Alberta Politics & Government Thread 3.0

[Slava]

Originally Posted by timun

Regarding Penner:



I think I accurately called that too.

Well you said that she'd probably do well, and that hasn't been the case. Wrong thread for this, but she's brutal.

[timun]

Originally Posted by Slava

Well you said that she'd probably do well, and that hasn't been the case. Wrong thread for this, but she's brutal.

What I meant was she'd do well in the election, which she did.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Premier shows she can work with carrots and sticks as well.

Everyone glossed over this part but how can you not understand this metaphor? You're using it improperly here and I don't understand how one could not grasp the proper use of these terms.

Carrots are rewards, sticks are punishments. Its a metaphor for a donkey and a cart.

There is no reward that the Premier can offer to the federal government... also I fail to see a threat she offers them.

EDIT: WAIT I understand. You think the Premier is the donkey. I agree.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Yoho

But nothing to argue the words said as usual. Who cares who posts it.

Originally Posted by Yoho

“From the comments”

Was listed in the post not “this is gospel”

I agreed with it but you don’t have to.

Sorry to have Triggered you.

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Everyone glossed over this part but how can you not understand this metaphor? You're using it improperly here and I don't understand how one could not grasp the proper use of these terms.

Carrots are rewards, sticks are punishments. Its a metaphor for a donkey and a cart.

There is no reward that the Premier can offer to the federal government... also I fail to see a threat she offers them.

EDIT: WAIT I understand. You think the Premier is the donkey. I agree.

The carrot is her ability to play nice if there is an open dialogue with the Feds.
What Alberta is doing is a very public and embarrassing open defiance to the Liberals.

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Sorry to have Triggered you.

By not defending your post?


You liking some other poster as a defence is hardly triggering.

[timun]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

Everyone glossed over this part

I gloss over everything the Twitter bot posts.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Yoho

The carrot is her ability to play nice if there is an open dialogue with the Feds.
What Alberta is doing is a very public and embarrassing open defiance to the Liberals.

You think that orders of government disagreeing creates embarrassment for governments? You really are just a cut rate authoritarian moron.

I agree with you, she is definitely embarrassing.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Monahammer

You think that orders of government disagreeing creates embarrassment for governments? You really are just a cut rate authoritarian moron.

I agree with you, she is definitely embarrassing.

Spoiler!

How embarrassing

[FireFly]

Originally Posted by Cappy

Spoiler!

How embarrassing

Are any of those politicians still in power?

[aaronck]

Originally Posted by Yoho

By not defending your post?


You liking some other poster as a defence is hardly triggering.

Hello is this pot calling?

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by FireFly

Are any of those politicians still in power?

Ford, and look how well that's going...

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Ford, and look how well that's going...

And Scotty Moe.

[PsYcNeT]

Can someone give me an example of a Con-run Alberta government in the last 40 years that played nice with the Feds?

No? They all pull the same pseudo-isolationist posturing without actually getting anything done for the province?

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Yoho

The carrot is her ability to play nice if there is an open dialogue with the Feds.
What Alberta is doing is a very public and embarrassing open defiance to the Liberals.

I am sure Liberal MP’s in Ontario and Quebec are quite concerned that it may appear that Justin Trudeau is fighting with Danielle Smith. That fact alone is so embarrassing that they may lose their seats. PP just needs to close the deal by running ads in Ontario highlighting his close relationship with Danielle Smith.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by GGG

That just isn’t true. Land use is a huge issue in every regulatory application where all stakeholders are engaged and the general requested to minimize the impact area.

Governments or special interest groups have not widely or consistently called out the Oilsands industry for its large land use.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

True, I even remember when the gov't shuttered the whole industry for a half year to figure out the simple fixes needed to stop the predictable scheme of selling clean-up liabilities to shell companies.

That's basically a whataboutism.

Their policy on renewables is absurd. That doesn't mean they should enact a similarly absurd policy on the oilsands, it means they should cancel the absurd policy on renewables.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by bizaro86

That's basically a whataboutism.

Their policy on renewables is absurd. That doesn't mean they should enact a similarly absurd policy on the oilsands, it means they should cancel the absurd policy on renewables.

What are you trying to say, renewable energy and the oil and gas economy are not in opposition to one another?

Crazy talk I refuse to believe it.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Yoho

By not defending your post?


You liking some other poster as a defence is hardly triggering.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by surferguy

Well the UCP keeps digging the hole…

Any day now they'll figure out they just need to start digging up.