Alberta Politics Thread v2

[transplant99]

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Just got off the phone with a major rail shipper of oil, who tells me the NDP’s $4 billion rail boondoggle appears to be *twice* the current market rate for oil by rail.

I call on the NDP to release the terms of its secret $4 billion deal immediately. What do they have to hide?

[Dion]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1098285479659589632

[Lubicon]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Kenney announces that if elected all MLA's will take a 5% paycut and the Premiere 10%.


More symbolic then anything else.

Even better if he announced a reduction in the number of MLA's we have for the province. 83 seems excessive, 50-60 would be more my preference.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Dion

https://twitter.com/user/status/1098285479659589632

Yay more ucp advertising propaganda from Dion again!
Thread is ramping up!!

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Even better if he announced a reduction in the number of MLA's we have for the province. 83 seems excessive, 50-60 would be more my preference.

Took a quick look by province. Alberta and B.C. actually have 87 each I believe. B.C. with a slightly higher population but ballpark MLA/capita.

Ontario and Quebec each have ~125, but triple and double the Alberta population, respectively.

Manitoba and Saskatchewan each have ~60, but about a fourth of the population so a much higher per capita.

Newfoundland with 40 is pretty crazy. It has 40, so roughly half as many as Alberta but a 10th of the population. Our MLA's represent roughly 50,000 people while a MHA in Newfoundland represents about 13,000.

[KevanGuy]

Yay another Johnny Makarov drive by!
Thread is ramping up!!

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by transplant99

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Just got off the phone with a major rail shipper of oil, who tells me the NDP’s $4 billion rail boondoggle appears to be *twice* the current market rate for oil by rail.

I call on the NDP to release the terms of its secret $4 billion deal immediately. What do they have to hide?

Ha. He is getting rightly skewered for that information-less post.

[Robbob]

Have they actually dropped the writ for the election yet or do we have to go through weeks of this plus the actual election?

[PsYcNeT]

Many people are saying, many people, they're talking.

[Wiggum_PI]

Breakenridge: Alberta's corporate tax grab has gone missing in political debates

The NDP has never really argued for why the rate increase was necessary and it’s hard to see what it achieved. One can at least point to some defined objectives or perceived outcomes for the carbon tax and the minimum wage increase, but not on this policy.

It was likely a simple revenue grab, but raising corporate tax rates is probably the least efficient and most economically damaging way of trying to do that. Perhaps not surprisingly, not much was grabbed in the way of new revenues.

It has certainly imposed a cost on businesses (which is the point, I suppose) and that cost has predictably been passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices and workers in the form of lower wages. The University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy pegs the annual cost of the corporate tax increase at $830 per two-income household.

[Regorium]

Originally Posted by iggy_oi

The federal carbon tax will end up being implemented in Alberta if we don’t have our own, assuming the liberals remain in office at the federal level. So we’ll keep paying it(or more) but instead of those funds remaining in Alberta they would go to the federal government.

I definitely prefer the federal implementation where it is supposedly universal and revenue-neutral.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by KevanGuy

Yay another Johnny Makarov drive by!
Thread is ramping up!!

He's been called out before and said he would ramp it down. Or is posting a 1 pic advertising post with no comment A-OK with everyone on here?



Gross!!! I need to take a shower now.

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

He's been called out before and said he would ramp it down.

Oh good, the Posting Police are here to tell us what to do.

[MoneyGuy]

Originally Posted by Lubicon

Even better if he announced a reduction in the number of MLA's we have for the province. 83 seems excessive, 50-60 would be more my preference.

That’d only work if the public reduced its demands on the time of MLAs. They maintain a very hectic schedule.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Handsome B. Wonderful

Oh good, the Posting Police are here to tell us what to do.

[CaptainCrunch]

Ok, my question is, who's going to have a boob bus type mess up in this campaign

[Johnny Makarov]

Jason Kenney of course!

NSFW!

[tripin_billie]

Alberta separatism makes it to Fark

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

He's been called out before and said he would ramp it down. Or is posting a 1 pic advertising post with no comment A-OK with everyone on here?



Gross!!! I need to take a shower now.

Goes from the usual drive by comments to moderator of this thread. Make a contribution or STFU.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by MarchHare

Why should anyone believe Kenney's "Public Health Guarantee" when he has already shown that his guarantees are worthless? Remember his "Grassroots Guarantee" that he hyped up while trying to unify the two parties and then promptly ignored shortly thereafter?

A friendly reminder: Kenney's grassrootsguarantee.ca website has now been offline for over nine months. Back in May 2018, Kenney blatantly lied by calling the site's disappearance from the web "an IT issue". That's some terrible tech support you've got there, Jason! He has absolutely no credibility when it comes to "guarantees".

Maybe so but here's some food for thought on the issue.

But it would be unwise to assume this is just political talk. Apart from the policy issues, Kenney has a deeply personal reason for reforming the system.

At an Edmonton news conference, he revealed publicly for the first time that his father died in 2010 after a 14-hour wait at Rockyview General Hospital’s emergency room without treatment.

Kenney said his dad sat in a waiting room chair for many hours without being seen, diagnosed or tested.

A relative arrived and managed to get him into a hallway bed. The next day, his father was admitted but suddenly died — “and the tests hadn’t even come back yet.”

Kenney said his family has never understood why the most expensive system in Canada could let that happen to a person. He refuses to be “shouted down by interest groups” that defend the status quo.

He says the system is good but far from perfect, and nobody should suffer in pain without help.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/polit...er-health-care