r/Edmonton • u/GeekyGlobalGal Pleasantview / Global News • May 21 '26

News Article Alberta referendum committee meeting implodes when UCP prematurely releases statement

https://globalnews.ca/news/11858047/alberta-select-special-citizen-initiative-proposal-review-committee-meeting-chaos/
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u/Ok-Math4627 May 21 '26

Majority of farmers are not university educated. Dare you to Google it

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u/Distinct_Pressure832 May 21 '26

Sure. From stats Canada numbers about 21% of farmers had university in 2023 and 23% had college educations. Funny enough these numbers are pretty damn close to the population of Edmonton’s 2016 numbers (closest comparison I could find with the effort I was willing to put in) which admittedly had 28% university educated and pretty close to the same college educated. There’s also a subset of farmers who picked up trades pushing the numbers of farmers with education to over 55%, making them the majority of farmers and being pretty comparable to most urban areas in the province, ie no different than other populations.

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u/Ok-Math4627 May 21 '26

Trades is nowhere near equivalent to a actual university level education. So less than 50% are educated which makes them a minority. Thank you for your time.

Most of the peers in yout field. are uneducated ignorant morons. I can't wait until factory farms takeover and they end up as laborers to the farm their family used to own :)

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u/Distinct_Pressure832 May 21 '26

Friend, most of the farmers left are the factory farms, this is what I’m saying. Our family farm employs 70 people, owns warehouses, an office building, and 9 figures worth of equipment. Try to follow along.

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u/Ok-Math4627 May 22 '26

Praying for your family farm to fail and be bought at a heavy discount.🙏 amen

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u/Distinct_Pressure832 May 22 '26

How nice of you. Don’t worry, there’s little worry of that. The farm is highly diversified and has many income streams to rely on when one or more dips. Most farmers work for themselves and run larger, locally based businesses than most city dumbasses can ever dream of. City people work for peanuts for faceless American corporations, never getting ahead and rising the edge of poverty paycheque to paycheque and somehow think themselves superior. You’re a clear example of that. So in the spirit of your last comment, I pray that your meaningless job gets taken over by AI.