91 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. Prentice quitting was the best thing that could have happened last night. Now the conservative vote will only have one party, assuming the PC’s can read the writing on the wall. Once the PC’s are absorbed, voter intention will show Notley will only get one term, she will go full Obama in her final days. Expect all taxes to increase and SE Saskatchewan to benefit.

  3. Well I voted Wildrose and that is what our riding received. I’d like to take the time now to throw a big F U to Edmonton and Calgary. Can’t fix stupid I guess.
    Although I am happy that the progressives had their arses handed to them, it saddens me that the orange in the their banner was foreshadowing.
    Lets hope that the destruction that the PC’s have done over the past few years wasn’t foreshadowing either.
    And to be more on topic, the urbanites have given the NDP the mandate to pretty much ef up as much as they see fit. I pray that I’m wrong, but a majority can alter any party’s platform.

  5. I see a lot of fluffy narcissism. Sadly that seems to be the rule where politicians are concerned.

  7. In contrast to the four legged cowboy transport Alberta is famous for, Prentice can ride off in the $70,000.00 mid-life crisis car he purchased. Life can be so unfair.

  8. The plan is to review and increase royalties like Stelmach did, buy off unions like Redford did and raise taxes like Prentiss wanted to. We have been run by NDP policies since Klein was forced out, now we are getting what we deserve. At least the curtain has been pulled back.

  9. Not really … I clicked on your link and then, out of curiosity, tried to download the NDP PLATFORM 2015 (prompt on left-hand side) but I was directed to a page titled “Internet Archive Wayback Machine”, where I got this message:
    “Bummer.
    The machine that serves this file is down. We’re working on it.
    The machine that serves this file is down. We’re working on it. Details: live-20150506024819-wwwb-app4.us.archive.org.warc.gz”
    I did not venture past that last link. But I’m a techno-klutz, so maybe the NDP platform is recoverable out there.

  11. I had hoped for a minority with either of the three parties forming the government. Alberta voters never do anything half way. Now, we will have to wait and see. S’ugly.

  12. I notice under “diversified economy” they have a windmill featured, so we can assume huge amounts of taxpayers dollars are going to be wasted chasing the “green” fantasy.
    I don’t know much about the Alberta Dippers, but given their many child candidates, it’s indicative they will rule from the idealistic Far Left.
    Soon coming Alberta’s way: more and higher carbon taxes, photo radar, expansion of the civil service bureaucracy, tightening up environmental regulations and adding way more bureaucrats to this agency, probably a Provincial auto insurance monopoly, higher corporate taxes for the corporations to pass on to the people.
    Any thoughts of private health care expansion is now dead.
    And don’t be too surprised if, like our former NDP government with it’s “fast ferries”, the Dippers delve into the realm of oil, via their much yakked about refinery in Alberta rather than ship it to Texas via a pipeline.
    How much would it cost the taxpayers to subsidize a refinery for the oil sands? 2 billion, or more?
    Don’t for one minute imagine they won’t get involved in trying to indulge in capitalist ventures,because in their minds they can do it SO much better than the “evil corporations” and especially “Big Oil”.
    Alberta, you’ve just “jumped from the frying pan into the fire”. Enjoy.

  15. The only positive thing I can say is (Sexist Alert!) your premier-to-be- is a lot easier on the eyes than our Ontario socialist queen. Same message though, send more money.

  18. Thanks, the link at that webpage works.
    Among the NDP promises:
    • “Take leadership on the issue of climate change.”
    •Support diversification in other sectors which include “alternative energy” and “wind power”.
    • “Phase out coal-fired electricity generation to reduce smog and greenhouse gas emissions, and expand cleaner, greener sources, including wind and solar..”
    • Invest in public transit, which will “reduce greenhouse gases”.
    • Increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2018.
    • Replace the flat 10% personal income tax with a progressive tax that tops out at 15%
    • Raise corporate taxes
    • Force private health care users back into the public system
    • “Work with bus companies to reinstate more bus services to rural communities…”
    • “advocate for reliable, sufficient, and fairly priced rail service”
    • Increase the railway fuel tax
    • “Expand the powers available to municipalities to allow them to mandate affordable housing in new development projects”
    • More money for teachers
    • Phase in all-day government babysitting (“kindergarten”)
    • Invest in child care
    • “Create a Women’s Ministry to lead initiatives for greater gender equality”
    • School lunch program for elementary students
    • Freeze tuition fees for post-secondary students
    • Change employment standards by mandating, among other things, “time off for family responsibilities.
    • “Smart regulate” Alberta’s electricity system to provide “stable electricity prices”.
    • Implement the 2007 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and build it into provincial law.”
    • “Improve the representation of Indigenous culture and history in Alberta’s school curriculum” after “consultation with indigenous leaders and Elders”.

