The Stelmach royalty review was a complete joke, and I honestly think Steady Ed should have been given his marching orders then and there.
The "expert" on the O&G industry that the royalty review panel consulted with was a guy who made his money in the .com boom, and who had next to no true knowledge of how the industry worked in Alberta. Yet the panel took his advice as verbatim and created the royalty system we have now.
Stelmach has also run a dictorship since being elected, where any dissent in the party leads to a swift ousting from the caucus, regardless of possible merit. Not being able to constructively criticize and build a stronger foundation as a result, leads to ineffective govenrment and has given the WRA an actual chance. I won't be voting conservative, but I can't in good conscience vote Liberal either, so that leaves WRA, and I think alot of Albertans might feel the same way. In any case, I think Stelmach has to go.
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