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Over the last decade, Prolife Alberta has rebuilt a dormant party into a unique political entity focused on influencing legislators rather than getting its own candidates elected. As a registered party, Prolife Alberta isn’t bound by restrictions placed on charities or political advocacy groups, making it the “only political pro-life organization that can issue tax receipts and engage in politics—including during provincial elections,” according to its website.

But you won’t find Ruhl taking credit for the party’s successes. In fact, you won’t find much information about Ruhl at all.

He doesn’t talk to the media. His own party’s website includes no photo or bio or even a single mention of him. Aside from a name signed on Elections Alberta documents, there’s virtually no trace of Ruhl to be found online.

Allan Ruhl, however, has a comparatively large public presence as a traditionalist Catholic commentator and podcast host. Writing for online magazines like OnePeterFive and on AllanRuhl.com, he blends conservative apologetics with conspiratorial themes in his critique of the anti-Christian “abominations” he says are undermining Western civilization—democracy, freedom of speech and freedom of religion.

The new policy means Canada will allow foreign-controlled multinationals to qualify as “Canadian” simply by running revenue and some employment through a local subsidiary. Take General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems. With plants across Quebec, it dominates the production of bullets, shells, missiles, and explosives in Canada. But the firm is American. The policy thus invites the very gaming it is supposed to stop. If this approach persists, a Canadian mailing address will be considered as important as who owns or controls the company. The result will be a system that continues to bind us to foreign allies rather than supporting and growing our own.

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"Without changes, we'll enter loss-of-life territory, where firefighting and emergency response may be compromised. This is serious," Farkas wrote.

I am doing my best to not add too much of my personal opinion to this topic but as someone who works in this space I find myself being grateful this isn't me and at the same time worried that it could happen anywhere.

The nature of my work has me working on different systems and the common thread is that places will build things, but with no plan on how to maintain or replace. A lot of water infrastructure was installed in the post-war period. At that time a useful life of 50-100 year might as well have been forever. The quantity of massive infrastructure, largely buried or otherwise not accessible or with no redundancy had not existed prior to that. Folks kicked the can down the road coupled with "efficiencies" and cuts to maintenance and replacement over the years. We got used to cheap utilities but it's all deferred cost. Not a very fun situation.

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