#PrenticeBlamesAlbertans is turning into a bit of a crap storm for the Premier.
Stems from comments he made in a CBC interview today.
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/...059/story.html
Quote:
“We all want to blame somebody for the circumstances that we are in,” Prentice said. “But the bottom line is we’ve had the highest cost and the best public services in the country, and we haven’t built, basically, a revenue model that sustains them.”...
...“In terms of who is responsible, we all need only look in the mirror, right. Basically all of us have had the best of everything and have not had to pay for what it costs,” he added...
...Wildrose critic Drew Barnes said he’s amazed the premier would blame all Albertans for the fiscal crisis since the Progressive Conservatives have been in power uninterrupted since...
...NDP critic Brian Mason said the PC government gave up billions of dollars in revenues by chopping corporate taxes by about a third a decade ago and by moving away from a progressive income tax system to a 10 per cent flat tax.
“I’m appalled that he would talk to Albertans like that, when it’s his government that’s made all of these key decisions all along,” said Mason.
“It’s a transparent effort to avoid accountability — and to blame the very people who are going to be hurt by his government’s incompetence is breathtaking.”
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My take is that the Premier is half right and completely tone deaf. Of course it's his own party's (43 years of) failed policies that are to blame, but we are the idiots that keep voting for those same short sighted policies over and over.