[Dion]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

Sure, that was dumb. But on the scale of dumb, it's letting your kitten play in a pile of toilet paper rolls vs giving your 4 your old keys to a bulldozer and surrounding it with luxury vehicles.

How about this....

For example, on a key campaign promise of 2,000 new public long-term care beds over four years, the NDP faltered. The beds were indeed provided, but the vast majority came from for-profit corporations through a PC-era program.

They introduced a $15 minimum wage, but failed to end employers’ power to compel overtime, or prevent construction firms from evading union agreements.

They kept post-secondary tuition frozen, but didn’t “fund higher education in any extensive way and shift the responsibility back to government.”

Parkland Institute director Ricardo Acuña, writing in Alberta Views in 2019 (“What They Did”), highlighted the fiasco of Bill 6 in December 2015 as a turning point for the NDP government.

The bill extended workplace health and safety provisions, including workers’ compensation coverage, to farm workers. But whatever merits it had were overshadowed by its bungling “from conception to drafting to rollout. Having barely consulted farmers, the NDP was startled by the fierce blowback from them, which the opposition duly took advantage of.

https://www.sprawlcalgary.com/did-th...with-its-power