{"id":945866,"date":"2026-10-25T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945866\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T15:54:15","slug":"letters-hey-pspp-you-dont-speak-for-us-albertans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/945866\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Hey, PSPP, you don&#8217;t speak for us Albertans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Re: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.montrealgazette.com\/article\/281530823009995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Results of Alberta referendum send clear message: premier<\/a>\u201d (The Gazette, Oct. 22)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albertans, as a general rule, don\u2019t like it when politicians from other provinces speak on our behalf. But we especially don\u2019t like it when politicians in other provinces misrepresent our opinions while doing so.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon attempted to spin Alberta\u2019s referendum results to prop up his own pledge to hold a separation referendum. He did so well before all the votes had been counted. As it transpired, all of the constitutional questions flipped to \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re: \u201cResults of Alberta referendum send clear message: premier\u201d (The Gazette, Oct. 22) Albertans, as a general rule,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338,1062],"class_list":["post-945866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}