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    #21
    I like Ed, I have met him several times over the years, on business and at party functions. I think he will serve us well.

    I do hope that Morton plays an integral role in the new cabinet.

    His talk of reworking the RCMP role in Albrta is not an issue of the RCMP not being a good force....it is about about the disproportionate amount of funding Alberta makes to the Federal force. Que has its force, as does Ont. This has been part of the reform debate and was a prov PC issue back when the bank accounts of Alberta were near empty. How a strong economy hear makes us forget the debates of the Getty and early Klien era and how to deal with a then overwhelming prov deficit...and slow economy..

    As an opiion piece so eleoquently put this past summer...."the stone age did not end becasue they ran out of stones"....the bouyant oil economy will not last forever and when it does slow...watch out.....

    I would suggest Morton as Intergovernmental Affairs Minister. While 56% in the same poll sunday said Harper has done an excellent job, the liberals will get a bump in the polls with there new leader in Ont and Que as was shown in the other poll.

    Morton, though demonized as a radical by the fear mongerers, if working in the Caninet under the big tent leadership will keep some of us more conservative/libertarian members of the PC party from finding a home in the Alliance and splitting the right wing vote to then lend more support for the Liberals.

    As a northern farmer I am proud to have another northern farmer running the province. Eddie, like our last premier, will called by his first name and not his last, and I think he will endear himself to Albertans for his sincerity and integrity. As a smart leader I am sure he will surround himself in Cabinet with the help he needs....Oberg, Hancock, Morton, and a lot of other capable MLA's that have been with him since the beginning including Knight, Goudreau and other good rural and urban MLA's from around Alberta....

    Good luck Eddie..lead strong and be strong...

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      #22
      oh..and by the way I counted Ballots on Sat night... I am up North, not South, and Morton was a close seond in first ballots at my station...I think you will find his support spread right around the province....so I would not make too much of this being a North/South thing....and remember it was Mortons seconds that secured our Ed as Premier....

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        #23
        I am not counting on Morton as Intergovernmental Affairs Minister because he has drawn his own line in the sand with Ottawa. The RCMP issue is just one that Morton did not clearly provide information on his intemtions, and it hurt him . Some of his own past supporters turned to either Dinning or Ed because they felt Ted needs to learn to listen and represent the population not lecture to them !!

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          #24
          coppertop: Is your computer time a bit ahead of it's self?

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            #25
            coppertop: No, it is not you...the server is in a different time zone. Sorry about that.

            Cheers

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              #26
              Wilagro, for a minute I thought you were suggesting that I was ahead of my time LOL !!

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                #27
                Coppertop, you can quit beating up on Morton, Ed won.......we need to make a clear line in the sand when dealing with Ottawa..last I checked we have a conservative Prime Minister, and Morton was a key architect in the revival of the federal conservative policy and platform.....a lot of Ted's views are a direct reflection of a large number of rural and urban tories, some of which also support Ed...myself included...if Ed turns his back on the Morton supporters that voted for him on the second ballot that would be a mistake...if they cannot find a home under the tent they will pitch their own....many ridings were close to going alliance under Ralph...that could change in Ed's favor if he plays this out strategically...

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                  #28
                  Coppertop: I sure hope Slelmach is more "inclusive" than you!...and I have no doubt he is?
                  You really need to take "politics 101"?
                  To rip groups like the Vietnameses, the Muslims, the Americans, the "old Money", the people who voted Reform in the past...well what can I say?
                  Peter Lougheed is about as "old money" as you can get? Is he evil?
                  How far do we go back? Do we beat people up because their grandfathers came from the USA? Do we beat people up because they voted Reform...and believed the message?...I hate to tell you this...pretty well all of Alberta voted Reform!
                  You like to call Ed Stelmach "the Ukarainian farm boy"! ....Come on ....how many generations does it take? He is an "ALBERTA FARMBOY"!
                  I think you have showed just what you really are? A rascist?
                  Hopefully you don't represent Ed Stelmach?

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                    #29
                    ...thanks for the post northfarmer... i was going to add to coppertop that it was just a short time ago a guy named harper took over the fed conservatives maybe morton's idea to gamble for the premier was a long shot but he did end up within a whisker...he definitely had the boys and even shirley srambling this past week...like you say the people have spoken...i still cannot figure how ed is going to please everyone without spending a quack of dough...on the positive side i did hear stelmach was going to have a smaller cabinet which i am all for...

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                      #30
                      Coppertop, upon relection this morning I believe my post last night was harsh and mean spirited and for that I am sorry.

                      My comments were based solely upon several postings that you have made over the last week or so. I did not say that you are a racist in my last post nor do I think that you are a racist. I do not think that anyone should be excluded from political leadership because of where they were born.

                      kpb

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