Shut down major streets to automobile traffic
As such, this resolution recommends the creation of a fund paying cities to close “major commercial streets to car traffic.”Okay, they don’t use the term “Toronto-ize,” but there is a resolution that calls for a wholesale cultural and economic restructuring of the Canadian prairies — the part of Canada that just happens to never vote Liberal.Article content
And just in case this resolution didn’t ping absolutely every single Alberta anxiety about the Liberal Party, it makes sure to note that top-down federal controls during the COVID-19 pandemic provide a model as to how to achieve “desirable results” in transitioning the Prairies.Speaking of COVID-19, delegates also favoured the creation of a kind of permanent CERB, a “Guaranteed Liveable Basic Income.