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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Oh god. It is adorable that you think the purpose of the carbon sales tax was to make the price of alternatives competitive.  |
The funny thing well not so funny is that this gaff is going to most effect the people that are already struggling to pay their bills, If it comes straight out of the utility bills, the most vulnerable are going to get gouged.
The Sun actually had a guest column by one of the Minsters in the NDP government, I think industries, where he repeated Hoffman's arguments and then tried to argue that the NDP was here to protect Alberta businesses, basically from the evil big corporations.
In other provincial news, the AEUPE tells Notley not to go to war with them. I think that they realized that for Notley to get any kind of voter faith back that she's going to have to go after her own union voter base and play hardball with the Unions.
http://www.calgarysun.com/2016/07/29...cial-employees
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Guy Smith is the president of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees. He has a warning for this NDP provincial government.
Don’t go to war with the union. In contract talks, don’t try to whip up the public against the workers.
“I think that would be a fatal error. It’s a dangerous game. We’ve been to war with governments in the past. We’re not beholden to anybody. If it’s necessary we’ll do the same again,” says Smith.
“It’s not just a matter of pissing off the front-line workers. It’s about pissing off AUPE which I don’t think is very wise for any government to d
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I think that Guy Smith was one of the key note speakers at the recent NDP convention who wants to push for mandatory arbitration after I think two weeks, so that the union could in his words kick the crap out of companies and then not be locked out.
It looks like things are really falling apart for this government and its accelerating.