The executive of the Wildrose party is holding a teleconference Tuesday night after Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith met with her caucus to discuss uniting with Premier Jim Prentice’s Progressive Conservatives.
And that’s all she wrote.
The executive of the Wildrose party is holding a teleconference Tuesday night after Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith met with her caucus to discuss uniting with Premier Jim Prentice’s Progressive Conservatives.
And that’s all she wrote.
Set you free by Stelmach’s infrastructure you mean filling up the teachers’ union pension fund I assume? There was no infrastructure improvements under Stelmach thus Redfraud had to be embarrassed into working on 63.
set you free >
“In the end, Alberta voters decided that the issues articulated by social conservatives are no business of the state….”
For the record Danielle Smith self identifies as a fiscal conservative and a social Libertarian.
Alternatively the Wild Rose Part has describes itself as fiscally Conservative/ socially Centrist.
“that is socially conservative and dedicated to massive government”
We disagree on the definition of socially conservative or even what conservative means.
My definition has social conservatives being self sufficient, independent, and personally responsible. None of those qualities are compatible with being for massive government involvement.
Those qualities you articulate are usually defined as economic terms.
What got Wildrose (note to Knight 99, one word) in trouble was candidates answers to morality questions that appeared to be or could be misinterpreted as being intolerant of others.
To Joe:
Teacher’s pension fund? Is that where the money went? Or, was Stelmach’s tenure during a similar time to now, where oil prices were plunging? Guess you have a better memory than me.
You’re a Russian agent. You don’t know dick about policy in a democracy.
You think the Russian military invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine was A-OK and you speak about tolerance? Just STFU you ignorant facist sack-of-shit!
What Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson did today savaged and undermined democracy in Alberta and you think it’s just fine? You are such an idiot.
Arrived at my destination Cgh. Hate typing on iPhone. Iike I said I will respond tomorrow. Are ad hominem attacks really necessary?
So the floor-crossers are so happy with the current Prentice agenda that they crossed the floor to support him?
Why couldn’t they have stayed where they were and still supported those policies with which they agree while maintaining the option to disagree with those that they don’t. At least until the next election.
No doubt in my mind; this is not about policies, it’s about politicians.
Lets have alook at who Jim Prentice is. I see a guy who got into politics with intent of moving into a leadership position in the Progressive Conservatives with an eye to leading the reunified Conservative Party of Canada. But he failed in his bid. He is a Joe Clark Conservative which means he`s a Liberal on just about every major issue.
He looks to be a favorite of corporate Canada and the MSM. As such you will find little or no negative press on Mr. Prentice, which is extremely unusual – nay impossible – for someone with grassroots conservative principles. Progressives yes. The last guy that got this much love and free ride from the MSM was Paul Martin. Makes a difference when you are connected to the right people.
As a progressive –hence the media`s light touch –he is a supporter of AGW and carbon taxes.
Harper put the fox in the henhouse so to speak, when he gave Prentice the Environment portfolio, but put the chickens out of reach.
Lets be honest here. Harper sees AGW for the fraud it is and is forced to pay lip service to it in order to not be bludgeoned with it as an election issue.
Despite being Environment Minister, Prentice could do little to commit Canada to binding emissions agreements or carbon taxes.
And since it did not look like there was any real chance of Harper going anywhere soon, Prentice had no desire to actually act as a simple public servant, Minister or not. (Just like Belinda, who had no interest in the Conservative Party unless she was leading it).
If Prentice was truly a conservative – which in my opinion means calling AGW for the fraud it is – or at least playing the lip service game– he would happily have stayed put either in his Ministry or in Bay Street
With no ability to enact a progressive climate agenda, Prentice quit. Here’s what he said when he simply turned his back on the people who voted for him.
“I am resigning from cabinet effective immediately,” Prentice told MPs in a surprise announcement in the House of Commons following Question Period Thursday.
To explain the surprise move, Prentice said he is doing it for family reasons.
“When I entered into politics in 2001, I made a commitment that my time in politics would last eight to 10 years. It has now remarkably been nine years. And it is time for me to pursue new opportunities outside of public life,” Prentice said.
Funny thing for a guy to do eh CGH. Came in with a defined timeline apparently, and rather than see through his term and walk away, or make a transition, he makes a surprise announcement effective immediately. Didn`t take a sabbatical, quit for good. Done with politics.
