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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I have a couple take aways here, the first being that the conservatives did campaign on multiple topics which were proportionally more beneficial for the west (carbon tax scrapping, pipelines to the east) before the liberals did the same. To say they did not try for the Albertan vote seems misguided, a read through the conservative platform would prove that wrong.
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And secondly, is your issue with the Conservative Party overlooking AB or is it every party overlooking AB due to representation levels? The tone I took from your post points to the latter. We as Albertans aren’t the big electoral fish in Canada, never have been, but thanks to the Cheeto In Command the rest of Canada is now warming up to policy which would benefit us in a major way. Luckily politicians of both LPC and CPC seem to understand that, and I hope we can all benefit from it. |
That isn't exclusively a western or Albertan issue; you can find a plurality of Canadians coast-to-coast who thought we should ditch the carbon tax (whether it was wholesale or just the part we could
actually get rid of without kneecapping trade). But the point is that by and large, AB's votes aren't available to earn. CPC can say whatever and AB will eat it up, doesn't even matter how much of the stuff in their platform they would have had to abandon or dramatically alter due to the fact that at least some of it
isn't possible.
My issue is with every party overlooking AB, but only a small portion of that is down to representation, and a much bigger part is because we Always. Fuсking. Vote. Blue. You can't earn Alberta's votes because they aren't available. As Bring_Back_Shantz succinctly put it, Alberta continues to show that -- as an electorate -- it has no idea how to influence federal politics.