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The luxury of running a provincial fiefdom is that you can still blame your problems on the feds while still controlling everything within the province.

It's adorable to think that Alberta's response will be anything but "4 MORE YEARS!"

Good ole free-market conservatives.

This will most likely use iron from Canada.

Many receiving ports have not seen the impact of oil disruption yet. Tankers that were at sea at the time of the closure are only now arriving at their destinations. It's after that that scarcity will take effect and prices will skyrocket.

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/land-deal-between-mraiche-company-and-alberta-government-under-auditor-general-investigation

This is a framework designed for theft/fraud on a truly massive scale. Corruption is nothing new for any level of government, but it's rare - and really tells you what they think of voter intelligence - to basically have a financial misdeeds bank account.

The decades-long tantrum over the NEP has been based on revisionist history.

This is not common phrasing in Alberta political discourse. It's technically explainable and intentionally misleading. Let's not be naive.

And it's working. I saw a post on LinkedIn about how the $1B given to "illegals" for healthcare could have paid for 2.4 million square feet of hospital space. Lots of likes and supportive comments, and no one daring to question the figures. Sure. Hospital space more than 4.5x the size of the...

I stared at that sentence in disbelief for a while when I first read it. That's the kind of syntax that'll get someone elected president.

I don't recall canelling the SW hospital being part of the UCP platform. The NDP found a way to get that project going.

What do you think the Sheriffs are for?

The questions are also very loaded. This is designed to provide cover and a "mandate" to implement a white christian nationalist agenda and further separatist goals. The about-face on immigration may also be a signal that jobs are expected to flee the province. They'll claim that no one...

The guy who doesn't understand GDP, our voting processes, or paragraphs vomits an ill-informed comment, and, voila! Thread successfully derailed.

My comment wasn't directed at you. It was to the poster who is a member of the Columbia House GDP Graph Club.

Doubling down from the guy who clearly doesn't understand GDP.

Terrible comparison. If the Gestappo was instead named the Biersteins, you might be on to something.

This feels like satire, and I'll treat it as such.