Who are you voting for

[Coys1882]

The one thing which worries me about the NDP is that they have been traditionally very pro-union. Is that still the case?

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

The one thing which worries me about the NDP is that they have been traditionally very pro-union. Is that still the case?

Well, their leader's former position was as counsel to various labour unions.

[FlameOn]

Originally Posted by Coys1882

The one thing which worries me about the NDP is that they have been traditionally very pro-union. Is that still the case?

Not sure about this. Current NDP is running on a platform to significantly cut contribution limits from corporations and unions. The other thing is from anecdotal sampling of people I know that are part of unions, their unions did not instruct them to vote for a particular party just to take the time and GOTV.

I am working with only a sample size of five people though so I might be off there.

[GGG]

Pretty neat that outside some extra support of liberal/AP calgary puck pretty closely tracks Alberta. Surprising as season ticket holder skew is into higher income and being a hockey site skews us male and younger.

[Bunk]

Originally Posted by GGG

Pretty neat that outside some extra support of liberal/AP calgary puck pretty closely tracks Alberta. Surprising as season ticket holder skew is into higher income and being a hockey site skews us male and younger.

We are the fricken bellwether

[Property Manager DB]

Originally Posted by GGG

In addition to the predictions and discussion thread I thought it would be interesting to see how CP compares to the actual results.

I have made the poll private so the public can't see how you voted not sure about mods.

Your unofficial vote had the winner picked correctly but not that it would a a majority..

[Hack&Lube]

I voted PC out of "the devil you know better than the devil you don't" and the generally ambiguous fears of a government potentially less friendly to the O&G industry in the current environment.

That said, I don't regret this anymore after seeing Jim Prentice's behavior. I met him once during the early campaign days (when he was gearing up for the leadership bid) and opportunism just dripped off him. Instead of doing his duty and living up to the mandate the people elected him to, he turns tail and runs back to private practice/private business rather than do his public service.

[polak]

Prentice seems like the worst possible leader for the PC's. He sure hasn't done them any favors.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Slava

This isn't really the place for this discussion, but how do you juxtapose our reliance on oil for its chemical uses? In other words, sure we can run cars and houses on solar power, or compressed gas, but look around you. Almost everything you see and probably whatever you're looking at this on is made of petroleum products or by-products. Even a lot of what we eat these days has to be factored in. In theory this "stop using oil" message sounds amazing, but like a wise man once said on TV "Communism works...in theory!"

Agreed, kind of the wrong forum.

I don't think I was advocating that there will be some switch that goes off, or that it will be completely eliminated. But A time will come sooner than allot of Albertans think, but much further than allot of BCers think, were oil is not a mega industry.

I think things are starting to develop where Solar or Wind generation are actually fiscally responsible ideas, and they have allot more room to grow. So when I talk about post-oil I guess I mean a point in time where Oil Production alone is not enough to drive an economy the size of Alberta. Like I said Storage is a bigger problem than generation, but we are starting to see the innovations, now we just need the industrialization of those innovations (that's what the Tesla factory is about).

In Terms of Chemicals or Plastics, I think Live organic options will slowly over take mining/drilling options, but may never replace it. Look at something like paint, you couldn't make paint without oil 30-40 years ago. Now the majority of the home market uses water based with plant oils rather than petroleum. Organic Bio Plastics from contemporary plants exist, and may be cheaper than petro based plastics one day. I'm not in any of these industries so I am mostly a casual observer, but it's easy to see that change is starting to happen faster and faster.