  19. A bunch of environmentalists running a resource based economy. What could possibly go wrong?
    The PCs are done. Finished. Kaput. They have no base left. They have lost both the rural vote and Calgary. They will slowly be absorbed by Wildrose just like Social Credit was absorbed by the PCs over the years. Their best chance to survive would be to rename the party the Alberta Liberals as that is what they have been for years anyway.
    Meanwhile, NDP have already stopped global warming. Either that or hell has frozen over. It’s minus 1 in Edmonton today with a wind chill. And snowing, snowing a lot.

  20. Btw, re: the absence of any reference to the NDP platform on the NDP’s own website, earlier this morning I went to the official NDP webpage to find out something about Erin Babcock, the new NDP MLA who was elected last night in a riding close to mine, a rural/small-town mix. She’s a 34-year-old public sector union RN who doesn’t even live in the riding, but in Edmonton. Anyway, I got that same “The page you were looking for was not found” that Kate got when she was looking for the NDP platform.
    I thought maybe it was a bum link, so I went to the NDP website’s main page to look for links to short bios of Babcock and other newly elected MLAs, like the 24-year-old community college student who won another small town riding close to me.
    There is no information on the candidates (many of them newly elected MLAs) on the NDP site. At the top of the page there are three links: “Rachel Notley”, “News”, and “Donate.” Elsewhere on the page there’s a “Volunteer with Alberta’s NDP” link, a “Join the NDP” link, a “Media Releases” link, and a (bitterly ironic, at this point) “Be Informed” link, which just sends you to a page that asks for your email address.
    Yip, a new era of transparency and openness..

  21. Notley wants to diversify the Alberta economy. I’m sure she will. People have to do something after she destroys the oil industry. Alberta’s economy never diversified despite the low income tax rates because wages were too high. Industry couldn’t compete for labour with the oil patch. I suspect that problem will be history.
    Low oil prices have the oil industry in the dumper. Nothing is happening. Increase corporate taxes and oil royalties during a downturn?? Sounds like classical NDP. Notley is even anti-pipeline which means she likes seeing Alberta products price 20 or 30 percent below world price. I barely know any communists but one is now my MLA – in the heart of the oilpatch – idiots!

  22. if Albertans wanted to live in a failed NDP state… they could have moved to Manitoba!

  23. I’ve been gently probing around here (many of my coworkers voted Big Orange)…and almost all of them seem to think that the Dipper leadership will magically see the reality of the oilpatch, which side of the bread their butter is on…and sober up! One of our guys has a disabled son and is angry about the cutbacks in social programs the conservatives made. Another is angry at the corruption and theft under Redford and seems to think the Dippers will be immune to nefarious influences and greed.
    I am looking at that gaggle of tokens, place holders and UFO abductees…and can only laugh at my house as it burns around me. Thank God I have no debt. I think a lot of Albertans are going to get a cruel lesson in actions and consequences and the value of critical thought…

  24. scar >
    “Notley wants to diversify the Alberta economy.”
    No doubt some socialized pot farms and tie-dye T-shirt emporiums. Maybe she’ll even open up a few Student Pravda News outlets in some small Alberta town grocery stores

  26. When it comes to electing quality NDP candidates, it looks like Alberta learned a lot from Quebec.
    And just like Quebec, it looks like as soon as the polls and press started talking up a possible NDP victory, voters jumped on board because they just wanted to be on a winning team.
    Alberta: old Blackfoot word meaning “Quebecer”. 😉

  27. Alberta’s in for 4 years of hell, plain and simple. But then, what they’ve had since Klein left is hell-lite. They may as well get the full-blown version and see if they can learn anything.
    I’ve lost all hope. Harper’s losing in the fall, probably to some awful Lib/NDP coalition, not sure who will be in the drivers’ seat. We may as well all bend over.

  28. “• School lunch program for elementary students”
    Hey she can save tons money and just use Michelle Obabma’s School Lunch Program.
    If not you’ll know she’s a racist.

  29. “alberta-ndp-gets-their-weasel-on-deletes-candidate-biographies-from-website”
    Yes, “openness and transparency”, that’s what she said last night anyway.
    First come the lies, next follows the censorship, and then………….

