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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
However, the institutional employment hasn't changed. And the attitude of many of the workers is that they sacrificed salary for job security during the boom.
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Sacrifice salary? So the salaries of public sector employees in this province haven't gone up far faster than inflation over the last 15 years? And teachers and nurses don't make tens of thousands of dollars a year more than their counterparts in other provinces?
Sorry, but if Alberta public sector workers are too dumb to recognize the tremendous gains in compensation they've enjoyed due to the O&G industry in this province, then I don't have any sympathy. They can move to Manitoba and see how much they enjoy it.
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Originally Posted by c.t.ner
While I agree on the principal that the WRP needing to sweep their rural base and also one of edmonton/calgary to win, the big wildcard with that is that electoral boundaries are to be reconfigured before the next election ( http://www.elections.ab.ca/resources...ommission-act/). Given that the NDP are in government AND that there is a stark balance between many rural seats (some only representing ~15K people) and urban seats (some representing ~45K people), there are rumours that we'll see more urban seats and less rural seats created for the next election. There is also the possibility that we'll see a reduction in the overall number of seats, which may shift some of the balance to urban centres and away from rural alberta. |
About the only thing I'm optimistic about with the NDP regime is that they'll finally address the disproportionate power rural voters have in this province. If the WR get in, we'll see rural votes continue to be worth 2-3 times as much as urban votes. That's an embarrassment to democracy, and a gross distortion of the will of the citizens of this province.