Ethical Oil Vs Blood Banana

We have seen the enemy and she is Alison Redford.

Why is Alberta’s premier doing public relations work for Chiquita? Why isn’t she sticking up for our oilsands, which offers far superior oil in terms of ethics and transparency compared with the conflict oil that Chiquita so clearly prefers and that obviously better reflects that company’s historical lack of ethics.

Let this serve as a warning to conservative parties everywhere: that which the left cannot defeat, they will infiltrate.

70 Replies to “Ethical Oil Vs Blood Banana”

  1. “We have seen the enemy and she is Allison Redford.”
    Couldn’t state it more clearly! This woman is supposed to represent the best interests of Albertans,and this is the best she can do?!
    Redford is a bloody green liberal, no matter what Party she represents,and Albertans had better use their brains and vote her the hell OUT of office next election!
    Give this woman a four -year mandate and she’ll screw up Alberta just like every liberal Provincial government does. Want Alberta saddled with another version of McGuinty or Christy Clark, just keep Redford around.

  2. The best way a Liberal can get elected in Alberta is to run as a Conservative. Wild Rose, here I come.

  3. This woman is a disaster. A typical Joe Clark Liberal who bought her “leadership” with over a hundred million taxpayer dollars to buy the teachers union support.

  4. Ghost of Ed @ 1:08 Wild Rose, here I come.
    I already did, long before “Red”ford came along. And I am fortunate enough to have a Wild Rose MLA representing me, as Heather Forsyth crossed the floor to join them.

  5. I like the press coverage she has been getting. The stupid journalists keep refering to her as the premier elect, as if she has some kind of public mandate for all the nonsense going on. It will be interesting when she finally does have to face a general election.

  6. Let this serve as a warning to conservative parties everywhere: that which the left cannot defeat, they will infiltrate.
    The Progressive Conservatives never were conservatives, just the most conservative option available among the progressive choices available.
    Having the name progressive attached to conservative always has been an open invitation to Leftists.
    The term itself is an oxymoron designed to gull conservative voters and prevent the emergence of a truly conservative party.
    The MSM enables this by calling them “Tories” or “Conservatives” every opportunity it gets but you never read/hear them called Progressives which is what the really are and always have been.
    I voted Wild Rose last general election and will again(hopefully) in the spring.

  7. Every one of them has been a Liberal, even Lougheed. Alberta has been blessed with abundant resources, not talented leadership.

  8. Alison Redford. Bought Head of now whats being called the Progressive party.
    Like ED the red, shes had power for a time but that time is ending. Anyone with brains can see these Liberals are finished. The turn out for party leader was the tip off. Alberta cleans house every 30-40 years. The senior members know it, its why their all retiring.The only reason we voted for them was Ralph Klein. Who with all his faults, never lied to the public. Was wont to admit failures & move on.
    I through my lot into the Wild rose the day Eddy was elected .
    She showed her true colors with this one. Watermelon through & through.
    Wild rose , its time is a coming.

  9. The only reason we voted for them was Ralph Klein. Who with all his faults, never lied to the public.
    ~Revnant Dream
    That promise Ralph made to build “fences” to prevent same sex marriage in Alberta after the Vriend decision but didn’t lift a finger?
    What would you call that?

  10. This one is easy. All of the above, especially the comments by dmorris and Oz.
    Kate nails it with the comment “Let this serve as a warning to conservative parties everywhere: that which the left cannot defeat, they will infiltrate.”