  31. Don’t be too sure that PMSH will lose in the fall. If the AB NDP manage things well enough (compartively speaking) it may serve to draw some support away from Shiney Pony towards the federal Dippers. hence, more splitting which favours PMSH all the more.

  32. Three priorities that should scare the bejesus out of any Alta taxpayer:
    “Take leadership on the issue of climate change.”
    •Support diversification in other sectors which include “alternative energy” and “wind power”.
    • “Phase out coal-fired electricity generation to reduce smog and greenhouse gas emissions, and expand cleaner, greener sources, including wind and solar..”
    Two specific references to wind power. Was this debated much during the campaign? All the fly by night wind/solar outfits, connected with Ont Liberals (see Mike Crawley) can now be expected to shift their greedy eyes west. Nothing has done so much to make Ont electricity rates uncompetitive as McGunty/Wynne fantasies that power can be generated without using fuel.
    Wind power has devastated many Ont rural communities, ruined the landscape and produced almost nothing in the way of reliable power. Coming soon to Alta? Get ready for it.

  34. So Prentice/PCs got the boot partly because they raised taxes, but the NDP wants to raise provincial taxes up to 50%? I hope Ms Notley remembers why she was given power – because the PCs didn’t listen to the people and did what they felt like – and doesn’t push to collectivist agenda on the Alberta people, who are not political sheep like Torontonians.
    How will she resist the influence of her socialist mentors? I don’t think she will; a simply cursory look at her waffle platform supports my argument, given all the AB NDP have to do is argue they were honest with Albertans about her governing intentions.
    Anybody noticed no Liberals are crowing right now? Wonder why? I don’t?

  35. Yippy…now we get to celebrate Sinko De PC’s…There will be rides for the kids, 25% off all Rub & Tugs (In honor of Jack), and Prentice piñata’s. The trip down the “Have Notly” road ain’t going to be a fun ride.

  36. I didn’t think I’d live to see the day. As some commenters have said Hell must be frozen over. The problem with the NDP getting in can be attributed to “Big Oil” and I’m not talking the oil companies, I’m talking about the Middle East, the oil money of the Saudi’s, Iraq and Iran. In addition to glutting the market over the last year they have also funded numerous “green’ organizations and brainwashed the LIV’s with internet propaganda, all courtesy of our money. Just when we were starting to see independence of foreign oil on the horizon they pulled all the stops. Four years of NDP rule in Alberta will put us 10 to 15 years behind in self reliance. To all Albertans that seem to think socialism can solve all your problems look around, better still start asking yourselves where the next paycheck is coming from!

  37. Thanks that, Doug, and to Genuine Witty for pulling the NDP’s evidence out of the memory hole.
    Guess they haven’t figured out how to work the bulldozers yet, and couldn’t figure out how to bury it deep enough.
    On that note, here’s the lovely new MLA for Stony Plain: A unionista nurse who doesn’t even live in the &#%@# rural/small-town riding she’s now “representing”.
    In da house!
    And here’s the 24-year-old community college* political science student now representing Spruce Grove-St. Albert.
    Here’s a serious and non-rhetorical question. *Why* would the NDP scrub their page of any traces of their platform, and all bios of their candidates and MLAs?
    *(Grant MacEwan is and has always been a community college, they just “re-badged” it.)

  38. If the NDP was destined to win, then I’m glad they won with a majority. They will be entirely responsible for screwing up the province without being able to blame anyone else. They have the entire stage and spotlight and blaming the PC’s for all their woes will wear thin fast. Four years go by fairly fast. If NDP history is any indicator they will do enough damage to bring the Wildrose into power next election.

  39. “Have Notley” — that coinage will enter the popular lexicon, mark my word.
    E.g.,
    “Once-booming Alberta has turned into a have-Notley province…”

  40. This is hilarious. And it fits with my post at the end of the election night thread, where I argued that Notley’s first term is going to look a lot like a government that Danielle Smith might have run. Her party won a healthy majority on paper, but it wasn’t really a majority at all. That will be decided in the next election.
    I believe this because Notley wants to be Prime Minister, winning on the basis of the old Quebec-West coalition, and so her first term won’t be about implementing socialist policy but about packing every governing institution in this province so that come the next election, the NDP’s political dominance will be vouchsafed for years to come. Then the floodgates can open.
    But first, she must win a convincing majority in the next provincial election if she is going to make the jump to the Federal NDP.
    Notley can do as she pleases because her caucus is so weak and she owns it lock stock and barrel, heart and soul.

