Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by #-3

I'm pretty sure if you want a better relationship if your elected reps you only need to find a fund-raiser banquet they participating in. Money for access, no problem.

Because it works that way in the UCP political realm, logically speaking, Danielle thinks it will work in the medical realm.

[FlameOn]

Albertan's have been hardest hit by inflation under the UCP when compared to the rest of the country.

https://financialpost.com/executive/...flation-canada

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Albertan's have been hardest hit by inflation under the UCP when compared to the rest of the country.

https://financialpost.com/executive/...flation-canada

Must be an LPC conspiracy against Alberta.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

Albertan's have been hardest hit by inflation under the UCP when compared to the rest of the country.

https://financialpost.com/executive/...flation-canada

That’s a poor characterization of that article.

Essentially it’s says that Alberta had lower CPI inflation but also lower wage growth because it had an influx of immigrants from other parts of the country which has prevented job shortages from driving up labour costs.

Despite this it still leads the country in purchasing power.

If anything this is a Pro-Alberta argument.

[Faust]

Jason Markusoff @markusoff

!! Kenney was financing his leadership review defence campaign out of his Calgary-Lougheed constit association.
They raised $738,433 last year — an unheard-of sum for a party riding association.
And spent all but $1,300 of it.
All for a 51% support vote that forced Kenney out.

https://twitter.com/markusoff/status...842324993?s=21


Add this to the millions that sloshed around in UCP leadership, and that's a whole slew of Alberta donors who were capped out and couldn't give to the party's general coffers to compete with NDP's record hauls

https://twitter.com/markusoff/status...006838274?s=21

There's no natural place to fundraise/spend for a leadership review defence. Party? No. Leadership? It's not. PAC? No.
One's constit association seems a reasonable option. And woww what a haul for Team Kenney, all for naught.

https://twitter.com/markusoff/status...808345091?s=21

[puffnstuff]

Ran some errands this morning, saw signs up for two different ucp mlas in south Calgary that will be having town halls. One is my mla.
Should I go to it?

Just did some digging. The one my mla is having seems pretty quickly planned. Announced on their twitter an hour ago. And will be in two days, the 26th.
Will have the transportation minister there. Its advertised as being about Deerfoot Trail improvements.

Seems really campaigny. Gotta have it now so the govt pays for it before the election is called I guess.

[Julio]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

Ran some errands this morning, saw signs up for two different ucp mlas in south Calgary that will be having town halls. One is my mla.
Should I go to it?

Just did some digging. The one my mla is having seems pretty quickly planned. Announced on their twitter an hour ago. And will be in two days, the 26th.
Will have the transportation minister there. Its advertised as being about Deerfoot Trail improvements.

Seems really campaigny. Gotta have it now so the govt pays for it before the election is called I guess.

Exactly right. The same way that the gov't is putting up signs touting construction for schools that are in the planning stages.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by calculoso

More ramblings from Smith on how user fees in medicine are beneficial.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1649541931062661120

Nice to see the NDP already using this latest Smith self-own in their ads. This really should be the easiest campaign imaginable, all the NDP has to do is keep using Danielle's own words against her, and in any sane electorate the election would be a slam dunk. But Alberta has to 'berta and make this a close race when it has no right to be

[chedder]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

and in any sane electorate the election would be a slam dunk.

This is where it all falls apart, unfortunately.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by calculoso

More ramblings from Smith on how user fees in medicine are beneficial.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1649541931062661120

This is one of many reasons why I won't be voting for Smith or the UCP. You can't say one thing and do a total reverse and then expect voters to trust what where you stand on issues like health care.

I've talked to Smith on a number of occasions over the years and can't understand why she is flip flopping on so many issues. She has to know that that what she is doing is going to damage her reputation as a politician and most likely cost her party the upcoming election.

[Faust]

Smith declines to disavow comments urging out-of-pocket payments for health care:

https://lethbridgeherald.com/news/na...r-health-care/

[Reggie Dunlop]

Regardless of election outcome, Smith will be out as UCP leader within two years.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Regardless of election outcome, Smith will be out as UCP leader within two years.

I could see her stepping down within 6 months after losing the election. Party members will turn on her and basically force her out.

[AFireInside]

Originally Posted by Dion

I could see her stepping down within 6 months after losing the election. Party members will turn on her and basically force her out.

The real problem is that anyone can justify voting for this disaster of party and this joke of a leader.

Alberta is embarrassing. We whine that Quebec gets what they want while we vote for the same party no matter how terrible of a job they do.

Quebec gets what they want because their politicians know if they don't work for the people they're gone.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Dion

I could see her stepping down within 6 months after losing the election. Party members will turn on her and basically force her out.

If she loses the election she'll resign that night. No way a loser, who would be 95% responsible for the loss, is going to be able to stick around. Back to the choo choo train!

[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

If she loses the election she'll resign that night. No way a loser, who would be 95% responsible for the loss, is going to be able to stick around. Back to the choo choo train!

For sure. If Smith loses she won't be around long enough to make it into the legislature as opposition leader. If she doesn't quit on election night it will be in the first few days. There is nothing in it for her as opposition leader.

[Superflyer]

I could see it like this:
Smith loses the election but wins her seat
Tries to cross the floor to the NDP
Notley flips her the bird
Smith starts yelling that she never wanted to cross the floor anyway
Smith gets kicked out as leader after a few months for losing (that's the conservative way)
UCP vote someone even crazier in

[Geraldsh]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

I could see it like this:
Smith loses the election but wins her seat
Tries to cross the floor to the NDP
Notley flips her the bird
Smith starts yelling that she never wanted to cross the floor anyway
Smith gets kicked out as leader after a few months for losing (that's the conservative way)
UCP vote someone even crazier in

And Brian Jean keeps smiling, someday he will get his turn.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

If she loses the election she'll resign that night. No way a loser, who would be 95% responsible for the loss, is going to be able to stick around. Back to the choo choo train!

Sadly she's like Trump in many ways. Despite all the blunders she has committed these past few months she hasn't admitted to any fault on her part. A normal person would realize that comments made on health care in 2021 would come back to haunt them, but she doesn't seem fazed by any of that. The loss will be someone else's fault and not hers.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Geraldsh

And Brian Jean keeps smiling, someday he will get his turn.

Good Bye Frying Pan

Hello Fire