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Originally Posted by Drury18
When I exercised that right, I was aware of who the Party leader was and could make my decision accordingly. Throwing in a new leader because the other one wanted to retire shows the lack of planning by the PC's as they had several months to elect a new leader and have a new election. This sort of behaviour is rare in other countries. And completely unnecessary. The PC's could have voted on their new candidate, called the election for October 1st or shortly before so that when Stelmach left on October 1st, there was a fairly decided new Premier in place. Not just who the PC's decided to put in.
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I guess you are naive. Like I said, in our system, you don't vote for a party leader. It is not the PC Party's fault that the system doesn't work the way you want it to. Like it or not, the new Premier is being fairly decided.
Additionally, your argument is quite simply, wrong. This entire leadership election is a specific act of planning by the PCs. They are electing their new leader now in an effort to give their image a boost into the next election. And they will call the next general election when it is most advantageous to them. Welcome to 150 years of Canadian politics.
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And yes, to an extent, obviously the government would change slightly as all PC candidates have said they would be making changes to the way Stelmach did things. We will wake up to a slightly different PC government, perhaps one that if we had another vote and let Albertans decide, they would not vote for. Again, we are a democratic country and having someone assigned to lead by private vote because that party was already in place is a poor excuse. Some people vote by party, some by leader. And this is not like a death where you couldn't plan. The PC's had plenty of time to do this in the fairest possible manner. Sadly, they opted not to. Speaks volume of the Party.
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The policies of the governing party changes slightly all the time for a myriad of reasons. This is just another reason, and nothing earth shattering. In fact, the problem that none of these candidates are earth shatteringly different is a complaint Preston Manning made about the PC party's overall health.