  41. Wow. Paging through those candidate bios is illuminating:
    Unionista
    Nurse
    Teacher (MLA)
    PSAC Unionista
    Broadcasting Grad (and Electrician !!)
    City councilor (big on environment and affordable housing)
    Blank Bio (looks to be about 18)
    Labour Relations “professional”
    Political Science grad/Realtor – member of non-profit housing org
    Student
    Bachelor of arts/sociology student
    MLA- working towards making Alberta a fairer, more inclusive province.
    Teacher – Faculty of Social Work
    and on and on….they know not what they’ve done….

  43. How come planes carrying politicians never fall out of the sky when it might actually have done some good?
    May Grant Notley burn in hell, and his daughter quickly join him.
    […says the false-flag troll posting from a government building in Ottawa. — EBD]

  44. Yeah, great — our new premier is a labour lawyer who’s married to a higher-up at CUPE. What could possibly go wnogr?

  45. Note that 90% of NDP candidates rely on the government/taxpayer for their salaries, almost NO people with any business background.
    That is why they’re such a disaster in government,when their precious theories get put to the test in the real world, and always fail.

  46. This carnival of the marginal is going to be told to get to the back of the bus, shut up and stick to simple constituency work. Inconvenience Dear Leader and you are toast.
    Notley is going to surround herself with a brain trust of hired guns which will in effect be a shadow cabinet. There might be a half dozen members of the new caucus that I think could be trusted with the keys to a ministry, the rest of the Notley cabinet are going to be nothing more than ventriloquist’s dummies.
    And the guns will come; she is, after all, a woman who could become Prime Minister.
    If I could trust our media to do their jobs, we might find out who the new movers and shakers are. I do know I can trust them to cover up any outbreaks of foot-in-mouth disease amongst the newbies.

  48. If those are her priorities, someone has gotten to the Alberta NDP. Those are the globalist priorities. The same type of thing is happening in many cities. It is Agneda21 straight down the line. I’ll bet they did not even write their own policy document, but had it handed to them by some globalist think tank. I thought it would be fair to wait to see what they will do, but that list makes it obvious what they will do. Good by Alberta . . . good by oil patch . . . good-bye Canada. This is a horrible situation.

  49. If the WR and PCs ran as a single party, rather than dividing the right-of-centre vote, they would have won 59 seats, compared with 26 for the NDP and 1 each for the Liberals and the Alberta Party.
    The NDP completely dominated Edmonton, winning more than 50% of the vote in all 19 ridings, with a citywide average of more than 60%. But outside of Edmonton’s city limits they only beat the combined WR-PC vote in 3 suburban Edmonton ridings, 2 in Calgary and 2 in Lethbridge.
    So the much-vaunted ‘Orange Crush’ was only evident in Metro Edmonton, with virtually all the NDP’s other victories the result of vote splitting between the WR and PCs. Redmonton needs a new nickname: how about Orangemonton?
    Calgary is still much, much more conservative than Edmonton. If the WR and PCs ran as a single party they would have won 21 of the city’s 25 seats. Though Lethbridge’s NDP-loving leftism is a bit of a head-scratcher. Is it because of the university there?
    And I don’t think that blaming Eastern transplants or immigrants for the NDP wave is going to wash. In the northeastern quadrant of Calgary, the most ethnically diverse part of the province, the NDP victories were generally small: a WR-PC alliance would have won all the ridings there.
    The blame belongs with Edmontonians, who, unlike almost all other Albertans, voted overwhelmingly for Notley and co. The unionized civil servants, various government hangers-on and other public fisc parasites in the capital voted for the NDs to a man and woman.
    But despite Edmonton’s sharp left turn, if it wasn’t for the split on the right between the WR and PCs, Albertans would have woken up today to a big conservative majority. These two parties must bury the hatchet and join forces just like Reform/Canadian Alliance and the PCs did federally (they could call the merged party the Conservative Party of Alberta) so that last night’s outrage can NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.

  50. I am not sure Harper will be losing in the fall. His numbers are still o.k. — improving anyway. I would have thought that this fiasco in Alberta would send many people into the Conservative camp. Then again, many Albertans (until yesterday) had been in the Conservative camp, so I guess there is no telling. Still, not a good time for Canadian Conservatives.

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