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Originally Posted by Regorium
To be fair, I truly believe Notley had the best intentions in mind.
She's a smart woman. I feel bad because she truly wanted to compromise and do something good for all of Canada, but the other premiers took advantage and made her look weak and foolish.
We'll see how she responds.
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I think you're giving her a heck of the benefit of the doubt there. Though I guess it depends on what you mean by "best". I'm certainly not saying that things are playing out exactly like she wants it but it's hardly been a surprise to anybody with half a brain.
Don't forget this is her:
The person the NDP hired for the chief of staff to the Energy Minister is a lobbyist against pipelines as is the person running her communications and outreach. She isn't remotely advocating for the energy sector in Alberta with things like her declaration of Alberta being an "embarrassing cousin". The insistence of ramming through a royalty increase regardless of the economic situation along with its constant delays and lack of certainty for investment. And everybody knew that the extra 3 billion in self inflicted taxes and pain on businesses in Alberta wasn't going to sway any of the anti-oil forces, it was just going to burden the Energy sector even more.
I don't doubt that she's smart, none of this can possibly be a surprise to her.