[CaptainCrunch]

Its a hard column to read, especially since it wasn't one written in the Sun, but written in the more centric to left Herald.

But he's absolutely right on a few major points.

Notley has to forget her ideology at this point and forget the term NDP, but I doubt she can. This is a woman that delayed a bad budget because it would harm Mulcair's chances. This is a leader that allowed NDP MLA's to go and campaign in BC for the BC NDP while jobs were being lost. This is a leader that actively went and helped raised money for the anti-oil Ontario NDP party.

Realistically she's only really made one good decision and that was to not change the royalty rates, however she did incredible harm to the province and the industries confidence by dragging out the obvious.

She's held onto Ceci for way to long, he's incompetent in the finance file, and nobody believes that he has the slightest clue in terms of what he's doing.

Since Trudeau left here, he delivered the money promised to this province by Harper and the really nothing stabilization fund. Since then he's done his best to ignore or bury any discussions about helping this province.

Someone on this board asked me the question of what good a fight would do because it hadn't worked in the past. However at this point, Notley has to be asking the question every day of the Feds, when are you going to do something about the EI extension, when are you going to start talking about our industry and the pipelines that we need.

Every day, Notley needs to be basically talking to, cajoling and reminding the other provinces that this province matters, and to quit kicking us when we're down.

When Trudeau's old man tried to destroy this province, the Premier woke up and fought that jerk (and he was a jerk) every single day. He made it his mandate to scrap, and argue and embarrass the federal government and make them understand that this province matters.

Now its Notley's turn, and if she can't get into this fight, then she needs to resign, its that simple.

I know that she's got a majority government, but frankly if she has a spec of integrity, she needs to look at what she's doing and decide if she can get off of her own agenda and fight. If she can't then don't spend 3 more years doing irreparable harm, and then follow it with the NDP's reduction to rump party status.