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Old 12-17-2014, 04:54 PM   #357
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken View Post
To be the official opposition, you have to want to take down the premier?

Is anyone else as perturbed by that revelation?

No, to be the official opposition, you should want to enact and contribute to the best policy for albertans.
That is a very poorly worded grain of truth, actually.

The role of the Official Opposition is to hold the government to task. Given a majority government has carte blanche to do what it likes, that effectively reduces the real world role of the opposition to trying to chop the government off at the knees.

They all do it, Smith was evidently just a little more blunt about it than one would think prudent.
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