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If I want to read sheer ignorance, malice, and open hatred of Canadians by other Canadians all I have to do is read any of the comments made on CBC.com. If there's an utterly vicious, misanthropic, and mean-spirited side in Canada it comes almost entirely from the Canadian left, not the right.
I take it you've never visited the Edmonton/Calgary Sun website then...because those guys are just as nasty as any of the morons one cbc.ca are.
No, I go there quite often and usually end up fighting with some Randroid dickhead or one of Grampa's Angry Conservatives. The thing with those people is that they're entirely reactionary. They're responding with rage to something someone on the left has done. The left by contrast are provocateurs.
I guess you can think that, but I see a group of people who gives as good (if not better) as it gets in the Sun comment section - a large majority of whom were already gnashing their teeth at the godless socialists mere seconds after they won the spring election - and long before they even had a chance to enact any legislation or govern.
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They implement damaging policy without any concern at all on the effect it has on real-life economics or on working people in general. That's what we are out here in the West, in case no one's noticed. We're just working people and precious few of us are living high on the hog in the way apparently everyone down East thinks we are.
You must live in a different Alberta than I do, because so many people around here are living high off the hog - they're just doing it with HELOCs instead of stock options and dividends. I'd say it was anecdotal, but everywhere I go in Edmonton, almost everyone seems to own an RV or ATVs or snowmobiles or a boat (or some combination thereof).
You may not have bought any of that junk - and I certainly didn't either - but too many of our fellow Albertans are buying too many toys and getting themselves too far in debt. And because many of us constantly vote for political parties that promise low, low taxes, the government does not have anywhere near enough funds to pay for all the services we demand from them.
The last 25 years have been disasterous for us as a province because voters insisted on a tax holiday but also demanded high levels of services, AKA wanting to have your cake and eat it too.
Had we paid our fair share all that time, the HTF would be sitting at $200+ billion and it wouldn't matter what the price of oil was right now because we could siphon off some interest (say $5 billion or so) without having to increase taxes to pay for all the things we should have built in the last 25 years (schools, hospitals, roads, etc). Heck, if we needed to, we could actually use it as a rainy day fund and pull out $10 or $20 billion to pay for things we need- because I do agree with you that it is pouring fucking dogs and cats outside right now in Alberta.
Peter Lougheed set us up to do just that, but everyone of his successors was been too spineless to follow through on his vision, and chose the easy road instead.
No, Albertans are lying in a bed largely of our own making.
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I'll say it right now. This election has the potential to give the same devastating and destructive results that the 1980 victory of Pierre Trudeau cause. The Canadian left hasn't changed a bit, except that they're angrier, more vengeful, and thirsting to show the rest of Canada that Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal is still the boss of everyone. The only thing that's changed is that they're rallying behind the Dippers this time instead of the Liberals.
I'll grant it is possible, but I'd argue that it is more likely under an NDP government than a Liberal one.
Some left wing nutjobs may want to kill off the golden goose because of their ideology, but most people in this country (including the Golden Triangle) are more centrist than left or right, so if the Conservatives or Liberals form the next government, they'll be forced to walk a tightrope down the middle just like Notley is here.
Otherwise they'll be out on their ass in four years and watching from the sidelines yet again - and that is a fear that EVERY politician fears, no matter their ideological stripe.
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Until they get into office, then they're just like the rest. Bob Rae's NDP govt was a prime example.
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