My girlfriend visited Calgary and had some pretty racist/sexist experiences in her short time there. I guess that's why their provincial politics is a battle between two right-wing parties.
But Edmonton seems nice. We may as well try to compete everywhere. I think we can turn one NDP riding into two if we try, maybe more.
Come on folks. Lots and lots of people from other provinces have moved to Alberta for work, and it is rubbing off. It is only very recently that Quebecers have awakened to the NPD, and like Niki Ashton has said she wants to springboard a Western orange wave starting in Alberta next year. I think there is lots of potential there if we do it right.
You play for all the marbles in Alberta, you either win the provience or you don't. If we win Alberta in 2015 the Tories won't just
Lose, they'll implode.
Ok, I will cocned that Alberta has possibilities as sane people move west. But at the moment, I would stand by my remarks. I lived in Alberta for four years and couldn't get out of there fast enough.
I mean, when the province has two right wing facist parties competing for the red neck vote, that pretty much says it all as far as I can see. And, the Saddle Dome? Really?
Your honour, the prosectuion rests.
Ok, I will cocned that Alberta has possibilities as sane people move west. But at the moment, I would stand by my remarks. I lived in Alberta for four years and couldn't get out of there fast enough.
I'm sorry to hear that, but I'm very glad not everyone feels like that. There are certainly parts of Alberta that aren't at all as you describe. Have a look at Linda Duncan's margin of victory in Edmonton-Strathcona, if you don't believe me. There aren't many ridings in the country that can compete with that.
I mean, when the province has two right wing facist parties competing for the red neck vote, that pretty much says it all as far as I can see.
Unless you're willing to say that the same thing the case anywhere there's a Liberal-Tory matchup (because both the Liberals and the Tories are "right wing fascist parties"), I'd have to say you're wrong here. A pretty good case can be made that Alberta PC Premier Alison Redford is actually to the left of Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, for example. The Alberta PCs are a corporate, institutionalized party with a sprinkling of true right wingers in it, but it's pretty hard to make the case these days that they're fascists. The scary part about today's Alberta PCs isn't their ideological position; it's their entrenchedness and corruption. And I for one am quite gleeful that the true right-wingers have split off from the corporate behemoth and formed their own party, because that gives the NDP more of a chance to come up the middle in various Edmonton constituencies (and maybe eventually even a few others).
Now back to your regularly scheduled polling discussion...
