We tried to warn them.
Update: Calgary food grower says Alberta’s NDP government is putting him out of business after 23 years
We tried to warn them.
Update: Calgary food grower says Alberta’s NDP government is putting him out of business after 23 years
Rachel Notley is a liar and will be gone in the next election! Or maybe before to save Alberta. Where is the Wild Rose Party in all this!
That’s what socialists do.
Why would people be surprised.
The idiots voted for them, even idiots you may know.
Gotcha.
Hmmm, hmmm, hmmm.
May I suggest a more appropriate name for Alberta – Dead Rose Country
Is Notley a piss tank or something similar by any chance?
She seems to have a very “bubbly personality” for such a heavyweight task.
The “bubbly personality” is no doubt due to the knowledge that she can do whatever she damned well pleases for the better part of four years and no one can stop her. The fact that the media will cheerlead and run interference for her all the way just enhances the bubbliness.
Oh well …. a lot of Albertans voted for this abomination so I guess you reap what you sow.
Every rural NDP MLA better start making plans to move on in 4 or 5 years. She will only get seats in government union dominated Edmonton. Such arrogant incompetence.
As predictable as the sun setting in the west.
Farmers being part of the asset building class must be taught where their place is in Alberta’s ‘New Social Order’.
…And the Country elects a fool, not as dangerous as the current US hating Prez but a dumb ass socialist just the same. Justy can’t even speak without saying “uh” between three words. Maybe five~six words when he’s got enough brain juice flowing at once.
“Climate Change uh, is, uh, a very pressing issue, uh, facing the uh, world…uh”
Alberta might be Dead Rose Country but Justin’s Country is now spelled Canad’uh which is truly fitting for the imbecile voters who put this pompous mental midget in charge.
It’s going to be a lonnnnng four years.
Poor Canad’uh!
If there is one thing I loath more than anything else, it is arrogance in politicians.
What an absolutely dreadful woman.
Why not just double the price of imported food?
And those can can’t afford the new food prices get government food stamps.
Problem solved.
Alberta, if you’re going to vote socialist, you’ve got to think socialist.
Smiling on the outside, and vile and vindictive on the inside. I suspect our PM has the
same leadership qualities.
Ideally someone in the Sask Party is creating commercials with this arrogant witch in them right now…
Uh, you are uh, absolutely, uh correct…
Regrettably she has a majority government. The pcees would deep six any leader who fell out of favor with the electorate in the hope that the replacement would win. It was a strategy that worked for them a few times.
The dippers are not of that culture. Winning is an unusual event for them and they stick with their leader especially one that in their opinion has earned his chops.
Notley has those chops in the eye of the dipper and will not be deposed until such time as she leaves of her own accord or Albertan’s toss her out.
she didnt have to laugh.
but in doing so, showed her true colours.
Ive seen a number of 1 hit wonders in office in my time, the common trait is their arrogance than very quickly surfaces, it is after all their true nature and overrules any sense of ‘keep the lid on it’ in order to keep the power they so crave.
its the arrogance that does them in. including the former Conservatist local MP, a new democrap mpp in the riding that included Niagara-on-the-Lake, another Conservatist mpp by the name of terence young from Burlington who declared “building codes are the responsibility of the municipality”. umm, yes and no mr young, enforcing them is municipal, DEVISING THEM is STRICTLY provincial, else how in gawds name could builders keep track every time they work in a different town? but terence young arrogantly and very dismissively refused to address my concern about an issue regarding building codes, and paid for his snottiness by joining the huge group of single-term elected reps.
so dear Albertans, ‘tie a knot and hang on’ and hope for the best, or, leave now ahead of the wave.
p.s., regarding wages and overtime, agriculture is a special case. not like factory work or office work or teaching etc, becuae weather is a big factor yielding circumstances where a flurry of activity, planting, harvesting where overtime is de rigeur, which clearly these new democraps dont understand.
Bill 6 wasn’t drafted properly? Which part? The WCB part? Why these city clowns go after country folks is tragically bemusing. What industry gets laughs as her next favourite bill? She’s not even a year into AB and this statist nonsense? Farmers & ranchers were fine without state “help,” and on the flimsiest of evidence they proceed with draconian rules, putting clear jeopardy on smaller family operations, obviously without proper consultation. That’s what was missing, not a few dots or i’s.
Unpromised legislation, unpromised carbon tax increases, does she think her majority can carry her wherever she wishes as she tunes up to bring the federal NDP back to power?
Her arrogance and political economy stupidity might just start what’s badly needed anyway, a grass roots revolution against ninny statism. Trump’s rise is evidence of the public’s loss of trust in government as they chase their rainbows and we toil in stagnant standards of living, as government gets more intrusive and more irresponsible.
Free people won’t just sit still. They’re not quite the frog in the pot, they do eventually clue in and beware their wrath. I understand farmers are very often the wrong people to pea off. Notley risks a popular uprising against her government, with unforeseen political circumstances if she retains her tin ear and rams through her majority mandate.
My gut feeling is they never back off. She won’t. Trudeau hasn’t. Wynne didn’t. So what then?
I’m no Dipper by far but I’m not ok with working people 12-15hrs days w/o overtime pay. what other industry in Canada allows that?
