The status quo wasn't working in Alberta. Now if only the Ontario group would LEARN so as to wipe out the Bobby Rae (Rhodes Scholar my rosy red azz ) memories of Buddies in Bad Times Theater fiasco years. She seems to be cognizant of the impression held by many of her party's tendency towards frivolous handouts to the extent she made effort to reassure the business community of co-operation forthcoming.
If the NDP want to be more than a one term speedbump in the road to the next empire they need to have an interesting approach. I'm excited for change just because there hasn't been any in so long. To Bimbam's point, it's a great chance to air out the old. Now after apathy towards the electorate along with stupidity, they're out. Some great Premiers, some awful ones moving the needle and the definition of "conservative" wherever it needed to be to maintain power. First it was the Social Credits from the 30's to 1971, then Lougheed got rid of Manning's party (Preston's dad, Ernest) and they've reigned supreme for 44 years. Short of orange being their colour, that's where the similarities end.Īlberta doesn't have governments as much as political empires. Only time will tell how this administration will do, it's too early to be judging them already when they've only just been hired for a few hours!ĭon't confuse the Alberta NDP with the national NDP. If voters change their mind at the next election, at least house will have been cleaned and maybe some of those new ideas will end up being good ones that people will want to keep around, even if others are reversed. For now, Alberta has aired out a stale legislature that they were unhappy with for some pretty valid reasons, and I think new ideas and fresh faces can only be good for democracy. I know you're a super conservative and obviously aren't pleased about the result, but there's no need to overreact, Alberta is a democracy and if the voters find that NDP governance has been harmful they can always replace them at the next election.
Anyways, the Alberta NDP platform is hardly radical, I think they'll probably be reasonably sound administrators. Besides, some rural areas of Alberta did vote for the NDP. No rural area has ever succeeded from its cities, and never will, it's impractical and there aren't even political mechanisms for organizing that. I wonder if this will spark a rural Alberta independence movement. It should be interesting to see how the province continues to decline as the socialists run roughshod over everything that once made Alberta prosperous. I remember how Albertans used to be so boastful - especially against Ontario - but now look at what's happened to the province.
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