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First off, 851 people (20%) signed the petition.
"Those individuals" who raised this are undoubtedly tied back to Take Back Alberta - or at least, the organizers are.
They will do the same thing that Westlock did: Present this as a neutral "no special interests" policy, and then advertise the shit out of their rational opinion, attacking the woke extremists for forcing their issue on what should be neutral territory.
Then they'll get about a 51% vote - not representative of the entire town, but enough to ban pride symbolism in the town.
Then they'll move onto the next town - maybe Rocky Mountain House or Didsbury or Sexsmith or Brooks. Actually, scratch that - they won't touch a town in Smith's riding for now.
But over time, they'll get the same bylaw passed in another town and another and another, until they can claim most of the rural electoral districts. Then - maybe after getting a few larger towns or even cities (Lethbridge), they'll petition the government. "Clearly the majority of Albertans support this neutrality, so let's make it a provincial law."
And David Parker will sit back, chuckling in his white robe and hat, as he destroys the lives of LGBTQ2+ people, and finishes his second front - banning abortion in the province.
Sorry, thank you for the correction on the number of petitioners. I didn't read the article carefully enough. From the article: