Alberta UCP faces public backlash as recall legislation threatens MLAs | Unpublished
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Publication Date: November 4, 2025 - 20:51

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Alberta UCP faces public backlash as recall legislation threatens MLAs

November 4, 2025

At least half a dozen United Conservative Party MLAs, including Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s education minister, have been placed in the crosshairs of an organized effort to use recall legislation to oust sitting politicians.

Minister of Education Demetrios Nicolaides has been the face of some of the provincial government’s most controversial decisions over the past year, including requiring parental consent for name and pronoun changes in classrooms, banning books the UCP deems sexually explicit from school libraries and the most recent decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause to force striking teachers back to work.



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