[Harry Lime]

This electorate is very poor at deciding what the relative importance of various issues are.

The American model of class warfare is to control the media, and bury embarrassing or high effect policy choices under a mountain of manufactured secondary issues. Canadians are getting better at this themselves, with Alberta leading the way.

Alberta sits upon one of the worlds most valuable resources, and we are running a deficit, with poorly maintained infrastructure. It would take some 'hard' policy decisions to be rolling in money by the end of the year. Instead we tax the population and manufacture talking points to move us away from reaping the rewards of our resources, or revisiting policy and taxation which has not developed as was intended.

It would be easy to just say that Alberta voters are dumb as all hell.

But what is the alternative to the perennially corrupt PCs? A couple of cartoon figures, in a far right Wildrose and a cardboard tax and spend Liberal. There is no one to vote for. It's Brewster's Millions.

What Alberta needs is a party that is fiscally conservative, socially liberal, and not afraid of corporate Alberta doomsaying. That the Liberals refuse to take up this mantel is almost bizarre in its stubborn adherence to what it means to be 'Liberal'.