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Originally Posted by Blaster86
I think it's always depended who is in charge for whether they take to the right or left. Id definitely call them center-left at this point.
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I think they campaigned centre left but actually governed more to the right. Honestly I think a lot of their economic policies are not so far off the old PC approach in Alberta, if people had got past their emotional reaction to the brand/Trudeau and elected 10-15 Liberal MPs I think Alberta would be holding the levers of power given Quebec backed away from the Libs and the party isn't that far off being aligned with Alberta interests, energy east is dead but they're going to push through TM and basically saved it. I know a lot of folks don't like the new approval process (which is fair) but I think that's an uphill slog for any party in the current environment. Even if you dream of separation all the FN groups out there and the sway they hold these days is going to make pipeline approvals really tough.
If Alberta wants in to the government, most Canadians want to see a more middle of the road approach and it's been said a lot but I think aside from taking a more proactive role inside the liberal party if the Conservatives were still PCs and had they'd be killing it right now as well. It just feels like a party where the inmates are running the asylum - outside of Alberta everybody's crazy loudmouth drunk uncle/aunt who likes to rant about "the government" is basically their mascot at this point. Nobody wants to hang around that guy - it's basically like spending a day on W. Brett Wilson and Theo Fleury's twitter feeds in real life.