[killer_carlson]

I dunno about that.....

Rob Anderson was a couple years behind me at school. He always presented as politically ambitious. Certainly he is bright.

In the last election, he had a huge margin of victory (second only to Stelmach), he was given a junior secretary position even though he had no political experience. I think there would have been a good bet you would have seen him in cabinet sooner rather than later. The point is that if he was worried about his position, he would have kept his mouth shut and been an MLA for the next 40 years in the Airdrie area.

I don't think he makes decisions like this on a whim. He is too savy to think that the WRA won't see a dip in the popularity over the next two years before the next election. I think he truely believes what he is saying. Time will tell if it is the right move, but I think it's a mistake to characterize this as a guy desperate to hang on to his seat and career.


The bigger issue to me is the fact that the PC's had the opportunity to obliterate the NDP by refusing to give them funding and official party status because they failed to retain enough seats to get automatic status. The PC's did it to ensure that the NDP had enough funding to present as (ir)relevant enough to split the left wing vote and keep the Libs at bay.

NOW HOWEVER.....

the WRA has 3 seats, one more than the (ir)relevant NDP. Precedent forces the PC's to permit them funding to the WRA. I wonder if the PC's will try some sort of budget cutback thing to prevent the WRA from getting funding for actual work to be done at the Leg......