  11. This is Christy! redux.
    Just look at Premier Hockey Mom’s polling numbers. A formerly moribund Conservative party, running at 4% popularity, is now tied with the Liberals at 23%!
    This is what happens when a lifelong leftist pretends to be a ‘free-enterprise’ candidate, just long enough to steal the reigns of power. She believes in big government, and more government. Her latest spending idea, is to provide free nicotine patches and other aids to quit smoking.
    On my dime.
    It’s interesting to watch the same play go on, in AB and BC. The results in Alberta? Likely a Wild Rose government.
    The result in BC? The tyrants of the NDP get another shot at wrecking BC permanently. Not that the Liberals aren’t doing anything much different, its just a matter of scale, as I see it, with that moron Clark in ‘control’. Hopefully, we will see a palace coup in the short term. Blaming the Conservatives for your downfall is petty, and self-serving.
    She’s arrogant enough to call a snap election in the spring, the scorched earth approach. If she’s going down, she will take everybody with her. Yeah, that’s real leadership /snark.
    At least in AB, you have a real, logical alternative in WR. In BC, the Van Jones NDP likely takes over……

  12. Redford’s association with Joe Clark tells you all you really need to know about her. Huh, huh, huh …

  13. Right, we would be so better served in Alberta if we had a spastic premier who freaked out and went on an emotional outburst every time something like this got reported. Frankly, its hard to count the amount of people and companies picking on the oilsands. So our premier replies that this one is not a particularly big deal, and lets focus on the big picture, which right now is our general reputation and the pipeline.
    But if you think that freaked-out emotional plays are such a winner, then ask yourself why every single poll in 2011, including some this week, predict that the WRP will come third at best in the next election.
    Coach at 1:27, dont embarrass yourself. If that was true then BC and Sask would be just as wealthy as us. We are where we are through sensible, common-sense leadership. And while I personally wont be buying chiquita, I’m not unhappy that our leader is putting things in perspective. Frankly, I’ve lost track of how many companies I’m supposed to boycott, but am betting the pipeline gets done.

  14. Right, we would be so better served in Alberta if we had a spastic premier who freaked out and went on an emotional outburst every time something like this got reported.
    Spastic? Freaked out? Emotional?
    Says you.
    Yes officer, I saw him rip the straw out of that man and set him on fire.
    What I want is a Premier and political party that will promote and yes DEFEND, Alberta’s primary economic industry at every touch and turn against all comers.

  15. So ‘warm in calgary’ at 2:09, I happen to be warm just south of you. This is not just the Premier of AB putting things into perspective. She failed to support the 2nd largest contributor to AB coffers (gas being first), and the people of AB and Canada who benefit from the spinoff labour of supporting the oil sands. So if the Premier wants to start kicking the AB oil sands around to score points with…..?, she can do it on somebody else’s dime – not mine.
    She did not need a hissy fit to support the industry. She just needed to be logical in her support. Who cares about the opinion of others – we need to do the right thing. Sometimes it’s not popular. Premier Redford played the reputation card and got it wrong.

  16. warm in calgary- Typical response from a 3rd generation oilpatch brat. Alberta is wealthier than BC and SK because we have more resourses. AB is still sitting on more natural resources than the other provinces combined. The problem is, it’s starting to dwindle, and not a single provincial leader has addressed this fact. Budgets based on growth are a bit like sub-prime mortgages. Eventually, the bubble bursts. As for Klein being honest? Give me a break, he was the worst opportunist of the lot. I really hope this Wildrose Party walks the walk.

  17. In what alternate universe, “warm in calgary” (2:09), could one conflate an Alberta premier standing up against enviro-nuts who are campaigning against the oil sands with “freaking out”? Are you by any chance an associate of Redford’s?
    The oil sands are the engine of Alberta’s (and Canada’s) economy, and they’re under attack once again; Redford’s response was to spin for Chiquita, by shrugging that they’re merely “a corporation who is concerned about environmental outcomes talking about a lower-emission fuel standard, saying that’s a concern to them.”
    How reasonable of them. She paraphrased Chiquita’s response to the backlash as “No, it’s not actually a boycott, we’re just talking about wanting to do better.” Sorry, but she’s defending them, in effect; Chiquita, or any of the other various corporate/private entities trying to damage Alberta’s economies, couldn’t have made any such boycott sound so perfectly reasonable as this former Joe Clark acolyte who Trojan Horsed her way to the premiership.
    As for the WRP being in third place, we’ll just see about that come election time. Albertans are only just starting to get the true measure of this Trojan Horse premier.

