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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois
While the WRP loses its nut on the right, the nuts on the left are having their convention in Calgary.
Resolutions to end pipelines & fracking, and the usual party stuff. The interesting one to me is calling to secede from the federal NDs. If that gets any air it could have some federal repercussions. They won't like the colonies getting all independent, and I wonder if that makes things like the leap manifesto weaker or stronger nationally.
im also curious if and how strongly they reaffirm minimum wage commitments. Behind closed doors a few are starting to get the damage they are causing, but the rank and file and some of the leadership are still looney lefters who might be looking to push harder, not back away.
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I don''t get why anyone is surprised at stuff like this in their conventions. The bottom line is the NDP in Alberta is and always has been a fringe lunatic party party of whacko's and tea kettle socialists, and they managed to ride a corrupt and tired party and a incompetent opposition party to a surprise election result.
In the end as they keep pushing forward with their lunacy they'll revert back to being a single digit seat after thought party and history will be unkind to them, and even worse for them, they'll be held up in every election campaign coast to coast about what happens when you let the NDP get a hold of your government, they might not wreck your province in the first year or even the first term, but they can't help their arrogance and theoretical sense of social economics. The Alberta NDP are just an example of how quick they can go completely dumb.