[fanfan]

Thanks for the ping Civ.

Bump and ping.

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Actually Danielle Smith isn’t a libertarian (she’s a traditional conservative) and Wildrose isn’t hard right.

Despite the usual msm (crappy) liberal spin from Yahoo, the PC’s have been in power too long, they are from what I read from my Canadian friend “Conservative in Name Only”, Wildrose Alliance is the real conservative party in this Albertan Election, and if Wildrose and Danielle Smith pull it off this would be a political earthquake!~

Let’s hope it happens.

-JS (Btw I am AMerican, just like to read up on Canadian politica from time-to-time).

http://www.wildrose.ca/

[Clive]

Thanks for the ping, fanfan.

We now have a contest between a Progressive Conservative party and a conservative party.

The Liberals and NDP are not serious contenders as provincial parties in Alberta.

BTW, In Canada the provincial parties are different entities than their federal counterparts. We have even had at least one instance of a Progressive Conservative provincial premier (Mike Harris) throwing his party's support in favour of the Reform Party instead of the federal Progressive Conservative Party in a federal general election.

We no longer have a federal Progressive Conservative party so the federal conservatives should find the Wildrose Party a more comfortable ally than the Alberta Progressive Conservative.

OTOH I have the impression that Harper prefers to avoid intruding into provincial politics.