Words of wisdom from Adam Comartin, who has announced that he will seek the federal NDP nomination in the Alberta riding of We As A Society Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan:
“…there’s a lot of people in Fort McMurray region that have been laid off recently simply because we as a society have decided to trade oil on the stock market as a commodity…”
Mercy. Ever notice that the size of any big idea to remake the world is always inversely proportional to the general wherewithal of the person proposing it? There must be some sort of feedback loop involved.
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“because we as a society have decided to trade oil on the stock market as a commodity…”
Doesn’t this bonehead know there is a difference between a stock market and a commodities exchange?
The stupidity is so thick I’m not sure where to start. There are multiple reasons that people are being laid off in Fort McMurray right now and one of those reasons is that there is a provincial that is ignorant of and hostile to the oil industry.
Can’t wait to talk to my stock broker and get some of that stock exchange traded oil.
Ooops, that should read “….a provincial government that is ignorant…”
Let’s hope that Canada’s federal election this year parallels that which happened in the UK recently: All sorts of talk about Labour (the NDP) going to win a majority government and then the incumbent Tories win a majority instead. Just imagine the look of confusion and disappointment on the faces of all of the Media Party should that happen!
I agree. With guys like this in a prospective government Greek finances would look positive.
Al, no and obviously this socialist does not have a clue about any of the markets.
Robert said, “Let’s hope that Canada’s federal election this year parallels that which happened in the UK recently”
Hope just isn’t enough. I live in a riding that could as easily go NDP as Conservative (Liberals are not really in play) and I’ve enough fear of the possibility that I spent today knocking on doors with our Conservative candidate who is running in his first election.
It’s not fun, but it’s necessary. I would urge everyone to consider giving a few hours of your time to help ensure that your chosen representative has the best possible shot at representing you. When election day rolls around, it will be too late too make a difference.
Maybe oil trades as a commodity, because it is a commodity? In fact, if one were looking for an example to define “commodity”, oil would be near the top of the list.
Guy should have stayed in the tire business. Strong like bull, smart like streetcar.
Conservatives got my vote, this guy can GTFO.
I’ve got a message for dippers and progs who frequently troll this blog.
GET THE F**K OUT OF ALBERTA
Reading the dippers supposed “qualifications” they don’t really amount to spit. Then again he’s probably hoping for the gravy train of federal politics to assist with his massive student loans.
Notwithstanding the difference between a commodity market and a stock market, “we, as a society” chose to do so freely and voluntarily. Of course, the Progressives will have none of it. They will use their power to make us do what we don’t want to do. If there is a better definition of a bully I don’t know what it is. And anyone who votes for a bully is complicit and is basically a sociopath.
“There are so many abuses that have happened (under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program), it’s actually driving wages down in this province, Comartin explained. “You’ve got skilled trades people trying to bid on jobs….”
No Sh*t, unfortunately the NDP solution will be to bring TFW wages up, instead of saying piss off and look after your own country, we’ll look after ours.
I think the feedback loop is a Pablum spoon.
I wish I could assure you that this person is not representative of the general level of analytical thought coming out of Windsor, Ontario (which also gave us Paul Martin, Sr. and Herb Gray and Gene Whelan and, um, me). But. I don’t live there anymore for a reason.
We mock, and laugh at their stupiditiy, but the low information voters are winning the battle.
This coming election could change things irreversibly. An NDP government in power is a disastrous thing. Ontario has never recovered from what Rae did, and the current vast power of unions in Ontario, who have clearly influenced the past few elections, is to a large extent a result of this.
Conservatives better show up before and during election day, or they will find a very unpleasant future.
Hoping for the British outcome is not enough. I’ve never been so concerned about the outcome of an election as with this one. It could be a real game changer. I suspect that most regular commenters on SDA are somewhat politically active, but showing up on election day, or donating a few bucks, is not enough.
Conservatives who look 5 years into the future need to galvanize as never before for this election – helping out with local elections, supporting with money and time, and making sure that everyone they know who will vote conservative has no excuse for not showing up on election day or during one of the advance polls.
