Alberta Politics Thread v2

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Has he said he is cancelling this?

I don't think he's even talked about it.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Has he said he is cancelling this?

To my knowledge he hasn’t made any commitments on keeping it, axing it or expanding it. My gut tells me expanding the program probably won’t be very high on his priority list though.

Originally Posted by Weitz

As if voting for anyone else will get us all that?

It’s unlikely to become universal over the next term regardless of who’s in office, but if I were to place a wager on who would get us closer to that I’d bet on the party that introduced and expanded the program throughout their term.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Not surprising. It's why they kept throwing Hoffman alone without Notley in front of bad news press conferences.

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I don't think its going to make a difference, except in Notley's own riding.

She threw Hoffman onto the Injection site crime explosion grenade yesterday. Can understand why she didn't want to be anywhere near that press conference to try to explain that.

[CaptainCrunch]

Alberta writ expected soon tomorrow is the first day that Notley can dissolve the government and call an election

https://twitter.com/user/status/1091098739144445952

https://twitter.com/user/status/1091093418946682881




https://globalnews.ca/news/4836550/a...2019-election/

s of Jan. 10, the United Conservative Party (UCP) led all provincial parties with 79 confirmed candidates out of 87 electoral ridings. The Alberta Party was in second with 54 and the governing NDP was in third with 34

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1091066661543698434


Joe McFarland
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@CalgaryToday

Replying to @jones_agi @jkenney
Not even a little bit. I hated it in the Prentice days & the Stelmach days & the Klein days & all the other days. It's not okay in my books to campaign on the taxpayer dime instead of party dime. #cdnpoli

[Jacks]

Has to be a historic low for a governing party with a majority to have less than half of the nominations done right before an election call. I'm guessing we'll see about 40 union shop stewards, coffee shop servers and environuts agree to run in the near future.


Good news is the nightmare is almost over.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Jacks

Has to be a historic low for a governing party with a majority to have less than half of the nominations done right before an election call. I'm guessing we'll see about 40 union shop stewards, coffee shop servers and environuts agree to run in the near future.


Good news is the nightmare is almost over.

Lol
Yeah man. ####ing union shop stewards and their wacky volunteer efforts and activism. Scum!

[Jacks]

They are placeholders so the party can say they ran a candidate in each riding. I never called them scum, don't be such an asshat all the time.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Jacks

Good news is the nightmare is almost over.

Depends who you ask. For me the nightmare is the market prices that stunted our industry. NDP was just easy lip service.

Looking forward to the successor party fixing everything that ails Alberta and getting back to double meat at Subway

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Depends who you ask. For me the nightmare is the market prices that stunted our industry. NDP was just easy lip service.

Looking forward to the successor party fixing everything that ails Alberta and getting back to double meat at Subway

Bring back the Lobster sub baby

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Looking forward to the successor party fixing everything that ails Alberta and getting back to double meat at Subway

It'll be a hard fix, not expecting miracles, looking forward to a party that stops digging.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by Jacks

It'll be a hard fix, not expecting miracles, looking forward to a party that stops digging.

Just to be clear, I doubt anything the next party can do will be anything but trimmings around the side of the problem. There is really nothing much more that the next party can do to dramatically bring down unemployment rates, improve the industry to pre-recession standards and get this province in the black. I do think there is a delusion among many Albertans that this will happen like a light switch.

I hope the people who vote for the next governing party realize that if they want the digging to stop, there is going to have to be serious cuts made that will impact their lives. Health, education, public services, environment - all of it. The gravy train stops and we're really going to have to look in the mirror.

[White Out 403]

Originally Posted by Jacks

They are placeholders so the party can say they ran a candidate in each riding. I never called them scum, don't be such an asshat all the time.

Please. Your mocking tone and "nightmare almost over" was a total insult to everyday people who want to get on involved.

[Jacks]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I hope the people who vote for the next governing party realize that if they want the digging to stop, there is going to have to be serious cuts made that will impact their lives. Health, education, public services, environment - all of it. The gravy train stops and we're really going to have to look in the mirror.

A lot of people remember the hard times that were needed to get the province back to fiscal sanity, it's going to take cuts no question.

Originally Posted by White Out 403

Please. Your mocking tone and "nightmare almost over" was a total insult to everyday people who want to get on involved.

Get over it, I said the word "union" and it was like a bat signal.

[Otto-matic]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1090994723383402497

https://twitter.com/user/status/1091120668073123840

[Ozy_Flame]

The same dentist James Trofimuk that was going to run for the UCP leadership.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...5000-entry-fee

[Mr.Coffee]

I have literally NO idea how anybody objectively calls what our provincial governance has been a “nightmare”.

If you don’t understand that our issue is a national or interprovincial one- you just don’t get it, or you’re not trying to get it, or you’re blinded into team politics. It doesn’t matter what the NDP do. Or what the UCP do. Or what the Alberta Party does. It doesn’t matter.

I have no idea who I’m going to vote for. I’ve never been a team politics guy. I’ll survey the field and make my decision closer to. I work in oil and gas and dearly want a resurrection to industry and Calgary, but that doesn’t mean I don’t believe the NDP hasn’t been trying to help. I think- it doesn’t matter. There are much greater agencies at stake working against us. Is Kenney, or the Alberta Party the ones to get us there? Notley?

I don’t think it matters, honestly. It’s a federal issue. It’s a national crisis.

People will eventually get it, it’s just sad that it’ll only be after our standard of living significantly slides to realize it. Some of these people that accepted money to fight against our industry should be in jail- honestly. Like- the seriousness should not be understated and we are into economic treason to be completely honest. These people aren’t Canadians. They don’t want the best for Canada. They don’t want the best for the environment. They want the best for themselves.

They should be in jail.

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

Please. Your mocking tone and "nightmare almost over" was a total insult to everyday people who want to get on involved.

Average people have no business being involved in topics they are not educated in, that's what is referred to as entitlement and how you end up with people who dont vaccinate their kids.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Jacks

A lot of people remember the hard times that were needed to get the province back to fiscal sanity, it's going to take cuts no question.

The NDP is telling anyone who will listen that Kenney is going to do Klein style cuts if elected. Back then public sector workers were hit hardest by his cuts so it's not hard to see why Notley is fearmongering.

I can see battle lines of reckless cuts verses reckless spending.

[Mr.Coffee]

Dion you are a “team politics” kind of guy. We know who you’re voting for.