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John Edward Brownlee

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Result: Kept citation issues have been addressed. Femke (alt) (talk) 12:31, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good lord what happened to this article. There is an entire 15 paragraph streak of uncited material in the article. For some of it, here's

Brownlee attempted to leverage his relationship with King to win provincial control of natural resources. He won such an agreement in 1926, but it was soon scuttled by the federal addition of a clause requiring Alberta to continue supporting separate Roman Catholic schools. Wrangling over this clause persisted until 1929, when a compromise was reached. All that remained was the question of compensation to Alberta for land given away by the federal government, and by the end of 1929 agreement on this too was reached. Brownlee returned from Ottawa to Alberta, where he was greeted by 3,000 cheering supporters. Brownlee was similarly successful in divesting the government of its railways. When his initial attempts to sell them to the CNR or CPR failed, the provincial government took over direct operation of the lines in 1927. In 1928, they began to show a profit, and one of the lines was soon sold to the CPR. A joint offer from the CPR and CNR for the remaining lines was judged too low, and they were sold to the CPR near the end of 1928 for $25 million. Control of natural resources and the divestment of the railways were two factors that permitted balanced provincial budgets, the first of which was registered in 1925. Despite this success, Brownlee continued to advocate austerity, and tried unsuccessfully to persuade the federal government to assume a greater share of the costs of new social programs, such as the old age pension. His resulting reputation as a penny-pincher came at a cost to his personal popularity. Brownlee's government also attempted to advance a progressive agenda. One way this manifested itself was an attempt to consolidate Alberta's thousands of school districts into a far smaller number of school divisions. The plan was supported by educational reformers who believed that the decentralized status quo made province-wide reform impossible, but was scrapped when rural residents expressed fears that it would mean the closure of local schools. Another progressive initiative was the Sexual Sterilization Act, which allowed for the sterilization of "mental defectives". While the Act, repealed in 1972, is now viewed as barbaric, at the time it enjoyed the support of moral reformers like Nellie McClung, who believed it was for the subjects' own protection.

I do not know if it got lost when it was split but something needs to change. Onegreatjoke (talk) 17:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

User:Steve Smith, who originally brought the article to GA in 2009, completely revamped the premier section with this edit in 2011. The user might have intended to add citations later, but never did. I think a fairly simple fix would be to reinstate the GA version of the offending sections, which satisfies the requirements. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The content of the section generally summarizes Premiership of John Edward Brownlee#Road to prosperity (1925–29) (Featured Article) which has citations. It would be easy enough to check those citations and add to it. - Caddyshack01 (talk) 19:49, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It would really be a shame to delist this article seeing as the sub-articles are featured. The citations are already in the sub-articles. Give me a week and I'll see what I can do. Steelkamp (talk) 14:10, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Steelkamp, do you intend to continue? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 00:30, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please bear with me. Steelkamp (talk) 13:53, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My work is done now. It should be good enough to pass. Steelkamp (talk) 06:03, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep with thanks to Steelkamp. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 19:46, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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