tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post1719839890918501980..comments2023-09-22T06:22:50.820-06:00Comments on Ken Chapman: Is Alberta Tired of Being Taken For Granted by Harper?kenchapmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-62006263776120711352011-01-02T14:07:24.539-07:002011-01-02T14:07:24.539-07:00Thanks for bringing this to the forefront. Judging...Thanks for bringing this to the forefront. Judging by the comments on the article, unfortunately, it doesn't seem like there is much chance for the Liberals in Calgary.<br /><br />Maybe if they had a candidate who was the home-grown, charismatic type, along the lines of a modern day Nick Taylor...<br /><br />Someone whose credentials in the oil field would be solid gold and who could sell the good sense of Alberta making itself and its oil industry more attractive and successful by cleaning it up.Offroad Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17140085449827582909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-33032743736165723212011-01-02T09:53:06.119-07:002011-01-02T09:53:06.119-07:00Good Morning Lou. The opportunity Riley is focuse...Good Morning Lou. The opportunity Riley is focused on is the by-election because Prentice left politics. The election is an entirely different set of dynamics. <br /><br />As for barely registering as a party, that was the reality of the Wildrose too - until they won a by-election bouncing the incumbent PCs to an embarrassing 3rd place finish. <br /><br />Good on you for raising consciousness that there is more than one opposition party in play in politics in Canada <br /><br />And now in Alberta we have the emergence of some fresh possibilities and a viable progressive alternative with the Alberta Party. It is all good for democracy so long as citizens show up and participate politicallykenchapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11384045981190810115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-24489148651492546222011-01-02T07:19:22.097-07:002011-01-02T07:19:22.097-07:00Riley has the riding (and the party) wrong. The be...Riley has the riding (and the party) wrong. The best hope of kicking out a few more Tory MPs exists in Edmonton Centre with NDPer Lewis Cardinal, and in Edmonton East with Ray Martin. The Liberals barely registered against Prentice.Lou Arabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03423074252316716818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-9406159706861308302011-01-01T14:56:07.208-07:002011-01-01T14:56:07.208-07:00I read the editorial in the Herald iPad app and re...I read the editorial in the Herald iPad app and retweeted it instantly. This would indeed an interesting twist to be tossed into the ever-more boring games of politics in this country. Getting a Liberal MP in Calgary would spice things up and probably give us more balance and common sense in federal politics.Werner Patelshttp://www.wernerpatels.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31415271.post-3958095021683378462011-01-01T13:37:33.629-07:002011-01-01T13:37:33.629-07:00Only thing is Ken: in a province that talked separ...Only thing is Ken: in a province that talked separation and firewalls (if only to drum up voting support from us), in a province where we still get saturated with easterner-outsider discourse whenever an issue that lies beyond our border presses in on us, what does a question phrased as "only 17% of Albertans are in any way satisfied with the way Alberta's federal MPs protect and promote our interests in Ottawa" really mean?<br /><br />I don't think that even most Albertans buy into the conservatives, or even the "petty nationalism" the conservatives have constructed as "truly Albertan." I just have a difficult time being able to ascertain the necessary "progressiveness" of this opposition from that poll question.<br /><br />What it really might be telling us is that Albertans are ready for a new "crowd" that successfully incorporates the status quo, not a shift in what "our interests" are perceived to be. <br /><br />An indicator of a real shift for me would be representing those interests as something like "in the absence of 1) Kyoto and 2) absolute caps on emissions (both the work of Harper-Klein and the mostly US-based oil industry), we have to 3) slow or halt oilsands development until technology to reduce GHGs catches up, if we're really going to balance economy and environment." Or other kinds of concrete progressive possibilities. <br /><br />It's not just "who" represents you: it's what is represented.Rob Bnoreply@blogger.com