Have we Albertans gotten our money’s worth from 28 Conservative MPs? If you read the pre-election spending in the 3 months before the election Harper spent $941 per person in Quebec and a mere $15 per person in Alberta. How is that fair to Alberta, where Harper allegedly calls his “home?”
Quebec flirted with voting Conservatives for the first few weeks in this election. Then they saw through Harper and have not just rejected him, they are now shunning him. Ironically it is Quebec that is actually saving Canada as a country by ensuring Harper only gets a minority government at best.
Wake up Alberta. We are being taken for granted and have been ignored ever since Harper came to power. Now he wants to interfere in Alberta’s natural resources by controlling bitumen exports and mess with nuclear power in our province. So much for the old Reform Party Harper who wanted to protect Alberta from interference from Ottawa with "Firewall."
Wake up Alberta. Send Harper a message on October 14th. Vote strategically to elect Wachowich in Edmonton Centre, Duncan in Edmonton Strathcona and Ford in Edmonton Sherwood Park. These are strong candidates with vital voices with proven ability. They will not be a mute minion in a Harper caucus under his command and control one-man kind of leadership.
um, Duncan is a New Democrat...
ReplyDeleteSo how pissed off are you going to be when your insane rants against Harper will have been proven wrong in the eyes of Alberta voters?
ReplyDeleteAnd who's going to pay the bills once all of those Alberta PCs you've alienated stop calling with contracts?
Gentle readers please read Anon @8:14 and reflect on a couple of things.
ReplyDeleteFirst, why must he/she be anonymous? If you value free speech in a free and democratic society - and wish to be taken seriously...why hide your real identity?
Second, why is this comment so nasty and threatening? I don't expect to be "proven wrong in the eyes of Alberta voters." That is not the issue. The voters are always right in a democracy and they get the government they want and deserve...even if they don't vote.
I will respect the collective wisdom of Alberta voters because we have a free and democratic society. That will not prove me "wrong" at all.
Speaking of a free and democratic society, do Albertans really want to support a party that sends out anonymous and threatening characters, like this commenter, to utter threats like this?
Single-minded, command and control, rigid, authoritarian, top-down leadership is often decisive but more often, it is wrong.
All of us are wiser than some of us - and in particular - any one of us - even a Prime Minister!
I will continue to make my thoughts and opinions known through this Blog. I will adapt and change those thoughts and opinions over time in the face of better information and evidence.
I will not change those values, thoughts and beliefs because some anonymous and vicious people attempt to intimidate me for their own political reasons.
I will not be cowered especially when the threats come from such anonymous and cowardly people like this commenter!
Ken: I think this guy is an ass, and a chickensh-t. However, as a Conservative both federally and provincially and in defence of both- prove this jerk is a conservative. Or be honest and please retract that assignation, unless you get better information. There is not one whit of proof that a political affiliation is assured in his bleating - you are jumping to a conclusion.
ReplyDeleteWith respect to your post: are you now guaranteeing that the LIbs will reverse an aeon of Lib policy and start net spending on the plus side to Alberta? Are you trying to suggest that Dion and Wachowich will convince Canadians will be better off if the Libs send MONEY to Alberta, instead of draining it off in notorious fashion as in the NEP and that Dion will NOT keep his election promise to drain Alberta with carbon taxes?
Methinks you stretch credibility beyond intellectual good health.
Good point Crackers...prove to me he is not Conservative!
ReplyDeleteWould a Dipper, Green or Liberal make such threats at this time and to me?
If it walks like a Conservative, talks like a Conservative and is anonymous like a Conservative - chances are its a DUCK!
They get to anonymously jump to conclusions about me - I think I am just a entitled to jump to conclusions about them - and I do it in my own name!
Should I merely refuse to publish these threatening comments from Anonymous trolls? That would be bowing to them.
How do you square the title of this post with "vote Duncan in Edmonton-Strathcona", Ken?
ReplyDeleteHI IP - I see three strategic voting candidates worth supporting. All of whom would send a strong message to Harper to stop ignoring Alberta. And have some other voices to tell him to quit messing in provincial jurisdiction on stuff like bitumen exports and nuclear energy.
ReplyDeleteIt is about electing good people too and not anything about supporting a party so far as I am concerned.
I want to encourage quality people who put themselves forward in a representative democracy.
So consider:
Liberal Wachowich in Edmonton Centre;
NDP Duncan in Edmonton Strathcona;
Ind Conservative Ford in Edmonotn Sherwood Park.
Those are the key places where strategic voting and vote swappiong would make the difference.
I realize that's your message in this post. I just wonder how you square that message with the title of your post, which says something completely different.
ReplyDeleteIP - this Blog gets read across the country and the thought about strategic voting works in many other places.
ReplyDeleteThere is only two real contenders now...and only one strategy can stop a Harper majority...the Liberals.
Hard core Dippers and Greens will not shift but soft supporters who are anxious about the implications of Harper having absolute power of a majority.
If your blog gets read across the country, that's all the more reason to change the title of this post, since blanketly voting Liberal across the country would elect a lot of Tories in ridings like Edmonton-Strathcona (there are, after all, a lot of ridings like that, not just one). If you're really interested in trying to get people to vote against Harper, then you should be directing your readers to a strategic voting site like voteforenvironment.ca or democraticSPACE's strategic voting guide. The title is incredibly misleading and bound to backfire if people were to actually listen to you.
ReplyDeletePoint well take IP and I will take your recommendation and do another post accordingly.
ReplyDeleteCool. Would you also change the title of THIS post?
ReplyDeleteDone - thx for the comments and the advice.
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