  18. Oz
    He was out maneuvered by the Kings collage gay set up. Where the LGBT movement put a mole in a Christian college than went to the Supreme Court. They legally binded him as he admitted. By that time he could not do anything as it had become a federal matter.

  19. well, coach, I did take a shot at you, so I can chuckle at being called a 3rd generation oil patch brat. I am not, for the record. But I believe that Sask and BC have been hindered by bad governments, and that we dont really appreciate how good our governments have been. Maybe thats because we have had good bureaucrats, though I have personally never met one.
    Let’s understand one thing. Redford is the oil patch’s single biggest defender. It’s easy to say she isnt, when you dont know better. But walk into the Petroleum Club and you will see that Redford is considered to walk on water. She got a ton of money from the patch because she is considered a “staunch defender” of the patch. The patch doesnt seem to care what you say, but rather what you do. So dont mistake the issue here. The issue is not that Redford doesnt properly defend the patch, rather whether she should stick her nose in these smaller issues.
    And while I respect the notion that the premier should loudly defend the oilsands at any moment, I simply do not agree. Arguing about bananas is the least of our worries. There is a bigger picture.
    Anyhow, lets keep the debate going.

  20. Indeed, Mr. Revnant. Ralph could only stop gay marriage from being imposed by judges – and, you’ll note, in Alberta it never was. When the federal Parliament imposed gay marriage, Ralph was helpless. I’m no fan of Ralph, but hang him for the sheep he actually stole, and not for the ones he didn’t.

  21. The headline reads that the premier slipped up. Wrong this was not a slip up but rather a deliberate statement. Allison Redford-stelmach is left of the NDP on economic and environmental policy and makes the Liberals look like children when it comes to government involvement in the lives of people. She is so much smarter than us that she must tell us what is good for us. Mother Ally has started and will impose the nanny state at a level we have not seen before.

  22. Well, all Redford needed to say about Chiquita is “fools, pandering to fools.” No need to get all worked up and climb on the boycott bandwagon. Just be dismissive. She couldn’t even do that.
    But one thing that does encourage me: Ezra Levant’s meme of “ethical oil” vs “conflict oil” is now beginning to get traction in the MSM, in this case, the Calgary Herald, which I had always personally regarded as a far-left rag. Good news.

  23. Why is Alberta’s premier doing public relations work for Chiquita?
    Simple, she is a Progressive.
    She will push progressive propaganda in schools, she will strengthen the HRCs, and she will tax the crap out of CO2 seeing it, as tyrannical progressives do, as a HUGE cash cow.
    In fact the PC party is all Progressive and no Conservative. The two do not mix and the Proggys run the show.
    I beleive Wild Rose has a really good chance of kicking PC butt next election.
    Warm, really? Redford’s staunch defense of the patch is political BS. She knows where her bread is buttered. She’s a massive proggy who believes the IPCC’s dire “scientific” concensus and any politican who thinks CO2 is a pollutant is either stupid, ignorant, or corrupt – and ignorant is out of town since Climategate II arrived.
    So warm, we know Redford isn’t a Conservative so tell me, is she stupid or corrupt?

  24. Alison the Red has no idea how to be premier of Alberta. She doesn’t understand that you have to pretend to care about free enterprise. Klein was a liberal but dammit he got drunk and went to a homeless shelter and told them to get jobs. He knew the routine. Special Ed had no clue either because he was out of the job before he learned to tie his shoes. Ed probably still thinks he’s premier.

  25. I think Premier “Allie” was confused, she thought the flap was over “banana oil” which I’m sure she belives comes from bananas.

  26. Absolutely correct Kate. Our conservative party in Alberta is infested with liberal scum and Allison is a prime example. She got in through the back door and by godfrey, that liberal cankle blossom is going out the same way.
    I voting for the Wild Rose in the next election.

