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Originally Posted by rubecube
Except there was no way anything with the even remotely related to the federal Liberal brand was going to be successful in provincial politics after the 80s. My point was largely along the lines of what Slava said.
To your point about Ceci though, I think that's more of an indictment of Notley for handing him a portfolio that he clearly isn't comfortable with. The article that was posted also seems to indicate it wasn't one he wanted either.
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Not really, Joe Ceci as finance minister is an indictment of the NDP in general. It's not like Notley even had choices for finance minister. None of them are even remotely qualified to be Finance Minister and few if any are qualified to be cabinet ministers at all. Ceci being probably the strongest candidate to be a cabinet minister based on his political experience out of a field of 1 or 2 others was named finance minister essentially by default. This despite knowing absolutely nothing about finances or capital markets (Judging by his comments after the S&P downgrade I believe this to be true).
The scale and the pace of changes, Carbon tax, Bill 6, in light of this mass-incompetence/inexperience at the governing party level is why the NDP are being grilled in this thread and in the public. The carbon tax specifically irks me because they are depending on the likes of Joe Ceci to properly invest $3 Billion annually into 'green technology.' That's a task that thus far no one in the globe has proven to be good at yet, let alone by a merry band of unqualified misfits. Don Braid had it right when he highlighted that the problem is that Notley is moving too fast on their agenda for the sensibility of the electorate and the talent/experience level of her people.