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Originally Posted by Bend it like Bourgeois

Notley deserves every bit of blame for empty office towers and current economic woes.

The price crash in 2015 created a short term economic problem. Her decisions and policies made it a long term one by making Alberta a less stable and more expensive place to invest.

Worse, she utterly failed to protect Alberta’s interests with the feds. Her job was not to help support a national climate strategy and get a pat on the head from JT and eco lobbyists. Her job was to get the most for Alberta. She didn’t even try. There should have been significant returns for throwing in the towel on all but one pipeline, shuttering coal and de facto agreeing to buy B.C. hydro, implementing a carbon tax, capping the oil sands, and becoming the national patsy for emissions. If she supports it that’s fine, but her opening should still have been sure we’ll do all of that, for $XB a year in cash + expenses to help Alberta transition.

Instead she threw in every card and committed Albertans to pay for it, in exchange for a soft agreement to one pipeline in front of a slamming door on future prospects. That’s nuts.
Just imagine what Quebec would get if we asked them to shutter hydro or manufacturing. Do you think they’d be paying for it themselves?

Its not even just that. Canada, and Alberta in Particular have basically turned ourselves into a Banana Republic.

We've become untrustworthy. Because Licenses and government approval of projects have become meaningless.