91 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

  1. When the socialists take or retake power their advisors come from every corner of the dominion and a few from Great Britain as well. The civil service always sees a purge at the top of each department and only those with the best union/NDP credentials are left to run the civil service.

  2. Nobody wishes anything of anyone like that, troll………….
    [Yes, we occasionally have false-flag trolls posting from either Toronto or Ottawa. This time it’s some dick from Ottawa. — EBD]

  3. Federal Conservatives should have nothing to worry about. Traditionally the right wing federal parties have dominated the western provinces despite their provincial NDP governments.

  4. dippers are going to be positively delirious at the thought of taking power in Alberta, and will act as if they have finally got the historical vindication they’ve been waiting for rather than just fluking into office. This is a recipe for disaster. But at least you’ve got he future to look forward to – hopefully the conservative forces will benefit from this whupping, get their act together, and send the dippers back into obscurity.

  5. Well at least the cost of running government will go down. After reading some of your new MLA’s bios it looks like most of them are professional volunteers.

  6. Yes, nice to get a perspective of this election using some statistics.
    I have seen that the total vote was 57.1 of the electorate. 41% to the NDP. 28% PC and WRP 24%.
    From Ontario myself and believing “the people have spoken” and so on. I would not wish a Bob Rae debacle on anyone, no matter who they may be. (chuckle).

  7. Paul Wells reported in Macleans recently that the senior levels of the Provincial civil service are curled up in a fetal position, which I don’t doubt given the policy chaos that streamed forth from the PC party since Klein started to let things slide.
    10 or more years, that’s a long time. There’s a lot of housecleaning and straightening out to be done there, and Notley has to do it, because if she wants to really win the next election, which would be the key stepping stone to the Prime Minister’s office, she has to be seen as able, clean, and parsiminous to bring all those former PCs and Liberals into the NDP fold.
    But as you say, the civil service will be bright orange by the time she’s done, which is the kind of under the radar institutional transformation that I’m thinking of.

  8. “Have Notly” is damned witty!
    Lets not forget that Alberta has been a rich and prosperous province for a long time. Meaning that there is a hell of allot of big money in the right places in Alberta – Conservative money, e.g. money that has been conserved.
    Most of the movers and shakers of the Alberta oil patch and other industries can weather a long storm well sheltered from whatever these little pee-on’s can throw at them.
    True those that haven’t saved or still remain pay check to pay check will not fair as well. They’ll get to test out that wonderful NDP Social system for awhile. Yet in the end it’ll all dump the NDP into the trash bucket of history come next election.

  9. The rest of Canada should be stunned. There go the Transfer Payments from Alberta!
    Maybe this is just a clever strategy to get out of supporting the Quebec and Ontario.

  10. I think Alberta has really gotten itself into a mess. I don’t know how many are familiar with Agenda 21, but it seems to be a UN directed globalist plan that sounds appealing but has some nasty undertones. Many of our left-leaning politicians are very much involved in this including Gregor and Nenshi. I have now come across a small bit of information indicating that Notley’s budget is straight out of a UN document. Time to get very worried. Someone named Chris Turner on Twitter posts this:”Chris Turner @ theturner … Working out the final details of Agenda 21 for Alberta … Rachel Notley meets privately with Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi #yyc …” (I am not sure of the date. I think Albertans have been had and that Notey will not even be the one running things — kind of like Obama in the States. I thionk Agenda 21 originates with Moe Strong — Maz2 will know.

  11. So true, just back from N.B. visiting family and friends and was astonished to learn that 40% of N.B. budget is filled from transfer payments! No doubt PEI and N.S. are little different.

  12. Took a closer look at he picture and I am beginning to think she looks exactly like Obama.

  13. I predict that the Biggest Loser federally, will be “The Shiny Pony” I predict the media fawning for Justin will very soon, come to an end and he’ll be thrown under the media bus. All attention will now be given to the “bearded one”, who they hope will spread the wave, crush, blizzard or what ever they think they’ll want to call it. May times the media would play Justin’s response before the leader of the opposition, that won’t happen anymore. Justin will soon find the media pointing out his flubs and missteps, all the while the media will now be praising Tommy as a strong leader and someone that will be capable of holding the office of P.M.

  15. How much money from leftwing wackos was funneled into this election to shutdown the “tarsands”, coal fired power plants, oilfields and pipeline exports?
    All they have to do is over throw Saskatchewan, and then look at all the carbon the left can claim they’re keeping in the ground.
    Haven’t heard it on CNN yet, but I’m sure they’ll soon be talking about how there’s a new government in Alberta, that’s concerned about global warming, wants to stop pipelines, believes in green energy and want to “spread the wealth”, just like obama!

  16. I’m currently in St. John’s NL and am amazed at the anger by the Newfies I’ve encountered today over the Alberta election. It’s been music to the ear’s.

  17. When the nosy nanny’s were thinking of banning smoking years ago, a co-worker argued that in a bar full of smokers, they should have to go out side because she (just her) didn’t like smoke and she should have a right to go in the smoking bar with out any smoke.
    These people don’t want to go where their philosophy is popular, no they want you to change things to suit where they are.

  19. Good thing so called conservative governments increased the size of the population that “vote for a living”.
    The free world is careening towards the murderous wall of tyranny with one of it’s heaviest blocks jammed on our gas pedal.

  20. There is a silver lining, Equalization will be dead in 4 years.
    Finally the systematic theft from all , by provincial governments will end.
    As for the tyranny of the cities.. well funny how cities always chose to vote themselves a majority share of other peoples wealth.
    Time to make the cities into provinces in their own right.
    Let them loot within their own borders.
    The effect of separating the takers from the makers would clarify Canada’s politics and allow people to really see what is going on.
    Time for a referendum on income tax, limit feds to 10%, scrap equalization and allow voters the right to vote with their feet.

