Miranda Rosin (born c. 1995) is a Canadian politician who represented the electoral district of Banff-Kananaskis in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the United Conservative Party from 2019 to 2023.
[2] During her nomination race, she was endorsed by UCP MLAs Leela Aheer, Drew Barnes and Angela Pitt; Conservative MP for Banff-Airdrie Blake Richards; and Canmore town councillor Rob Seeley.
Rosin had given a victory speech to supporters and was being interviewed by local media when her campaign manager told her that Elmeligi took the lead.
The panel was created by Premier Jason Kenney and tasked with exploring ways to give Alberta more leverage when negotiating with the federal government.
[13] After hosting town hall forums across Alberta, the panel's suggestions pushed for more authority to create its own services and programs supported by the federal government.
While the UCP supported the project, Rosin said in a May 2019 letter to Transportation Minister Ric McIver that the Alberta government's consultations with the residents of Springbank, Redwood Meadows and the Tsuu T’ina First Nation were insufficient.
[20] Rosin told the Rocky Mountain Outlook that she hoped to convince the UCP caucus that a McLean Creek Dam would be a better flood mitigation project for the region.
[18] Rosin said she wished a different site would have been chosen, but she hoped the construction of berms in Bragg Creek would provide constituents with adequate protection from flooding.
[9] Shortly after assuming the role, she told media her priorities would be securing proper funding for Travel Alberta, improving economic recovery for the sector following impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and new growth opportunities for recreation and hospitality.
Political leaders in both communities blamed the spread of the virus on their transient workforces and a large, young population that at the time was not eligible for COVID-19 vaccines.
[27][28] Rosin joined political and business leaders in both communities in calling for additional health care support and access to COVID-19 vaccinations, which at the time was limited to immunocompromised individuals and adults who were at least 40 years old.
"[29] In a guest column published in the High Country News on January 6, 2021, Rosin said "nearly every democratic society in the Western world" responded to the pandemic by choosing to "gamble away their longstanding values of freedom and self-determination in surrender to fear and uncertainty.
"[30] On April 7, 2021, Rosin was one of 18 UCP MLAs who signed a letter opposing new public health restrictions one day after they were announced by Kenney.
Rosin apologized for how she responded and said that as someone with Jewish ancestry on her grandfather's side, she should have denounced the individual's use of the term "concentration camps.
The cards quoted the King James Bible's version of Isaiah 9:6, which reads “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” Anna Greenwood-Lee, a Calgary priest with the Anglican Church of Canada and a bishop-elect for a diocese in British Columbia, said quoting a bible verse that uses "government" in its translation "sounds a bit like they’re saying they have divine sanction."
A UCP spokesperson told the Edmonton Journal that Greenwood-Lee's interpretation “sounds like something spurred on by the tin-foiled hat crowd on Twitter.
Her great-uncle participated in the Normandy landings, but two of her grandmother's uncles spent three years in an internment camp in Kananaskis during the Second World War.