Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Fighting Banana Slug]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Missed a lot of this thread.
To summarize for those of you who missed it as well. PP says he doesn’t agree with APP. That means he is pandering to the far right (even though Trudeau says the same). Also PP doesn’t agree with Smith on this, therefore he is a bad leader.

Edit: also, this is in the Alberta politics thread. Seems his popularity is rising everywhere.

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

That’s not very honest of you.

I’m the only one who mentioned pandering to the far-right, and I said not supporting APP was evidence of him not pandering to the far-right.

The leadership comment was also completely divorced from any commentary about whether he agrees with Smith or not.

And to add, I questioned PPs leadership, assuming he would pander to Smith. To his credit, he made the right choice. None of what you said is remotely true.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Muta

Dion - from the picture thread many moons ago, I distinctly remember you looking like Macho Man Randy Savage (which is frickin’ awesome), so maybe she was starstruck

Gawd I hope not. You should see her without all that makeup on. Yikes!

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Dion

I thought about walking up and giving her my piece of mind about the APP fiasco but my friend suggested making a scene in public was not a good idea.

That’s the worst(or maybe just the least entertaining) advice I’ve ever heard in my life.

Time to make some new friends Dion.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

But I heard that some far left voters are switching to far fight. Maybe he is coming for the far left voters too!!

So one mythical unicorn metamorphosing into another?

[Dion]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

That’s the worst(or maybe just the least entertaining) advice I’ve ever heard in my life.

Time to make some new friends Dion.

I don't have any friends

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

ok.

Careful. He might be coming for your vote next. You know the NDP supporter who votes Liberal.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

Careful. He might be coming for your vote next. You know the NDP supporter who votes Liberal.

I can see you’re trying really hard to get into some banter and I’m not really sure why.

[Doctorfever]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I can see you’re trying really hard to get into some banter and I’m not really sure why.

Banter? Ok.

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan

To be honest, I don’t see how the APP fiasco tells us anything about Poilievre, one way or the other. He’s likely to be our next PM based on polling, but that has nothing to do with Danielle Smith or the APP and everything to do with Justin Trudeau.

I give him credit for taking a stand on it, but in the end Poilievre made the only statement he ever could make about the APP, and in doing so he revealed what a terrible strategy pushing this agenda really is. It is so unpopular that even the UCP’s closest allies federally and in other provinces can’t and won’t support it. In trying to “stick it to the feds”, Smith has succeeded in isolating the Alberta government and the Alberta conservatives on the wrong side of an issue that everyone in Canada (including in Alberta) disagrees with her about.

This is basically political malpractice. Even if the real agenda is something different from the APP, Smith has gained no leverage with anyone and has made herself look weak and out of touch. She’s not even playing checkers here—it’s basically Ludo and she’s missing half the pieces.

Maybe when the Cons are in power Federally we will worry about what they say. Until then it’s full sped ahead with the liberals in this game of uncomfortable chicken. Smith hardly looks weak when the Prime minister goes out of his way to cry about it.

I get it it’s too much heat for you this is big boy politics. This is literally the only language the liberals know MONEY.

[Roughneck]

So we can't trust the Cons that what they say before an election will match what they say after?


Really is a wonder how all that 'hidden agenda' talk ever got any traction.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Maybe when the Cons are in power Federally we will worry about what they say. Until then it’s full sped ahead with the liberals in this game of uncomfortable chicken. Smith hardly looks weak when the Prime minister goes out of his way to cry about it.

I get it it’s too much heat for you this is big boy politics. This is literally the only language the liberals know MONEY.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Roughneck

So we can't trust the Cons that what they say before an election will match what they say after?


Really is a wonder how all that 'hidden agenda' talk ever got any traction.

“Cons” has double meaning.

[Wormius]

Smith looks weak when nobody, including her conservative counterparts in Ottawa, want to touch this APP pet project with a 100 foot pole.

[puffnstuff]

If the cons get elected federally (eew) who will busboobs fight with then?

[timun]

Fascists consider anyone who disagrees with them to be enemies, thus the UCP will always find an "other" to blame. They'll manufacture an enemy if they have to.

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Maybe when the Cons are in power Federally we will worry about what they say. Until then it’s full sped ahead with the liberals in this game of uncomfortable chicken. Smith hardly looks weak when the Prime minister goes out of his way to cry about it.

I get it it’s too much heat for you this is big boy politics. This is literally the only language the liberals know MONEY.

What game of chicken? Smith can't just decide that she's taking the money and going ahead with the APP. She's committed to a referendum (at the very least), and public support for this seems to be extremely low.

Then she's got this idea that Alberta is taking half the money, and that's clearly not happening just because she wants that to be the case.

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

If the cons get elected federally (eew) who will busboobs fight with then?

As Kenney did with Notley, just continue to blame them for past, current and future problems they caused themselves...Also

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/...ails-to-launch

It’s questionable that the Alberta government’s taxpayer-funded energy war room would try to sway the votes of Nanaimo city councillors in B.C., but the competency of the Canadian Energy Centre is even more questionable. The CEC claimed to have sent 2,452 letters to Nanaimo city council but none arrived before the zero carbon step code successfully passed third reading vote on Sept. 25. In fact, only 24 emails showed up in our inboxes — before final reading on Oct. 16.

[Superflyer]

One thing I have to say, whoever is in charge of advertising for the UCP and their stupid electricity and pension commercials is doing a bang up job. They are by far the most seen\heard commercials I notice on TV\Radio\Spotify\YouTube.......
They really want us to believe them and are thowing all they can at them.

[MoneyGuy]

Every podcast I’ve listened to the last few weeks has had one or two of those annoying ads.

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Superflyer

One thing I have to say, whoever is in charge of advertising for the UCP and their stupid electricity and pension commercials is doing a bang up job. They are by far the most seen\heard commercials I notice on TV\Radio\Spotify\YouTube.......
They really want us to believe them and are thowing all they can at them.

Ladies and gentlemen, our tax dollars at “work”!