  27. Another apologist, self-loathing “Albertan” at the helm. How do we keep electing these people?

  28. warm at 2:56
    Sorry to pop your balloon warm, but that wasn’t the Petroleum Club were in, it was the Linoleum Pub. The good folks there were toasting Muhammad Ali’s son, Asaad Ali, who will be the catcher at the University of Louisville next year. They wern’t talking about the sad Ally we have in Edmonton. Oh..and the money you saw floating around won’t be going to Ally the Red, but rather to “Big Red” in the ally as a payoff for protection. Given the new regs Ally the Red has brought in to limit alcohol intake, I hope it acts as a deterent to you so you won’t find yourself so confused and disillusioned in the future.

  29. Haven’t seen any poll suggesting Wildrose is third.
    There is going to be a big shake up next election.
    Phone polls won’t matter, after all the Harper Tories can’t win a majority right?

  30. Ally Nanny has telegraphed her intentions well enough. Distracted driving law…check. Administrative penalties for nearly breaking the law (.05-.08)…check. Proposed higher sin taxes on undesirable behaviour like drinking and smoking…check. Proposed penalties for smoking in private vehicles with minors aboard…check. Tepid defense of the oilsands in the face of uninformed and hypicritical attacks…check. $100 million to the Alberta Teachers Association to score the big chair…check. Attempted to cancel the fall sitting of the Leg…check.
    It seems Ally Nanny is determined to save us from ourselves…

  31. Her masks been peeled off. That was no slip: Alison Redford has gone bananas – she’s quickly loosing her former appeal and headed for a fall.

  32. Redford’s recent actions (thanks for the list syncrodox) have shows that the Conservative Party has made its final mistake.
    This is the biggest control-freak premier Alberta has ever had … and she’s doing all this stuff without facing the electorate.
    The election cannot come soon enough.

  33. Ghost of Ed >
    “The best way a Liberal can get elected in Alberta is to run as a Conservative.”
    Bingo!
    However I don’t recollect voting for Alison Redford EVER. She didn’t run for anything, yet there she is.
    The Eastern Libs have been trying to infiltrate Alberta politics and dilute Alberta demographics in a serious way for over a decade now, and they have been succeeding.

  34. No prob syf but I left out the bestest part…Ally Nanny has declined to disclose what she’s getting in top up cash from the party.
    I figure Ally Nanny will call an early election and lean heavily on emotional issues before the economic realities of the current world markets worsen…can’t sell the nanny state effectively when most of it’s collapsed…timing is everything.

  35. Knight, they have succeeded in BC, although, the results have been less than mediocre. They could end up as spectacularly disastrous here, but, at least in AB, you’ve got a fighting chance to stick it to them.

  36. The liberals have infiltrated the Alberta PC party by paying off the teachers’ union. She promised them 107 million dollars to go out and buy a PC membership prior to the leadership race. It worked. Now we are getting “sin tax” increases. What’s next? Every Liberal’s Christmas wish? The woman has an ego the size of Ontario and Quebec put together. Redford is a UN patsy.
    Alberta has to vote Wildrose or the next province witha PST will be Alberta. Vote Danielle Smith.

  37. It seems Ally Nanny is determined to save us from ourselves…
    Posted by: syncrodox at December 22, 2011 4:53 PM
    Ahhh yes. But once a large enough portion of the population sends out dependancy signals, you can expect that.
    What will determine events is the reaction (or lack thereof) from the rest. Most everybody east of the Man/Ont border opts for inactivity.

  38. Sorry, but it may be too late, the public service has been stacked with lifer watermelons and leftards.
    It doesn’t matter who’s elected, the progressive revolution has control of the administration.

  39. Alison Redford thinks that ‘doing better’ means buying oil from the misogynist Saudis or repressive Venezuelans rather than from her own Province. I really hope Wildrose uses this quote from her extensively in their advertising next election, which cannot come too soon.

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