rebate, a CBC town hall, and some overpaid government flack explaining that paying $9 for butter is really about building a more inclusive future.
Housing is cooked, groceries are obscene, wages are going nowhere, and the people in charge still talk like they are hosting the Junos.
That is when a country gets ugly — when ordinary people are getting hammered by reality and the ruling class keeps responding like it is auditioning for a Heritage Minute sponsored by Lululemon.
I've been reading all your e-mails and I have to say the only reason you were elected is because the riding boundaries changed. Our previous Conservative MP gave concrete information about what happened in parliament, what bills were being considered for example. It was full of information. He asked us a current policy questions and would let us know the yes or no numbers. All you do is talk and talk and talk about your ideology - and yourself. Why don't you ask us what we think about Bill C-9? I'm not in favor for being penalized because I say Christ's name in public, for example. Or give my opinion on the Economist PM putting this country in scandalous debt. Why not get your constituents thoughts on the Feds appealing the Emergency Clause verdict? How about all the continued unvetted immigrants, including the dissidents and bad actors who come with the explicit intentions of disrupting our democracy. You are not in touch with the 'blues' people buddy. You are living in a place in your head and seem very happy to continue on with the sunny days mentality. You need to be voted out next time round.
Hi Wendy - think there might be some confusion. This is not a constituency email newsletter. This is a Substack that existed since before I was elected where I put longer form items. I do regularly mail, however, on topics of constituent interest. These hit the mailbox regularly and cover both general and specific topics. Some examples:
GENERAL: http://hogan.mp/28b
BILL SPECIFIC: http://hogan.mp/28a
Also always happy to connect through my MP website: http://www.coreyhoganmp.ca
I think you’re placing blame on easy targets Wendy. Have lived in Alberta my entire life and will NEVER vote Conservative EVER.
I vote Liberal because of decency and taking care of people when they need care. You Cons are only out for yourselves. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🙄🙄🙄
Hi there Sheryl. Thank you for responding! I'm so excited to meet an Albertan that has lived here her entire life. Born here like me, my sister, my husband (4th generation Alberta), my kids, grandkids and my dog??? I guess there is not much difference between us then. Decent of you to point all this out though.
Wendy - I apologize for the nastiness in my comment. Truly have never voted Conservative federally or provincially. Just look over what has been ‘achieved’ or ‘done’ by the Cons both federally and provincially in the past is a clear warning to me. Don’t like what I see but this doesn’t mean I won’t vote Con if their policies are honourable and productive for our country. At this point I find the Liberals a better choice federally as Carney has guided central banks to success for decades. That right now is more important than PP’s whining and complaining.
Yes, I also really appreciated Len Webber’s newsletters that came to my mailbox asking for my opinion on various topics. We do need that as well as a steady hand in Ottawa guiding us through the incredible challenges faced by the government and people of Canada in a changing world.
I am a barn builder too.
How are the Liberals "Barn Builders"? They comprise the party of "no", motivated to protect entrenched interests such as oligopolies, public sector workers and retirees rather than get out of the way of people who actually build. Carney may be a more capable leader than Poilievre on almost all fronts. His fatal flaw is that he is too encumbered to conduct aggressive program and organizational reviews. Canada needs a federal budget that is 1995 on steroids and a deregulation tsunami like Thatcher on steroids.
Great post as usual.
It’s especially amusing for me because my earliest memory of Corey, when we were in school together in the 90’s, was asking my teenage self what I thought about Preston Manning.
A great educational and hopeful piece for this easterner. Thanks Corey!
Great Post! I appreciate your attitude and passion to make our society better. You have had an interesting journey in politics.
Grateful you are representing Alberta.