Excellent analyses as always Ken. My vote placed a priority on leadership although I think unions and large public service pensions are notbin the best interest of Albertans. I also did not like the potential 300% increase in Alberta's debt-to-GDP ratio, which Todd Hirsch proposed to plug the gap between revenue and spending.
Mortgaging our future is not the way forward. Jim Prentice had it right. Albertans want excellent services and low taxes. Norway has required government services to be paid for by taxes - and banking their non-renewable resource revenue has bestowed upon their citizens a $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
My dream is for Albertans to begin to play the collaborative, infinite game of improving the well-being of all Albertans while holding politicians and ourselves to account. Onward!🇨🇦
I'm thinking - in the infamous words of the comeback kid story everyone loves to implement:
"It's the economy, stupid." - Bill Clinton
Rachel Notley did a stellar job given the economy of time, her conversion of the world view of Alberta hydrocarbons; she bought rail cars, did a stellar job converting coal-fired to gas-fired power plants, fought the biggest fire ever, as the world prices for our products were in the toilet. And, got a pipeline deal. What did that earn for her? The UCP didn't acknowledge what her scandal-free government did with zero-veteran ministers, that debt was required to balance things out for Alberta.
The UCP chose to paint them as growers of debt and stewards of a tough-times economy as if they created it. They didn't, but Ms. Smith called them accountable for it without accepting any Prentice-era responsibility for the 2008 financial crisis the world endured, etc ...
It's the economy, it's timing, and 'who tells the story best'
Notley, with four years of evidence, governed well.
Crazy lady Danielle has governed like an overheated pingpong ball at the pingpong ball factory for 7 seven months on hard-to-swallow takes on most things for which she deserves zero praise.
She blames Ottawa, Liberals and NDP for everything she can, and she knows which tunes to play when the economy is going our way, and the Clinton playbook did it for her.
Now, for four years or less, she's going to do it to us!
For me, if her caucus can see clearly, they will realize they have zero chance of forming a credible majority government without Calgary, Edmonton, a strong economy, a strong energy industry, and confidence they have a steady hand on the tiller. That equation, if it includes Danielle Smith is charting a course for electoral disaster. If they see that, she'll be overboard. The question then becomes, not one of 'if not her, then who?' - but instead, is the UCP united and conservative - or is it something else that either splits into two camps, two parties, or too bad - they are headed to extinction because the crazies Smith tolerates or willfully ignores try to TAKE BACK ALBERTA to a place it's NEVER BEEN - and Albertans won't stand for that.
Greg - agreed, She is young, but sharp. In the UPC leadership race last fall, she got my vote. I think, given what she's handled so far she's a 'potential premier' one day, but my concern is the United Conservative Party is neither united nor conservative. While you can argue Rachel Notley has lost two elections in a row (this latest one by a very thin margin, she grew her party's seats and popular vote enormously while the UPC lost a lot of ground and a lot of traction with Albertans who live in cities, which is 'most of us'.
In a Reboot Alberta Facebook post I said I was happier Monday night than when I cast my ballot. Many Albertans are looking for a true fiscally conservative, socially progressive option. I have that answer Mark. A new way whose time has come.
Excellent analyses as always Ken. My vote placed a priority on leadership although I think unions and large public service pensions are notbin the best interest of Albertans. I also did not like the potential 300% increase in Alberta's debt-to-GDP ratio, which Todd Hirsch proposed to plug the gap between revenue and spending.
Mortgaging our future is not the way forward. Jim Prentice had it right. Albertans want excellent services and low taxes. Norway has required government services to be paid for by taxes - and banking their non-renewable resource revenue has bestowed upon their citizens a $1.5 trillion sovereign wealth fund.
My dream is for Albertans to begin to play the collaborative, infinite game of improving the well-being of all Albertans while holding politicians and ourselves to account. Onward!🇨🇦
I'm thinking - in the infamous words of the comeback kid story everyone loves to implement:
"It's the economy, stupid." - Bill Clinton
Rachel Notley did a stellar job given the economy of time, her conversion of the world view of Alberta hydrocarbons; she bought rail cars, did a stellar job converting coal-fired to gas-fired power plants, fought the biggest fire ever, as the world prices for our products were in the toilet. And, got a pipeline deal. What did that earn for her? The UCP didn't acknowledge what her scandal-free government did with zero-veteran ministers, that debt was required to balance things out for Alberta.
The UCP chose to paint them as growers of debt and stewards of a tough-times economy as if they created it. They didn't, but Ms. Smith called them accountable for it without accepting any Prentice-era responsibility for the 2008 financial crisis the world endured, etc ...
It's the economy, it's timing, and 'who tells the story best'
Notley, with four years of evidence, governed well.
Crazy lady Danielle has governed like an overheated pingpong ball at the pingpong ball factory for 7 seven months on hard-to-swallow takes on most things for which she deserves zero praise.
She blames Ottawa, Liberals and NDP for everything she can, and she knows which tunes to play when the economy is going our way, and the Clinton playbook did it for her.
Now, for four years or less, she's going to do it to us!
For me, if her caucus can see clearly, they will realize they have zero chance of forming a credible majority government without Calgary, Edmonton, a strong economy, a strong energy industry, and confidence they have a steady hand on the tiller. That equation, if it includes Danielle Smith is charting a course for electoral disaster. If they see that, she'll be overboard. The question then becomes, not one of 'if not her, then who?' - but instead, is the UCP united and conservative - or is it something else that either splits into two camps, two parties, or too bad - they are headed to extinction because the crazies Smith tolerates or willfully ignores try to TAKE BACK ALBERTA to a place it's NEVER BEEN - and Albertans won't stand for that.
I was impressed by Rebecca Schultz as a seemingly moderate, socially professional conservative.
Greg - agreed, She is young, but sharp. In the UPC leadership race last fall, she got my vote. I think, given what she's handled so far she's a 'potential premier' one day, but my concern is the United Conservative Party is neither united nor conservative. While you can argue Rachel Notley has lost two elections in a row (this latest one by a very thin margin, she grew her party's seats and popular vote enormously while the UPC lost a lot of ground and a lot of traction with Albertans who live in cities, which is 'most of us'.
In a Reboot Alberta Facebook post I said I was happier Monday night than when I cast my ballot. Many Albertans are looking for a true fiscally conservative, socially progressive option. I have that answer Mark. A new way whose time has come.