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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Frankly I think the worst of the worst is Ceci, the man is a idiot, he comes across as unprepared at the best of times, and he doesn't seem to want to listen.
I would say that Notley should be looking at a serious cabinet shuffle already because the underlying feeling is that the energy minister, Finance, and jobs are all in over their heads and floundering badly.
But if she does a shuffle we'll be left with even worse option in place.
If this government was a hockey team, they'd be the Oilers, little skill, no depth and uncoachable.
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I know Ceci personally. A good, smart and caring individual. He is definitely not an idiot. Also, he is definitely in a wrong post though. He should have taken the social services portfolio. The fact that he'd been given one of the two toughest posts (other being health) speaks about how unqualified the NDP roster was and still is. But we all know that. Notley can't shuffle the cabinet, she's got nobody.
One of the biggest budget shocks for NDP is not the oil. They knew about oil prices plunging. It's the income tax. I heard that they are getting $1B less income tax than they had estimated. This is soooo typical of a bureaucratic budgeting process. Someone says: "income tax was X. Let's increase it by Y% and budget X+Y%". Ooops, but the income dropped so high, there is no increase at all. OK, but instead of trying to help the business in the tough time, they think of taxing it more and add uncertainty by delaying royalty review and budget. The reality is, nobody in this government has a good understanding of how the business works and they didn't care to ask for advice. Ideology first. A recipe for disaster.