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Originally Posted by octothorp
Yup, that's pretty much the dilemma. I was always against the Alliance/Tory merger because it meant that Alberta's vote would be locked up and nobody would ever bother trying to win Alberta's vote again. It's okay right now as right now a lot of senior members of the party are Albertan, but that will inevitably fade over time.
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You're bang on. People in Alberta need to realize that they've become the patsies of the current iteration of the Tory party. Harper is no more pro-West than Martin was, and is certainly no different from Ignatieff in that respect. He might throw us the occasional bone but until we show that we're willing to hold them accountable--and to hold them to certain minimal standards of competence and good governance, we'll get nothing and we'll be told to like it.
A good place to start would be Rob Anders. I disagree with Bownesian on this one. Getting rid of Anders would not threaten Harper in the slightest, but might A. Communicate to the Tories that Calgarians won't let them run just anybody to represent us and B. Communicate to all the parties that our voice matters and that it pays to listen, and to work for Alberta's vote.
As it is now, the Tories will give us nothing because it makes no difference, the Liberals will give us nothing because we'll never vote for them anyway, and the NDP are irrelevant. How does
that serve Alberta's interests?