trevorhayden
Active Member
UCP fans live in a different reality.
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Alberta Politics
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northlands
Senior Member
Best of luck, Matthew! Is Marlin Schmidt not running for re-election?
bodsbods9090
Senior Member
This has happened at numerous Alberta Next Panel's. A question is asked that goes against what the UCP wants and Bruce pipes up like a snide little child or the mic is cut off.
These UCP idiots love free speech...but only when it helps them!
As for the teachers, my wife is one and she is furious that the GoA has decided to help families out financially when this could go towards helping classroom issues/complexities. She's hearing this will be a long strike.
MacLac
Senior Member
trevorhayden
Active Member
What can other Albertans do to support the strike?
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Best of luck! I've only ran municipally, but I would warn you that it is one of the most stress-inducing things you can do. Lots of angry people will look for anything and everything available to come after you.
David A
Senior Member
I realize the moderators job is to try keep things on topic, but for most people there it may be their only chance to bring their concerns up to senior government officials.
He should have been less heavy handed and more respectful to the person asking the question, who while young, obviously had some interest in public policy.
Yeggy
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TAS
Senior Member
I mean, I would go A LOT further than saying he should have been more respectful. He was about as disrepectful as it gets. And less heavy handed? He didn't need to be heavy handed at all.
For the second time in about a month (the book banning being the first) this is making national and international news. This government is a true embarrassment.
And then Alberta cities get criticism from some for not working well with the province? I think this experience says it all.
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Gronk!
Senior Member
Alberta to apply to Major Projects Office for new bitumen pipeline to northern B.C. coast
No route yet determined for proposal province says it must lead as private industry currently cannot
Airboy
Senior Member
So no real industry buy in and we will spend more money on something that doesn't get built. And when this fails to move along Dani can blame the feds. Just in time for the next election.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
By starting a ton of capital projects but not really starting anything, they can hobble the next government with deficits or win votes because people want a YYC-YEG railway.
SarcasticMarmot
Active Member
Makes as much sense.
Alberta is so weird. We scream about wanting Provincial Autonomy and then beg the federal government to override other provinces'.
David A
Senior Member
Oh there seems to be few limits to how disrespectful they can be. Well for the UCP it is always someone else's fault - the city mayors for dwelling on issues the province would like to ignore, teachers for wanting to try catch up to inflation, the former AHS CEO for questioning their private health contracts ... It seems all these problems have only one common denominator - them!
husky
Active Member
I wonder if a project like this is an opportunity for a consortium (think of like government plus those on the technical advisory team) to all have a stake in the game similar to how the transit projects are run or like Alto (High speed rail) out east. Would that reduce risk enough for private investment?