Except he wasn`t finished with his “public service“. When the opportunity came up to move into the catbird seat of Alberta politics – home of the dirty, dirty oilsands, and the one place where he could effect great pressure on influencing carbon taxes, and climate change policy for Canada – the one thing he could not do as Federal Environment Minister – he forgot all about having finished his public service, and apparently his family?
A true conservative leader would have the fact he quit mid term hung around his neck like a millstone by the media – especially when he quit in the fashion he did – but Prentice got a big pass. More than a pass – more like a red carpet (appropriate color)
As I said to set you free in another comment, Prentice is going to be packaged far more carefully than Red Ed or Redford. And he is going to be given absolute free reign to implement whatever policies he chooses. There will be no criticism from the media, and the opposition has just been bought.
No one seems to be asking the question of why the PC`s even bothered opening the door to the WR. The media is telling us the Wildrose was washed up anyways. If so then why not just let them dry up blow away? I suspect that despite their election losses, they still had the ability to hold the PC’s feet to the fire, and while perhaps were not going to take power from the PC’s, they could have made things a bit uncomfortable for Prentice.
No one seems to question anything Prentice does, they just applaud. And that quite frankly is more than a little worrying. It is dangerous. If Prentice was sooooo good, he would not have needed to be installed into his position, nor bought off the opposition. (funny how the whores got called on this one but not the John – or Jim as the case may be)
As for your position on AGW and climate change, I really do not know what it is. If you are as big of a Prentice booster as your posts show, I would guess you must support carbon taxes and binding agreements, because that is what the new Premier of Alberta’s agenda is, and he is going to work with other progressive premiers to push the issue to the fore front in time for the next election.
I hope I am 100% wrong, but I don’t think I will be.
the conservative party of Alberta has proven to be inept,dishonest and greedy for over 40 years; demonstrating a total disconnect and disdain for Albertans. This party could not organize or operate a one glass lemonade stand even with billions of resource royalties flowing into government coffers. If resource revenues to Alberta were a trillion dollars a year the conservatives would spend five trillion dollars bribing the spoiled cities like Calgary and Edmonton with their sports arenas, rapid transits , ring roads, bridges, overpasses, ripping up perfectly serviceable airports etc. The uncontrolled oil boom in Alberta has resulted in insane foreign immigration numbers as well as from other Canadian provinces,to Alberta: this requires huge taxpayer expenses for schools, hospitals,subdivisions ETC,
and pounds our highways to pieces. OUR INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS ARE MORE THAN THE OIL AND GAS REVENUES
the conservative party of Alberta has proven to be inept,dishonest and greedy for over 40 years; demonstrating a total disconnect and disdain for Albertans. This party could not organize or operate a one glass lemonade stand even with billions of resource royalties flowing into government coffers. If resource revenues to Alberta were a trillion dollars a year the conservatives would spend five trillion dollars bribing the spoiled cities like Calgary and Edmonton with their sports arenas, rapid transits , ring roads, bridges, overpasses, ripping up perfectly serviceable airports etc. The uncontrolled oil boom in Alberta has resulted in insane foreign immigration numbers as well as from other Canadian provinces,to Alberta: this requires huge taxpayer expenses for schools, hospitals,subdivisions ETC,
and pounds our highways to pieces. OUR INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS ARE MORE THAN THE OIL AND GAS REVENUES
the conservative party of Alberta has proven to be inept,dishonest and greedy for over 40 years; demonstrating a total disconnect and disdain for Albertans. This party could not organize or operate a one glass lemonade stand even with billions of resource royalties flowing into government coffers. If resource revenues to Alberta were a trillion dollars a year the conservatives would spend five trillion dollars bribing the spoiled cities like Calgary and Edmonton with their sports arenas, rapid transits , ring roads, bridges, overpasses, ripping up perfectly serviceable airports etc. The uncontrolled oil boom in Alberta has resulted in insane foreign immigration numbers as well as from other Canadian provinces,to Alberta: this requires huge taxpayer expenses for schools, hospitals,subdivisions ETC,
and pounds our highways to pieces. OUR INFRASTRUCTURE COSTS ARE MORE THAN THE OIL AND GAS REVENUES