Imagine the future with:
-proportional representation
-voting age lowered to 16
-unions sympathetic politicians making national policy
-50-100,000 Syrian refugees entering the country every year
-all firearms short of bolt-action rifles banned (as they have in Britain and England already)
People never expect shattering change when it is upon them, but it comes nevertheless.
Perhaps many of those jobs would not have existed in the first place without a commodities market.
True.
With the left it’s always about the politics instead of what could actually help the taxpaying public.
Proportional representation is the perfect recipe for the captains of big government.
Having knocked on a lot of doors in the last federal election with a good Conservative candidate and then saw him defeated by a young N.D.P. candidate who never attended any local debates and only campaigned on weekends, I no longer believe as much in the impact of door-to-door campaigning. It is all t.v. and social media. However I will do my bit again but I am not optimistic (this time in Ontario).
I see a guy here who –
A) Does not reflexively think of himself as an Albertan first – catch the Freudian tell – he’s “from Windsor” just happens to live in Sherwood Park at the moment – he displays no affinity with the traditional Alberta culture/history/political terrior responsible for the province’s prosperity (it must be CHANGED you see, it’s all wrong, they know how to do things better back east) – if he is a paper cut out of Sherwood Park, it is doomed to a ghost town destiny once the eastern locusts leave.
B) Got tired of the heavy lifting in the private sector and has been struggling to tap into the public sector gravy train but the Dips were the wrong vehicle until the recent electoral anomaly. Must salivate thinking about the deep trough in Ottawa – just like going home in a limo.
Albertans (real ones) must get sick of this endless cycle of eastern workers fleeing the poor economies and joblessness of the east, coming to Alberta to take jobs in the hot western economy fueled by oil sector expansion, then they elect governments like the ones they had back home who killed their jobs there, politics foreign to Alberta which are sure to kill the resource prosperity. From my perspective I’m gob-smacked by people so stupid as to live and work in Alberta who support the kleptocratic politics/parties responsible for making them economic refugees in the first place.
“Locusts” does not adequately describe it.
Once again Frank Zappa’s ageless wisdom reverberates when he said that politics is the entertainment branch of organized crime.
You can’t even trade spot oil. You can only trade contracts. Damn I wish I were in opposition in Alberta. It’s a GOLDEN opportunity to heckle the NDP into oblivion….
Occam >
Bingo!
“Locusts” does not adequately describe it.”
It dosen’t, but Squatters & Grifters gets it closer.
I totally understand how that feels.
I think the main value of the door knocking is to get your own supporters to come out on or before election day.
If we have 70% turnout, and they have 60% turnout, that will make the difference in many cases. One party organizer I know pointed out that 6000 votes distributed among a dozen or so ridings are what gave the CPC the majority last time.
All we can do is try.
Old Lori;
It seems a long time since your last post.
I was very involved with Reform and continued with the CPC until it became clear that the riding association input was being discounted and even subverted from above. Yes,
I will donate and help with the campaign. If our riding is any indicator, where our membership has shrunk from 1760 down to +/-600, it will be a struggle. This is a CPC riding with a sitting MP since 1992.
Perhaps Harper has enough residual good will or has a campaign planned that will drive the agenda. You have to know that lots of foreign money will be working against his re-election and the unions have to be buoyed by their Ontario success.
I am becoming more pragmatic with age as I watch political carpetbaggers ring the system of cash and influence and as the actual political awareness declines. Maybe we have to experience the fall prior to a significant change in thought. The Dippers and Liebels are regularly laughed at and denigrated on this site. Rarely to we acknowledge the role progressives play in the conservative movement.
My biggest disappointment of the Harper period is the very poor job the party has done making a case for conservative thought in this country. It is a very serious lost opportunity if the CPC is defeated. Can this party be re-elected with 34 – 36%
of the popular vote? Those numbers might be on the high side.
