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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Oh come now, IFF. We both know you are smarter than that. Nobody said anything about disregarding the last 50 years, but it remains convenient that you chose to disregard the first 50 years.
As you allude to later, experience and competence are not synonyms. Ed Stelmach and Rob Anders are experienced politicians. How many here do you think would consider either of them competent?
In the end, I think you are both right, just arguing from different angles. Alberta is a province ruled by dynasties, but when it decides to change, it changes in a big hurry, and it doesn't much care how much political experience the MLAs it elects have.
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Alberta has been ruled by dynasties and has decided to change in a hurry in the past. That doesn't necesarily mean that this will continue in the future though. The supporters of the WRA seem to think that because this happened in 1971 (before many of us on this board were even born!) that this is going to happen this time as well. In reality though there is no reason at all the WRA couldn't win 6-12 seats and then two elections from now dwindle down to none.