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Originally Posted by Slava
I think that bolded part sums it up best. You're a pure partisan so it really doesn't matter. You will vote WRA regardless.
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No one party will match your individual beliefs in every respect. Thus people end up aligning with one party or another. They become willing to overlook the small things they don't agree with because they are able to see the bigger picture and the long term objectives.
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The reality is that these MLAs were completely in agreement with the legislation. If they disagreed and it was bad for them to say so they could've simply said nothing, but instead they came out in favour.
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That's not exactly true in the PC caucus environment. They MUST follow and support party line, there is no other option. This is one distinct difference with the Wildrose. Our MLA's are free to speak their minds and they don't have to vote in unison on motions.
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aside from some social conservatives who clearly feel more comfortable with the Wildrose than they did with the PC's.
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Actually there are some social conservatives who are indeed more at home with the PC's now (as ironic as that sounds). They like the "social controls" the PC's have implemented. Higher taxes on cigarettes/liquor, limited happy hours, minimum drink prices, going towards zero tolerance drinking & driving, restrictions on where cigarettes can be sold, limited the number of VLT's in pubs, etc, etc.
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Originally Posted by RinkRat
Well for the first time in my fathers life he's not voting for the P.C's, probably something to do with sucking up to the teachers.....even after they had billions injected into their pensions. Yet the Special forces pension plan remains unfunded as all contributions were drained into general revenue and spent...
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He might enjoy this read. Pretty good laundry list of reasons the PC's need to go.
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/...medium=twitter