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Originally Posted by Canadianman
Man, what a crazy echo chamber this thread is.
Blaming the NDP for investment fleeing when oil prices tanked and we can't get our product to anyone except the US?
Being mad at the NDP for hiring people to avoid having a 20% unemployment rate?
Firmly believing that the party that held power for 50 years, didn't do anything to diversify our economy and didn't get any pipelines built to alternative markets is somehow the solution?
Holding your nose and assuming that the UCP doesn't really mean all of the crazy right wing crap they spew on a daily basis?
I don't love the NDP (didn't even vote for them) but Notley has been a great premier. If they had a name that didn't have NDP in it I suspect they would win the election.
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Oil prices had tanked globally when NDP took office, agreed. Oil prices have been depressed
locally as a result of no new export pipelines, all of which fell through under NDP's watch. No one is saying the PCs/WR could have gotten all or any built, but the NDP could have done a tonne more to help the situation rather than kicking the industry while it was down, and not doing anything to support pipelines until it was too late and she realized she needed to get re-elected. You don't throw the industry into chaos with a royalty review when things are already uncertain and in a low-price environment.
Don't let her support of the industry today fog over the fact she did a number of things to hamper the industry at a time when it needed help the most in the firs 2 years of their reign.
And also, please don't blame global oil prices. The last 3 years, global oil prices have been FANTASTIC. It is a great time in the O&G sector basically everywhere except Alberta where we're still in sad recession mode.
Worldwide and in the States they're getting triple meat on their subs, while here, we're getting 6-inch veggie subs.