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Old 05-30-2023, 05:01 PM   #1712
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Originally Posted by StickMan View Post
Don't forget that some people simply don't like Rachel Notley or the way she ran things last time. She froze non-union public sector pay for 4 years, and then implemented a surprise carbon tax to make everything more expensive during a downturn. That combination right there would be enough to lose peoples trust and cost her thousands of votes. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... Not going to happen.
The Carbon Tax wasn't a surprise, was it? We had a choice between implementing one ourselves or paying the Federal one, so Notley did the former. Kenney got rid of it and wasted our money fighting Ottawa and we got stuck with the latter.

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