I’m conflicted. I hate how the NDP are operating and yet I want a Conservative government (both provincially and federally) to act the same way for one term. Get elected with a majority by appearing palatable and then go full ideology: Kill the CBC, revamp the health care system, abolish the gun registry, purge bureaucratic positions, kill fantasy alternative energy plans, legislate that all union dues must be voluntary, etc. Once our house is back in order – hopefully the vocal minority of the left will be sufficiently weakened that honest media reporting will start to shine through and regular folks will finally get some facts with which to base their political support upon.
This…
Brian Jean is too busy cooking up a secret back room deal with Jonathan Denis and his gay lover Mike Ellis to make himself Premier and bring the Librano PC caucus back into power to really care about farmers.
Rick Strankman is the only MLA really doing his job.
Starvation has been the most effective weapon of the Left (see the Ukraine Famine, Great Leap, etc.). Everything appears to be proceeding according to the usual plan.
I’m no Dipper by far but I’m not ok with working people 12-15hrs days w/o overtime pay. what other industry in Canada allows that?
Of course you are. You agree with forcing businesses to pay more than the value of the job. That’s totalitarian. Nobody is forced to work for them.
I remember the NDP years in Saskatchewan. Pitting urban citizens against a rural citizens was almost a recreational sport for them Unlike the original socialists, the modern NDP has an intense dislike of blue collar workers, rural people and small towns. I’m not sure how or why they turned their back on them and I’m sure their predecessors wouldn’t understand it either.
I also remember the farmers and ranchers finally taking a stand against unfair taxation by having the RMs withhold the education portion of the property tax. It worked, btw. Soon after the NDP government was gone and ,without them, the constant conflict between cities, small towns and rural residents pretty much disappeared.
Experiencing that, I’m not at all surprised that the Alberta NDP is doing the exact same thing. Look at their out of province advisors.
I agree. First things on my list for a new Conservative govt would be to axe the CBC and state unequivocally that climate change is a hoax and Canada will not play along anymore. Enough with the incrementalism.
The NDP does what they do because they lack support in rural Alberta, and have nothing to lose. Edmonton is a government town, so government workers and unions benefit most from the way things are now. Wildrose is definitely a hard sell there; Calgary and area will decide 2019’s election. Many urban people have little if any rural experience, so farmers/ranchers must educate them, and provide tangible proof how poor NDP policies directly affect them.
The one thing and only one thing that should have been done was extend WCB to farm workers. Without WCB the farmer is fully responsible for any injuries and care for injured workers depends on the financial health of the farm.
With regard to minimum wage – if you provide an old farmhouse to live in – slap $1000 per month taxable benefit on their T4 – that’s $6 per hour already. Also, if they are a year round employee and they work 15 hour days during harvest, have them take time off in the winter in lieu of overtime. You need a signed agreement to do so.
The one thing and only one thing that should have been done was extend WCB to farm workers. Without WCB the farmer is fully responsible for any injuries…
Yeah, and make it compulsory because farmers and ranchers are really stupid and don’t know people like scar know what’s best for farmers and ranchers. For instance, farmers and ranchers are too stupid to know they could already voluntarily take advantage (to use the term loosely) of WCB.
Oh, and make sure you use the totalitarian term ‘workers’, rather than employees. The worker bees…drones…makes it easier to tell them how to conduct their lives.
Lotta totalitarians pretending to be on the right…
Advertise farming jobs as “Information System” positions or “Extras in a movie” and you won’t have to worry. Work them 96 hours straight if you want – it’s completely legal because they are (still) exempt.
http://work.alberta.ca/documents/Hours-of-Work-Rest-Periods-and-Days-of-Rest.pdf
If you vote Progressive you are basically uncivilized and probably sociopathic. Doing so is admitting that you have no scruples when it comes to using government muscle to bully your neighbour.
@Jason – a couple of comments to perhaps align your thinking:
1. No one is forcing anyone to work 12-15 hour days. There is ample opportunity for hired folks to find different employment.
2. Agriculture frequently requires 12-15 hour days especially in Canada with our short growing season. So, you work 12-15 hours per day during harvest or while calving.
3. You don’t work in the winter. Just like teachers, except farmers actually work when they are working. (OK, I cheap shotted the teachers union on that one).
I don’t dispute that there are some folks who have been taken advantage of by unscrupulous farmers and ranchers. But don’t think those folks don’t know when they have been, or can’t figure out when to move on.
So an NDP witch BS’s her way into office and then it turns out shes a sociopathic radical leftist ideologue who hates Albertans… who could have seen that coming?
Don’t work in the winter?!?? I gotta find a farm job like that! I generally work 50-60 hours a week all winter long, and we don’t have livestock.
Well the price of food has not yet doubled. But, it sure has increased with the falling Canadian Dollar. We import almost all of the fruit and vegetables we consume, as well as a lot of other things (clothes, furniture, etc).
Sorry folks, but I am so glad I left Alberta before it got flushed down the toilet.
Then don’t work on a farm Mr. Townclown.
Oh — but where else is there to go? Surely not BC? Onatario? Maritimes? There are not very many sane places left.
Exactly!
She intends to get the kulaks.
Terrence, just wait for the carbon tax from both levels of government. Canada will go broke. it is possible for a country to go broke.
All over Canada self-employed people in many industries work 12-15 hour days. That includes business owners who provide employment for workers who get overtime rates and WCB coverage.
In fact, workers usually have better WCB coverage than employers!
couldn’t see the video because the well paid lawyers at Global used the “copyright” catchall to censor the news.