That no one ever talks about the 17 year NDP monarchy in Manitoba quite like they did the PC monarchy in Alberta?
I wonder why that is?
That no one ever talks about the 17 year NDP monarchy in Manitoba quite like they did the PC monarchy in Alberta?
I wonder why that is?
Manitoba passed the “magic” 50% in the early 1980’s.
I’m referring to the number of employed people whose job is paid for by government.
Visiting last Summer,the whole Province looked run down and threadbare. My home town had lots of new houses. A local gentleman told me almost all of them were built with government grants.
Local industry? The planer mill closed down years ago,even after several government grants to keep it going. Fishing? The government closed all the hatcheries.
Manitoba was the first Canadian Province,to my knowledge, to experiment with “Mincome”, a guaranteed stipend paid to the Province’s poor.
Apparently it worked very well, as my Aunt told my Mother, “it’s great!You don’t have to work”.
The biggest problem with socialists is they have no new ideas. They don’t come up with innovative ways of doing new things or producing new gadgets to make our lives easier. All they know how to do is talk about “ideas” and dream up new taxation schemes.
Winnipeg is a sad city. It oozes of past wealth but is decaying like Detroit.
Just received a 7 pg info pkg from my wonderful CUPE touting all the good the NDP has done for us (Union members) while in power. Basically telling me how to vote in Mb.election.It was great for lighting the woodstove.781
It’s because Alberta has consequence, both nationally and internationally. The only reason why anyone would live in Winnipeg is because they depend on the 400 year old patronage trough located there.
Leftist urinalists.
Kinda like the way they report on the “landslide” Turdeau victory as opposed to the “win” by Prime Minister Harper.
Only problem is that Prime Minister Harper’s “win” had a slightly higher percentage of the popular vote than did the “landslide” or the Spawn, Justine.
That’s the biggest problem that any right-of-center party has to face in any jurisdiction….the free advertising and outright propaganda provided to the socialists via the big unions and their deep pockets.
However, I don’t think that the negativity, bitching and fear-mongering that characterizes all union political input is quite as effective as it was in the past especially in Saskatchewan and hopefully Manitoba. The average voter is slowly coming to the realization that a strong economy is far more beneficial to his/her well-being than are bloated civil service contracts and expanded government.
“Winnipeg is a sad city. It oozes of past wealth but is decaying like Detroit”
We recently stayed there for a wedding and were surprised to see how shabby the downtown has become. Interestingly though, their leftie citizens are quite proud of all of it. They imagine themselves to be a grade above those living in cities to the west; more bi-lingual, more artsy, more cultured.
I usually end up in Winnipeg a couple times each year. Over the years it has rotted from the inside out and has basically become an urban reserve replete with the associated trama.
A coupla years ago a grandson of mine was explaining the tv show ‘Survivorman’ to me. I haven’t had tv in 25+ years. After he laid out the premise of program I suggested an idea for an episode. Perhaps the finale episode. The set is Winnipeg. It’s midnite Saturday nite. Survivorman is on the corner of Portage and Main. The objective is to walk north……..
Years ago Winnipeg had a vibrant Jewish community. Other than the
Asper family there is not much evidence of it today. Kinda like Europe pre WW11. Now diversity is the theme. They celebrate the treasonist Louis Riel. No future.
The happy-faced socialists (pro-business) of Alberta were pariahs because they had “conservative” in their name while the NPD legacy of Manitoba (dour-faced socialists) had the “correct attitudes” despite their wealth destroying record.
Frank I think in the lame stream media and among the left Harper’s 2011 win is normally referred to as the “stolen” election” or “the majority of Canada did not vote for Harper” election.
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Well it looks like Manitoba may finally come out of the cold. But that horrible term “Progressive Conservatives” has got to go.
Maybe they should hook up with the Liberals and call themselves the Manitoba Party. It worked here in Saskatchewan. The only problem with that idea is that Saskatchewan Liberals back in 1997 were, for the most part, sensible and somewhat right of centre. Manitoba’s Liberals …. not so much.
I lived in Winnipeg with my young family in 1972-73 and found it quite civilized, even with having to put up with the provincial NDP government. I revisited the city a couple of times in the last 3 years; you couldn’t drag me back there. There are few places in this world in which I feel unsafe. Unfortunately, Winnipeg is one of them.