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Originally Posted by Cowperson
I remember touring the bowels of Calgary's city hall in the late 1970's and coming across Ralph in the media room in jeans, cowboy hat, his cowboy boots up on a chair, a smoke dangling from his lips and a beer in hand.
He really hasn't changed much.
Cowperson
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Better than that directionless stupid bureaucractic decisions wishy washy Dave BroncoBust.
I read an article about people favouring him for the Provincial Tory Leadership and I dread that day.
The fact is when Alberta was in major recession, after the mess Don Getty put us into, Ralph decided to cut and cut hard in 1993 and it saved Alberta long before the oil boom and helped us be less reliant on oil as well.
After 2001, he's back to King Ralph like he was when mayor here but I really don't mind. It was fun watching him stick it to the Feds. Being drunk with Clinton was great too.
I'm nowhere close to this "average joe Alberta cowboy" that maybe Klein represents to some people, far from it. But I respect his language and intelligence more than the other "country-boy" politician Bush. Politicians that don't pull punches and stay successful are good to see. Better a politician that's straight up about stupid things than one who lies and makes excuses.
Diversifiying Alberta's economy is a good thing, I don't agree at all with Firebug that we should "stick to what we're good at" just because of competitive advantage. Putting all your eggs into Agri and Oil is stupid. The IT industry is not inherently that regional. There's no reason Alberta shouldn't invest in something like that.
Reliance on one industry means you're screwed when things go bust. Don't you diversify your portfolios? What if you are a maritime province and doing what you're good at means that half your population is unemployed and ends up moving to Fort Mac?