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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
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.
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Yeah, I think those are all fair criticisms and go back to what Slava and I both said about the catch-22 for political experience. I don't think voters could give the PCs another term just because they had more experience, as even with that experience they'd been tremendously incompetent for a number of years, and the WRP had probably the same amount of experience as the NDP.
There also seems to be a few people who want to have their cake and eat it too. When the NDP are slow to move on things, they freak out and accuse the NDP of stalling. When they start moving more quickly to implement their plans, then people accuse them of being too hasty.