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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Provincially, the party suffers from the blowback of this, but also, I can't think of any one of these situations where Taft, or any previous leader of the party stood up and spoke out against the federal party in support of the voice of Albertans.
But when I look at Kevin Taft today, and Nicol, MacBeth and Mitchell before him, and the party composition as a whole, I do not see an organization that would stand up to the feds if they targetted Alberta again.
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You could, however, conversely look at it as a silent retreat from the federal political realm. Why would the provincial party have to verbally express themselves as such? I agree it would do the party a favor to flat out say they are NOT associated with the federal Liberals, but they haven't exactly said anything that would condone Chretien, Martin, and Dion either. Sometimes groups distance themselves by just not mentioning others at all, and perhaps this is how the Alberta Libs are going about it.
That said too, would you not be equally upset if the PC's didn't speak out against Mulroney's Airbus affair or other such scandals? The federal PC's have been more friendly with Western Canada than the Libs, but they aren't exactly virginal either.