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Originally Posted by Slava
Thats all well and good, but some of that is just governing. Specifically the part about making a policy, seeing where its contentious and then tweaking it. Frankly speaking, I would prefer that to having it rammed down our throat despite any backlash.
Some of the comments are straight from the Wildrose playbook here as well. Bribing teachers? I don't know if you recall, over the past year parents paid hugely increased school fees as a result of the shortage of funding. So while you see that as a bribe to teachers I see that as restoring funding that shouldn't have been cut in the first place. I'm not a teacher, and other than what I think is proper funding for an education system that I care about I haven't seen any personal benefit either.
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Maybe the shortage of funding was because of the bribe. I'm sure you remember because I've explained it to you several times in this thread, but Stelmach bribed the teachers union into silence during an election by paying 2 BILLION dollars towards their agreed upon portion of their pension liability. No reason or rhyme to this payment, except for the PC's political gain.
Thats 2 billion dollars that could have gone to classrooms or school building, or anything.
You are referring to the 100 million that Allison Redford promised to 're-fund' from cuts in the budget to the education system. But thats only 1/20 of the bribe teachers got to plate their pension. But again it just proves that the PC's are really pandering to unions and their public employees to the detriment of taxpaying Albertans. That's why they've totally lost control of waste and spending, they just want power at any cost.