Posted on 05/05/2015 9:19:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I was so shocked to see this headline I thought it was a joke. Checked on the CBC website. No joke.
NDP/Socialist politicians are tax and spenders. With oil revenues down they will increase taxes and the voters will not like that. Hopefully they will come to their senses by the next election.
Something way worse replaced it.
There is no silver lining here.
The 'dippers' destroy the economy of Provinces when they get majorities. They did that to Ontario and to BC. THE 'dippers' are majority so they have four years to destroy what Albertans took 100 years to build. Are they up to the challenge? I'm sure they'll try!
I would say that now is a good time to leave Alberta, but there is no longer a 'conservative' Province in Canada. The only slightly positive result of the election is that the crony capitalist CONservatives were destroyed and that the somewhat libertarian Wildrose Party formed the Official Opposition. Perhaps in four years we'll get a Wildrose government in to try to pick up the smashed Alberta economy.
You could fit Alberta small-c conservatives in a small arena and in political terms, you could count their numbers with two hands. Quite similar to any conservative movement in any country. Minuscule.
On top of that, Boehner and Mitch were in diapers when the PCs were purging conservatives from its ranks.
“Having the NDP win in Alberta is like having the Socialists winning in Texas.”
Came to this thread to say exactly that. Who knew Albertans had a death wish amidst their perennial prosperity?
Can they have already forgotten what the socialists did in their brief stint running Ontario?
1936 comes to mind.
What is amazing is that in British Colombia the NDP was defeated in the last elections.
Yes, 1936 was quite a Democrat landslide, led by the President responsible for extending the Depression. Roosevelt must be the poster boy for the “I won” attitude, because he really stuck it to the country.
In BC, the NDP was in power long enough to show that they couldn’t make socialism work either, so the socialist electorate elected a new set of socialists to give it another whack.
They merged with the Canadian Alliance (formerly the Reform Party of Canada) to form the Conservative Party of Canada. Some of the old PCP loyalists didn't make the move, but most of them are gone now.
Out west in Alberta IIRC, most of the politicians and voters were with Reform -- the more conservative party that broke away from the Progressive Conservatives -- rather than statist "Red Tories" of Ontario and the Maritimes.
It died nationally, but still is called that in Alberta and it governed accordingly.
There is no federal Progressive Conservative Party anymore, but the Progressive Conservative Association was the ruling party in Alberta.
The Wildrose Alliance was the more conservative party and they are now the #2 party in the legislature.
I thought I understood Canadian politics, but I guess you can't count on it staying the same from year to year.
It's a bad thing. The NDP is always left. In some provinces it's the leftward of two major parties and in others it's the leftest of three major parties depending on which parties are running. In Alberta, they are the furthest left of three parties.
Canadian politics. So many nuances.
My guess is the idea that Albertans are conservative is and always was a myth.
Indeed, and it has taken me a good decade to accept the fact that Canadians are, in their heart and soul, socialists.
They will be licking their chops now.
Mayor of Calgary is a gay muslim. U of Alberta announced a couple years ago that they will be increasing the number of grad students by 8x with students from India (surely you were not thinking Canadians?). President of U of Alberta is of course from India... and so on... and so on.
Yes, we have this noble fantasy that vast snowy Canada is one of the last fortresses of freedom for western man... it's simply and unfortunately not true. The ridiculous lesbian/gay politics that infects every Canadian university has now become the politics of provinces---Ontario is run by a crazy lesbian hag. Soon it will be federal politics as well.
Canada is doomed. I think it did something to deserve this karmic retribution though. Maybe it has something to do with letting a million of their own citizens, anglophones, get stomped under the boot of the totalitarian frogs of Quebec.
Wildrose was unable to crack the cities and win seats.
NDP won with just less than 41 percent of the popular vote .
The rest of the vote split mainly between PC and Wildrose.
A unified opposition could beat the NDP next time but I’m no advocate for liberty minded people compromising with fake conservatives.
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