Maybe when political parties stop trying to convince everyone that lowering taxes will get the debt paid off quicker?
Hopefully that will coincide with people realizing that capital is mobile and when people can do business in less hostile (or less incompetent) jurisdictions than Alberta and Canada, they will, and that means your higher tax rate can easily produce less revenue, and a lower rate can easily mean a smaller piece of a larger pie because the market fundamentals make sense for people deploying capital here, rather than Colorado, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Texas.
It is also important to note that many people are fine with seeing government slashed a bit, in exchange for fewer services. I can at least understand the segment who want to raise tax for everyone in exchange for more services, at least it's logical. The group that want more and want to pay less (or simply want others to pay more on their behalf) are pretty problematic and represent a significant amount of Canadian voters.
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I haven't had a chance to read it in depth, but I think it's more moderate than I was expecting. Personally, I would have loved to see a commitment to actual cuts in public service spending, but I get why they wouldn't want to propose that.
Is the Alberta party more socially progressive than the UCP? I did initially look at the UCP but a lot of the socially conservative values are making me feel that I can't vote UCP with a clear moral conscious.
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I was in the air on who I was supporting or even if I was going to vote at all, but this seals my vote for the NDP. Being IT you end up working a lot of after hours to get changes done, and having those banked at 1.5 was a huge help. UCP cancelling that for no other discernable reason than "NDP did it so it must be bad" is pathetic
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Is the Alberta party more socially progressive than the UCP? I did initially look at the UCP but a lot of the socially conservative values are making me feel that I can't vote UCP with a clear moral conscious.
What specifically are these social conservative values? I've been hearing this a lot but I haven't seen anything in their platform that I'd consider socially regressive.
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Postmedia clarified it was their misinterpretation, and indeed isn't a UCP policy.
Post media had reported that the change was to remove time and one half pay for all overtime(or something to that nature), and they later clarified that was not in the UCP platform. However removing time and one half compensation for banked overtime is absolutely part of the UCP platform.
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What specifically are these social conservative values? I've been hearing this a lot but I haven't seen anything in their platform that I'd consider socially regressive.
One would the the edcation act repeal which removes protections against GSAs. It also appears to give clear rights to parents to opt children out of certain aspects of educations and gives school boards more power to set carriculums.
Is the Alberta party more socially progressive than the UCP? I did initially look at the UCP but a lot of the socially conservative values are making me feel that I can't vote UCP with a clear moral conscious.
I guess it depends what you mean in terms of specific policies, but generally yes.
At the moment, the only substantive policy I have seen released by the UCP that affects social issues of the type you seem to be describing is their Education Plan, which would effectively un-do former Bill 24, "An Act to Support Gay Straight Alliances". Here is then-leader Greg Clark's statement about that bill when it was up for debate in 2017.
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44% for the ndp. Wow. That’s an even better result than what they got elected with. I guess the ndp is growing in popularity.
Looks like some strong growing support in rural alberta.
Maybe (I don’t recall what their percentage of Calgary votes was) but don’t forget that the dynamic of a significant vote split on the right is not a factor in this election, so arguably the NDP needs a higher share of the vote in some regions to hang on to seats.
I was in the air on who I was supporting or even if I was going to vote at all, but this seals my vote for the NDP. Being IT you end up working a lot of after hours to get changes done, and having those banked at 1.5 was a huge help. UCP cancelling that for no other discernable reason than "NDP did it so it must be bad" is pathetic
If you were willing to change your vote to a different party based on one policy out of over a hundred then you were never going to vote for the ucp anyway.
