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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
Of course they made the right decision. Only after the event was publicized and decided it wasn't worth the negative attention or reputational hit to their own fragile campaigns.
Not unlike the track record of the UCP cabinet, both of which Toews and Schulz were cabinet members. Try and push ideas and decisions on Albertans, public pushback, dial it back because it was bad policy.
No pushback = bad decisions being put in place.
Aheer and Sawhaney never confirmed, Schulz' and Toews did. That's a problem in and of itself, because lumping themselves in with this libertarian/seperatist are things that Albertans notice - which is exactly what happened when the event was publicly exposed.
They're not wrong for wanting to debate, but if there was no public exposure of the extremist elements of these organizers, Toews and Schulz would have attended.
You can make fun of the polling numbers for Sawhaney and Aheer, but its pretty clear who put more thought into this process.
If you're a politician campaigning for office, or the campaigns that manage them, then you better understand the consequences of entertaining crowds like that, because Albertans pay attention.
Conservatives love to make corrections only after getting caught. Especially in Alberta.
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Let’s not waste too much time arguing about the people who pulled out. Don’t turn your attention away from the ones who attended for even a second. Especially Smith who says she’s ‘aligned’ with the APP but ‘willing to give Canada one more chance’. Damn these people…we’re all Canadians.