Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Can you not counter that statement?

All you do is dish out a heavy dose of platitudes

Sorry, didn’t mean to insult your master. There might be a few of his posts left you haven’t thanked yet if you want to make up for my transgression.

Think you’ll hit 60+ today? Only a couple left.

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Sorry, didn’t mean to insult your master. There might be a few of his posts left you haven’t thanked yet if you want to make up for my transgression.

Think you’ll hit 60+ today? Only a couple left.

I still got a long way to go to dethrone the champ. I even had a 8 year head start on you.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

I still got a long way to go to dethrone the champ. I even had a 8 year head start on you.

One more for 60.

The night is young and you don’t ever seem busy. Why not make it 80?

You know. For the fans.

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

One more for 60.

The night is young and you don’t ever seem busy. Why not make it 80?

You know. For the fans.

Keep responding and you will get your wish!

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

Keep responding and you will get your wish!

Didn’t reply to your post in the first place, so I’m guessing you’ll get there just fine without me.

Do it for the fans, Mel.

80+

[Looch City]

Imagine trolling a random forum being the highlight of your week.

Pathetic lol

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Imagine trolling a random forum being the highlight of your week.

Pathetic lol

What if it’s only the highlight of your day/hour?

Asking for a friend.

[BoLevi]

Looks like Alberta might set up a public entity to buy all of the oil from the producers on paper before it is exported.

The Feds can't taxa province, so it would the their hands.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

Looks like Alberta might set up a public entity to buy all of the oil from the producers on paper before it is exported.

The Feds can't taxa province, so it would the their hands.

That would be a simple thing they could just come with on a whim. Oil doesn’t just go into a big bucket called oil and you get a price times the amount.

[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by fotze2

That would be a simple thing they could just come with on a whim. Oil doesn’t just go into a big bucket called oil and you get a price times the amount.

It would all be paper transactions.

[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by Whynotnow

I disagree entirely, that our goals are not aligned. Our goal should be to strengthen Canada globally, and yes Eastern politicians are part of the problem, but dint pretend we’ve had a string of big idea leaders and fence builders here in our fair province. It’s an uncomfortable truth to some that we also need to improve our standing in confederation, that starts with not throwing a fit every single time you can.

Smith's behaviour can be explained in two ways: she is destructively doing things to further her own personal agenda and grift. Nobody seems to want to say what the grift is. OR...her behaviour is consistent with the best interests of Alberta vis-a-vis the relationship with the US and that hurts peoples' brains. So they go with the "grift" argument to sort out the cognitive dissonance.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

Looks like Alberta might set up a public entity to buy all of the oil from the producers on paper before it is exported.

The Feds can't taxa province, so it would the their hands.

So you are saying independent oil companies would be forced to sell to a single buyer, the government? What is this, communism? Where's the freedom?

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

Smith's behaviour can be explained in two ways: she is destructively doing things to further her own personal agenda and grift. Nobody seems to want to say what the grift is. OR...her behaviour is consistent with the best interests of Alberta vis-a-vis the relationship with the US and that hurts peoples' brains. So they go with the "grift" argument to sort out the cognitive dissonance.

Third choice, she's a ####ing imbecile and doesn't have a clue what she is doing, how to negotiate, or what the actual best interests of Albertans are, because she doesn't listen to them or experts if they disagree with her.


Ya, going with that one. The evidence comes in a nice tube, kinda like, I dunno, Ivermectin I guess? Or is it hydroxychloroquine? Or natural cancer cures before stage 4. Or pardon powers for premiers. Or a tax cut. Or a 90 day promise to fix healthcare(tic..tic..). She's incompetent and only believes whatever rattles around her head, or what people like Rob Anders whisper in her ear.


If her opinions are so consistent with the best outcome for Alberta, why is it even Kenney and Harper think she is wrong? Do you disagree with them? Imagine siding with DS over, well, pretty much everyone with a functioning brain(yes, there I said Kenney has a functioning brain).

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

Smith's behaviour can be explained in two ways: she is destructively doing things to further her own personal agenda and grift. Nobody seems to want to say what the grift is. OR...her behaviour is consistent with the best interests of Alberta vis-a-vis the relationship with the US and that hurts peoples' brains. So they go with the "grift" argument to sort out the cognitive dissonance.

Her behavior is easily explained: she's incompetent.

Don't need to get much deeper than that.


(Turns out I need to hit refresh more often)

[Dogbert]

I suppose the conspiracy version would be that Trump wants to recreate the Russia/Ukraine playbook with Canada, and his meeting with Smith was to convince her to make Alberta the Donbass equivalent...

[GGG]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

The key point to realize in all of this is that Alberta's interests and the US's interests are more closely aligned than Alberta's interests are to the rest of Canada People find this to be an uncomfortable truth. But the blame for that lies squarely at the feet of Eastern Canadian politicians.

Your really going to have to explain this one when Transfer payments has the result of a rest of Canada recession end up ####ing Alberta over.

Unless of course separatism is your goal which means you should quit posting as if your opinion is “Alberta’s Interst” rather than “my interests”

[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by GGG

Your really going to have to explain this one when Transfer payments has the result of a rest of Canada recession end up ####ing Alberta over.

Unless of course separatism is your goal which means you should quit posting as if your opinion is “Alberta’s Interst” rather than “my interests”

The current version of Confederation is broken. To wit: your point on the transfer paymemts. Replacing Confederation is in the best interests of all Canadians.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by BoLevi

The current version of Confederation is broken. To wit: your point on the transfer paymemts. Replacing Confederation is in the best interests of all Canadians.

When did it break?

[Whynotnow]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

When did it break?

And as a follow up what are the solutions from these guys? They just stomp their feet, act mad and indignant but don’t offer a solution.

[Roughneck]

Stripping provinces of most of their powers would be a solution in the best interests of Canadians.