One Alberta Voice

The NDP called the election. 27 days left until the big day. I find myself unsure of where I will personally put my voting power. There's no such thing as a perfect party, a perfect leader, a perfect MLA. I've only got 4 options in my riding: NDP UCP Liberal Party Alberta Party I know I'm not voting NDP. They have often placed ideology above thinking of the consequences of imposing their ideology. First, Bill 6. That was the big first move on the NDP part. They received a HUGE backlash from the farming community for not actually communicating and talking with them extensively first. The NDP acted like authoritarian parents who "know what's best" and made changes. Except that's not the government's role. The government is supposed to represent the people, not make rules for the people without properly consulting them. It apparently took 2 years of consultation to really get things fleshed out after they announced the Bill, and most on both...

I just received a text message from Ryan of the NDP Caucus. There isn't a Ryan on the NDP Caucus, so you do with that what you will. It was a message that I regretfully deleted. I should have kept it as part of proof of the NDP's sneaky ways in this election pre-season. In any case, it was asking about if I supported the NDP's efforts on the pipeline. My first reaction was: Have they finally called an election? I did a quick search online. No. But they're behaving as though they have. I've seen the one commercial on YouTube and came across this article that I thought I'd share here: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/colby-cosh-notley-hospital-stop-gives-alberta-bitter-preview-of-ndp-government-on-defence Notley was essentially campaigning at a Lethbridge hospital. Even if one might argue it wasn't campaigning, she was there as an NDP member as shown by signs with her and NOT as a representative of the Alberta government and she was there to ad...

I will be writing more over the coming weeks and regret to not have kept up with things on this blog--or even paid more attention to what was going on politically. I will say this right now: It's time for the PCs to go. If I'm going to be honest with myself, I have to admit that perhaps another party won't be able to win. Other than the PCs, we Albertans tend to be quite a mixed bag. Ironically, the party that is closest to the PCs in terms of social and economical positions is the Wildrose Party, which people seem to be very afraid to go with. They'll turn to the increasingly socialist Liberal and NDP (okay, they've always been socialist, but their socialism is getting strong hints of communism) parties who are vastly different from the PCs, so should be way out of their comfort zone, but they are names that they know, so in a way, it is their comfort zone. I firmly believe this election was called so soon so that people would have little chance of getting to...

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

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 ...