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Originally Posted by Parallex
Seriously, this is a bad thing... 9 people can not effectively hold a government to account (not that 25 really could either but it's better then 9) and that's bad for everybody.
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Hard to disagree with your overall argument, but those 25 got the affable but bumbling Stelmach out, then helped (with a lot of internal support from PCers themselves) cut down Redford.
So in that respect, yes they held the government accountable.
I don't really like the idea of a merger for the reason you argue - it leaves the province without anything approaching effective opposition. That really only moves us back to status quo ante, however, as Alberta has generally always lacked effective opposition.