  21. Why is riding off in a car that he paid for unfair? This is the most nonsensical thing I’ve read.

  22. And this NDP Rookie Premier is bringing Roy Romonow in to help with the transition. Prepare for mass job terminations as Romonow did in Saskatchewan. WTF does this Fossil, Romonow know about the Alberta economy? Romonow had a province with the LONGEST surgery waiting lists in Canada. Romonow did not build a dam thing here in Sask. in the 10 years as Premier. Romonow is an NDP POS.

  23. So here is what lies ahead:
    The PC party is essentially insolvent – teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. No idea what they have in terms of loans, but you can be certain that the donor list going forward will be far smaller than it was in the past. And they will not even get official opposition funds. This is – as many readers will remember – a very similar predicament to that of the PCP of canada after they got waxed by the Chretien-led LPC. Within about a year or so either the ABPCP goes belly-up or – more likely – it will attempt to merge with the Wildrose.
    and just as happened federally this merger will not be a merger, but rather a takeover of the PCP by the WRP. The constitution will be essentially identical to that of the WRP which is a near exact copy of the CPC constitution which in turn is a very close copy of the Reform party’s constitution.
    And shortly thereafter a general meeting will be held to propose and ratify policy positions. If it goes anything like the CPC’s first AGM in Montreal those policies will almost entirely be from the Wildrose policy book. (ironically the moderator of the policy plenary mtg in Montreal was Jim Prentice).
    one of the first things that will be agreed upon will be a new name:
    The Conservative Party of Alberta.
    and it will win a massive majority about four years hence.
    Elections have consequences and this will be one of the good/great ones.

  25. That is a great scenario, Gord and makes sense. The main thing I fear is massive damage to the Alberta economy in the mean time.

  26. Would not surprise me if they even had some Tom Stayer money. He has bought elections previously and seems keen on shutting down the tar sands. This is really a disaster.

  27. “Their first real jobs will be deciding what’s best for you.”
    Ain’t that the bitter truth. Good line.

  30. I’m fine with that outcome Gord… some lessons need to be learned. (by both sides).

  31. How is that split the right vote working out for you?
    About the same as when Preston gave us multiple Chretien majorities federally. I am not saying abandon your principles, just make the conservative party as conservative as you can, and the name doesn’t matter. (See Sask) Pick the one that will win.
    Enjoy the next 4 years, oh and the inevitable 2 to 3 years of cleanup that follows.

  32. viva la revolucion, where is Che Guevara when u need him……Flight Capital.

  33. Hey Alberta.
    Welcome to Toronto.
    A place that the rest of Ontario would love to separate from.
    It took Mike Harris 8 years to try and undo just some of the leftist garbage that Commie Bob Rae did in just 5 years. (Rae took the “mandate” to the longest possible time before calling an election).
    Once Toronto (and its ilk) was aware of the “stuff” they could get from the left, it made enough people dependent so that when it came time to pay the piper, they threw out Harris and they were glad to put in Liberals who are further to the left than the NDP.
    You will now have a dependent class that will haunt you into the future even if the Wild Rose wins next time.
    Then this bunch will be back in one form or another next election after WR. Only worse. Guaranteed.
    Alberta, you have played with fire and 3rd degree burns are just starting. You have no clue as to what you have done.
    You will never be the same.
    Trust me on this one. You have crossed the Rubicon and you will regret it.

  34. Hahaha – Look at the bright side, this is going to create some new taxpayers in the legislature

  35. Don, we already had a lot of that:
    * more and higher carbon taxes,
    That would be Prentice raising the gas tax, which is a direct tax on carbon.
    * photo radar
    We already have that.
    * expansion of the civil service bureaucracy
    Apparently 95% of the increase in spending over the past decade went to civil service and public employee wages.
    * their much yakked about refinery in Alberta rather than ship it to Texas via a pipeline
    But the PCs have already done that, too. See here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-taxpayers-could-be-on-hook-for-26b-oil-refinery-1.3037519
    What this election is really about, is the death of Red Toryism. Allison Redford was called “the first NDP premier of Alberta”. Prentice portrayed himself as less Red but was equally as conniving. Once he had all but buried the Wildrose, there was only one party left that looked like a viable alternative for government. So people took it, correctly rejecting the corrupt and dying PC regime.
    The only “Progressive Conservative” party forming government in Canada is in Newfoundland and Labrador. Other parties of that name are in opposition only. The PCs have been unable to wrest power from a similarly corrupt regime in Ontario. It seems voters no longer like that approach to politics.

  36. to my distress I have found out that my new Dipper MLA is 24. What the H does she really know about the world. At 24 I was still stupid enough to support the Dippers, but I’m better now.

  37. I’m hoping that when they introduce the new PST in their first budget they peg it at 5% so it will be easy to figure out the price of things without a calculator.

  38. Remember everyone in Alberta, if things get too nutty, you can recall your MLA and force a by-election

  39. Mike >
    “…if things get too nutty, you can recall your MLA and force a by-election”
    Well then it’s time for a by-election next week!
    May 15/15 works for me, any bets the WRP would win now?

  40. CBC interview with the CEO of Bonterra:
    We are looking at moving our investments to Sask.
    Good on ya Watermelon heads, we are so screwed!

  41. The linked Facebook photo of noob NDP MLA Deborah Drever by the marijuana leaf t-shirt is only one of several floating around out there. No one is mentioning the one in she she is wearing a t-shirt that appears to read “Satan”.
    And the Wildrose lost the last election over the “Lake of fire” blogs?

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