Its a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people speak about Alberta as if it is monolithically conservative. Please don't presume that you speak for every Albertan.
And this is exactly why we need proportional representation. There are Liberals and Conservatives in *every* province. Our current system both federally and provincially does nothing to reflect this. PR would go a long way to cure the ails of regionalism and I think alleviate much of the discord we see in politics.
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I think all the uhhs in Ron's little clip there make me think he knows he's about to say something he's going to regret, but he can't stop himself anyways.
And yes please to proportional representation. One of the few things the US does better politically than we do (at least in congress)
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How many elections did it take Harper to realize he had to effectively muzzle all the radicals in the CPC slate of candidates before he could win? You'd think Danielle's team would have picked up on that lesson.
Give the WRP credit for running a slick campaign that focused solely on the strengths of the party leader, but you had to know it was only a matter of time before individual candidates went under the microscope. If the NDP had ever been polling in the front runner position last federal election, you can be sure their inexperienced parachute candidates in Quebec would have faced the same fate.
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I think I mentioned before, the Wildrose is lucky the election is next week. If it were in a month Smith might be one of the few to actually get a seat
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I'm guessing that that quote locks up the win for incumbent Manmeet Bhullar in Calgary-Greenway.
I think that Bhullar would have won anyway, based on the number of signs that I've seen up.
That quote is really disappointing knowing the multiculturalism in the area, and how little colour or religion seems to matter to most people in the area.
Sadly this guy appears to have a strong following in my riding. I was fairly frustrated when he came to our door and he initially tried to convince me to vote for him based on the fact that I'm filipino. He said something along the lines of: "Are you Filipino? Ahhh you are? You know, a lot of the Filipinos are voting for me. I've been there 19 times bla bla bla..." He was saying this as if it was going to sway me to vote for him just because people who share the same culture as me are voting for him.
Firstly, that turns me off from the beginning. I want to know about your plans for the riding and the actual details of policy. Don't treat me like some uninformed citizen who's simply going to base my vote off racial factors. Only after I insisted on actual policy details did he actually attempt engage in that discussion.
I was a little neutral in regards to the Wildrose at first, but I have to admit, candidates like this turn me off. There's a real concern with types of people we're going to have running the government should they win. Don't get me started about their political experience. Only a handful of the party actually have any. Who the heck is going to fill the cabinet? Do we really want inexperience leading the province through such a significant period of growth and prosperity?
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How many elections did it take Harper to realize he had to effectively muzzle all the radicals in the CPC slate of candidates before he could win? You'd think Danielle's team would have picked up on that lesson.
Especially considering it's kind of the same team....
Actually, I think they tried. And we don't know about the near misses. And I know Resolute14 will take issue with this, but to me, that's the scary part.
The size of government has nothing to do with fiscal conservatism. That whole "size of government" has more to do with the belief that less beauracracy = more liberty and freedom. Fiscal conservatism, at least to me, is maximizing the effciency of every tax payer dollar spent, in essence doing more with less.
Hey new guy, I thought I'd jump in here and thank you for making this thread unreadable!
You are crying wolf about your own projections proving wildrose projections wrong, but you have no proof one way or another. You use the other parties as 'proof' but they don't have anything but a guess as well. Three guesses doesn't mean a better guess.
We also know the Liberal and PC budgets are based upon faulty projections, but you fail to equivocate those.
There's no way to satisfy you, but claiming one parties assumptions are real and anothers aren't is just silly.
You can satisfy me. Just tell me how the Wildrose will do it and leave the other parties out of it. Their platform should be able to stand on its own, without the need to tell me how they can pull this one off.
I think all the uhhs in Ron's little clip there make me think he knows he's about to say something he's going to regret, but he can't stop himself anyways.
And yes please to proportional representation. One of the few things the US does better politically than we do (at least in congress)
I did have a little question in my mind about whether the quote is him trying to say something a whole lot less offensive but coming out really, really bad. I do get the feeling sometimes that there are some people in the area that vote for the candidate of their own religion, no matter what party they represent. Perhaps Leech was trying to point that out (not that he should be trying to point that out anyway), and it went totally wrong.
I did have a little question in my mind about whether the quote is him trying to say something a whole lot less offensive but coming out really, really bad. I do get the feeling sometimes that there are some people in the area that vote for the candidate of their own religion, no matter what party they represent. Perhaps Leech was trying to point that out (not that he should be trying to point that out anyway), and it went totally wrong.
I just noticed that Leech was contrasting two religions with an ethnicity. Maybe he meant to say that as a Christian, he believes he can speak to all the community.
After watching that, i do wonder more about whether Leech's quote was just a comment gone totally wrong. Perhaps he was trying to say something like this: "I already have connnections to people of all groups, so I can better represent this riding than the others". However, adding "caucasian" into his quote is where he went wrong.
I don't feel quite as bad about the quote after watching the video, but still, its certainly bad publicity.
If you don't like what he's posting, ignore it or use the ignore feature.
If you disagree with the points he's making, argue the point, don't target the poster.
If you think he's violating the forum rules, then report the post, don't make posts like this.
My apologies... I was frustrated with the insane amount of his argumentative posts in here making this thread unreadable for me personally. I will refrain in the future from such drivebys.
My apologies... I was frustrated with the insane amount of his argumentative posts in here making this thread unreadable for me personally. I will refrain in the future from such drivebys.
Honestly you have nothing to apologize for. You're entitled your opinion, and as I said before I can take a little name calling and put downs. Its all good man.
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