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Here's an article by Ezra Levant about how Redford managed to win. I couldn't agree more! http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2012/04/20120428-113313.html

I thought I would make a separate post about the people who left the PC Party--or got kicked out--since the last election in 2008. The numbers represent the seats before this election: First to leave was Ron Stevens who resigned because of a judicial appointment. A by-election was held and Wildrose Paul Hinman won that seat. PC caucus count down to 71. Wildrose 1. Guy Boutilier was kicked out of the PC caucus in July 2009 for publicly criticizing the government. (Please keep in mind one of the criticisms of the PC party of Alberta is that all MLAs are to "be the same"--there is no free vote and Premier Redford was quoted just the other day as having said that all her members thought the same way. Frankly, I find this to be a red flag: no diversity nor free speech allowed? all are supposed to be little clones when it comes to government affairs? All right, enough of my interjected opinion.) He eventually joined the Wildrose Party. PC caucus down to 70. Wildrose 2. Januar...

Danielle Smith says they will have a look at some of their more problematic policies: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/wildrose-may-reconsider-policies-smith-says-021313681.html Here's a chance for you to have your say! Especially if you are a Wildrose supporter, they will want to hear what you have to say about their policies. Look them over, ask your questions, tell them which ones you love, which ones you don't. :D

Here's an article out today: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2012/04/24/albertavotes2012-redford-plans.html Speaking in Calgary on Tuesday, Redford rejected theories that many Liberals voted PC to block the Wildrose from gaining power. I believe this to be a rebuttal to Danielle Smith's election night speech. And yet, in my post yesterday , I shared from another article the following: A Conservative strategist said moving to the progressive side of the spectrum made the party more representative of the views of Albertans and better able to convince NDP and Liberal voters in the province that a Wildrose majority was not in their interest. This was one of my criticisms about the PCs before the election: Redford saying things completely opposite of what others in her circle were saying. Why is this? The other incidents that come to mind are when Minister Lukaszuk said that Bill 2 was dead; Redford said it wasn't yet. She ended up calling the election ...

Despite telling myself to take a small break from political reading - it really is just getting me very frustrated at times - I ended up reading this article: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1166726--alberta-election-after-a-divisive-campaign-voters-cast-their-ballot There is a quote from a PC supporter in the article, as follows: “So what we ended up with is an Americanization of our Alberta politics,” said PC supporter Anita Loowell of Edmonton. “What we’ve got at that end, the Wildrose, is people who believe that private health care is okay, that people should look after themselves, that public education doesn’t matter and we’re all on our own. That’s not what I want." Here we see the likely effects of misinformation through the media. I can grant that someone may have read the Wildrose Policy and believed such a thing, but those are not the facts. As of their 2012 policy, here is Wildrose's stance on health care:  http://www.wildrose.ca/policy...