People should look at Alberta as investment capital dries up with Dippers in power. I suspect the same happens with a progressive Liebel or Dipper minority. I am one who
will move money from the country.
Fingers crossed that the NDP here in Alberta continue to screw up and the Wild Rose opposition continues the work they have been doing. The dreamers still think the socialist way is the very best for THEM but no thoughts of the country.
Cant help but remember the one in Obamaland that was going to vote for the new saviour because “He was giving her a free phone!” What a tool!
“Ever notice that the size of any big idea to remake the world is always inversely proportional to the general wherewithal of the person proposing it?”
To quote P.J. O’Rourke:
“Everyone wants to save the world. No one wants to help Mom with the dishes.”
Occam, you hit that one out of the park. Alberta was a bright spot in the Canadian economic scene, in spite of the regimes of the last two “progressive” conservative premiers. The Bolos were in there like a dirty shirt creating unrest through their government unions.
“Rarely to we acknowledge the role progressives play in the conservative movement.”
This has been constantly on my mind since the amalgamation of Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives. It seems at time that the progressive side has taken over the whole party. I stayed out of the James Moore thread out of respect for him and his family, but that said, I had no use for his progressiveness, particularly his constantly defending the corrupt socialist CBC. There I said it. There are plenty of other conservative MPs that are progressive and I realize that every party is made up of a coalition, but why does every coalition like that always continually slide to the left.
Nice to hear from Old Lori again.
The guy’s wife is a teacher,so he decided that jumping on the government employee bandwagon was the right thing to do. Like every other socialist I’ve met who works on the taxpayer’s dime, it’s “the pension,the pension” that interests them,and it IS a mighty good pension!
He hasn’t a clue about economics, the constitution, law, immigration, AGW, budgets, commodities,just the typical Dippers zeal for “social justice” and change,without any idea how to implement any of it.
If I hear one more NDP sh**head mention the national daycare program we allegedly need desperately……………….words fail me.
Ken;
I had a little one on one with James Moore recently in Cranbrook. Out of respect I did
not challenge him on his CBC and other heritage spending.
He was a very intelligent fellow to talk with. I was somewhat set aback by his very
aggressive stance towards Russia. This is a minister of the Crown calling Putin a
murderer and mafia equivalent. Not that I disagree but the outspokenness was unusual
from a diplomatic sense. It was obvious from his comments that relations with the Russians is as low as it can get without bullets flying. Harper considers the buildup
of the Siberian division strength unit to be directed at Canada and Artic claims.
As a rule I record progressives as ‘carpetbaggers’ in the sense that most of their
efforts are to enrich themselves. Either that or their jollies are achieved by power. Whatever promises are necessary warrant the ultimate aim of power. As a fiscal conservative the effort of actually making books balance delivered the discipline that might warrant election into public service. So many of these clowns have none of that. It makes little difference because they will never have to answer to their constituency as they have no better idea or ability to judge what their elected MP or
MLA is actually doing. Old Lori was calling for the troops to answer the campaign call once again, which I will do, but I am jaded to say the least.
Us old warhorses will do battle once more in the name of the cause, no matter the odds or disappointments, because doing nothing is worse, and if you don’t show up and don’t fight, there is truly no hope. Winston Churchill will know why we go out there and would have found some incredibly profound way of putting it.
However, all is not necesariy lost, no matter how things turn out in the coming election. In Toronto I have been impressed with the numbers and energy of young conservatives willing to make the effort and to get involved. At least some of the credit seems to belong to the Manning Centre, where a good number have spent time, short or long. I don’t recall seeing this many young conservatives, ever, in my time. There may be bumps along the road, but the future still hold promise. This is an investment in the future that we must continue to make, no matter the cost.
yah, I’ma gonna vore conservative, as soon as we git us’n sum conservatives, one that aren’t bangin the bible
So whadda ya think. dump or short all Alberta-based stocks? Beat the rush.
All that prosperity was a big mistake, where did it leave us, hmmm?