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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
That's a strange response. Haven't we gone over this in the Canadian politics thread that it doesn't matter what any Conservative leader says that they won't touch those issues that many just don't believe them nor trust them. I just don't trust her. That's not a lie.
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The issue a lot of people have with conservative leaders is that they say a lot of horrible things during their leadership campaigns, and then when they get elected they say "Oh don't worry about that, I was just saying that to get the leadership". Now that I've got that, I'll totally govern in a reasonable way, pinky swear, now please vote for me in a general election. PP doesn't have any sort of track record for us to trust him that he won't follow through on his more hairbrained ideas.
Danielle Smith did the same thing , after she won leadership she promised to rein things in, but here we are with a stupid Alberta Sovereignty act.
In the case of Rachel Notley, your saying you don't trust her. Why?
She's show us how she will govern. She worked with Ottawa to actually get some pipeline access built. She improved the royalty framework, which is a benefit to industry and the province.
So from an economic standpoint, she's shown us how she will govern. Do you think she'll pull an about face on that?
Why don't you trust her? What specifically has she done that makes you think she's untrustworthy?
Just about everything she's turned around on, have been exactly the kind of things UCP voters would want (and in a lot of cases aren't things the UCP would actually do), but at least she's owned it and can explain why she's turned around on it.
Hell, if there's anyone who shouldn't trust her, it's the real hard core federal brand NDP supporters.
She's shown herself to actually be pretty "Conservative" when it comes to economics (let's not get into the fact that Conservative governments do not handle the economy in the way most conservative voters think "Conservative" means), and from a social perspective she's certainly more progressive than the UCP.
At this point, if you go by actual policy, the NDP are way closer to being Progressive Conservatives than the UCP.
At this point the UCP, might as well just change their name to Wildrose Party. Actually, that might be a really good idea, might be the best way to get Danielle to leave the party.