Posted on 04/17/2019 6:29:55 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian
Anyone who’s surprised Jason Kenney won a majority government Tuesday night has either been asleep for a long while, or working in the Prime Minister’s Office. The indefatigable, persevering, and super-industrious Kenney is a miracle of political endurance. No ordinary politician could out-work Kenney even if supplied with a few spare clones. There are many reasons why he won but let us establish right at the top that the first reason, and the one that fired all the rest of them, is that he works like the sun never sets, and that sunrise is just something that happens only long after he gets up.
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Having been a commentator for the CBC for decades, Rex does lean to the left, though he hasn't fallen completely overboard, and is pragmatic in his analyses.
So is this good or bad?
Is he conservative? Or at least not a dumbass like Fidel Junior Trudeau?
The Conservatives have always owned Alberta, but the NDP got in in 2015 only as a protest vote against Premier Allison Redford, who got caught abusing her office (she got a penthouse apartment for her daughter, among other things). So yesterday was sort-of a return-to-normal in Alberta (it’s now UCP, instead of the old PC Party).
Best Headline - “ENDP!” (Calgary Sun)
Yes Kenney is Conservative, he was a major federal Cabinet Minister in Stephen Harper’s Government. He’s also really smart, and able to speak convincingly.
Justin Trudeau is sweating already.
More like no more vote splitting from Wild Rose.
Simply no way the neo-marxist NDP were winning anything.
"Rabbit on "
rabbit on. UK informal disapproving. — phrasal verb with rabbit uk to continue talking about something that is not interesting to the person you are talking to: He's always rabbiting on about his stamp collection.
Such a nice descriptive phrase.
Isn’t Alberta considered to be fairly conservative? I got talking to a guy from Alberta while vacationing a few years who described Alberta as “Canada’s Texas”.
I am assuming that by ‘Conservatives’, you mean the PC and UC parties. If so, I must disagree, as the ‘Conservatives’ (or at least the political parties that include that word in their name) have not ‘always owned’ AB. Yes, the ‘dippers came in as result of a protest vote against both Redford’s and Prentice’s treachery, be it voting NDP, or just not voting, period.
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Before the Province went secular and elected Lougheed, the Province was staunchly Christian and conservative, electing the Social Credit Party for decades under Pastors ‘Bible Bill’ Aberhart and Ernest Manning. Unfortunately, the SoCreds lost and Lougheed won in ‘71. Before Social Credit came to power in 1943, AB was led by the UFA and prior to that, the Liberals.
Just imagine if Montana had huge amounts of oil, that would be Alberta. But it has bigger cities (Calgary, Edmonton) similar in size to Salt Lake City without Mormons, so rather left-leaning in the case of Edmonton, somewhat less so in Calgary.
Or it’s like Wyoming with people.
Don’t forget that we also split the vote between 2 Conservative parties in 2015.
MAGA
Make Alberta Great Again
Yes, I believe that Alberta as a whole, is the most conservative Province in Canada. That said, Edmonton, being a gubmint town (though with a strong, heavy industry base), tends to lean to the left. Its suburbs and environs tend to be right leaning. Rural AB is conservative. Calgary, except for ridings in the poorest part of town and around the U of C went conservative. The only other NDP win was on the west side of Lethbridge where, you guessed it, the university is located.
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