Big Day for Alberta and The Great Wide West - Let’s Predict

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I've been stuck in a tractor for this entire election campaign. What I've noticed is almost all of the ads are for the NDP, and they are all attacking Smith personally, specifically about the UCP strategies to game leverage against and autonomy from Ottawa. The same applies for the sound bites on the news.
I have hardly heard any ads for the ucb, or news bites. It seems that they are making no attempt to either refute or deny the NDP accusations.
Perhaps they are concentrating their advertising where it is more effective, but then why is the NDP wasting their money advertising here?
So it looks to me like the UCP is allowing the NDP to make this the election issue. And by not denying it, when they do when, they can claim they have the mandate to carry on in the separatist direction. Without actually saying so during the election campaign.
Or does the picture look much different in other areas?
I know if I were a union member, and I watched them squander my union dues on a futile election campaign for the NDP and the most conservative writing in the province, I would be asking some tough questions of the Union leadership.
It looks to me like the NDP is out spending the UCP by 10 to 1 at least locally. Almost certainly in futility locally.

[blackpowder]

Notley had a good chance of winning if she had represented any other party.
Her policies while in power show her loyalties.
I believe it's in the party constitution you follow the federal party. And have labor on your board.

Pierre forever killed Liberals here. His son and Jagmeet the NDP for now. Unless you're a gov't employee of course. Hence the sizable support.

Wish we had a two party system federally.

[Blaithin]

Notley had a good chance of winning if she had represented any other party.

If she ever crossed the floor she would be a force to be reckoned with.

[blackpowder]

If she ever crossed the floor she would be a force to be reckoned with.

Crossing to the Libs four years ago would've been quite interesting.

[Blaithin]

Crossing to the Libs four years ago would've been quite interesting.

She’d need to go federal for that. Alberta liberals are way down with the Green Party 😂

[6V53]

NDP 50.004 %

82% of mail in ballots go NDP

Calgary 132% voter turnout.

[sumdumguy]

Hmmm, here we go!

[agstar77]

Too bad Mad Max did not go to Alberta. He is trying to get elected in Manitoba. He would fit right in with Smith.

[agstar77]

NDP 50.004 %

82% of mail in ballots go NDP

Calgary 132% voter turnout.

You can keep your U.S. conspiracies in Alberta.

[ajl]

newsflash; the CPP is heavily invested in china and canadian unicorn companies along with ESG directives. And it liabilities outstrip its assets by a large margin.

I think a province that paid off $80B in debt in 4 yrs could do a much better job and stop subsidizing the CPP at the same time.

Alberta has a fine line to walk. To stop the federal intrusion on their province, they will have to adopt more socialist tendencies. A PST that in return pays for local services or an APP or Sovereign Wealth Fund will halt the equalization drain. The royalty rate might do that too.

What ever the solution is, it cant be business as usual in this country. Something has to give. Smith may not be the brainiac people think, but she can be the instrument we need. She is the only one who even proposed some measures to sheild ourselves from these insane polices.

I mean would you vote for some one who wanted the PEI potato industry closed up. yet we have 25% of the canadian population trying to do that to O&G.

The biggest thing is the 'private equity' scam. Since it is not publically traded, it is worth what we say it is. Then we have bonuses based on that figure. That is the scam the cpp is working right now. So long as contributions go up it will work. I pay both employer and employee share on my off farm gig so know about that. An Alberta pension would invest in the real energy sector and that may have a chance in the future. All other pensions and benefit programs will soon be broke unless the recipients are vaccinated against life.