Deux Poids, Deux Mesures
Let’s play a game. Two parties:
Party A Advocates:
-Fixed election dates
-A citizens assembly on democratic reform
-Smaller government…quite literally – in the form of reducing the number of MLAs from 83 to 65.
-A renewed emphasis on Peter Lougheed's Heritage fund
Part B has been accused of being:
-Arrogant
-Too complacent
-Adrift without a clear direction or a plan
-Involved in a conflict of interests scandal
Party A is the Alberta Liberal Party. Party B is the Progressive Conservative Party. The same things that cause Albertans to spit at Jean Chretien and Paul Martin are being seen in the Klein government. Yet there seems to be a general sense that the electorate will just bend over and take it this time, as they always do. It’s an odd double standard.
Let’s play a game. Two parties:
Party A Advocates:
-Fixed election dates
-A citizens assembly on democratic reform
-Smaller government…quite literally – in the form of reducing the number of MLAs from 83 to 65.
-A renewed emphasis on Peter Lougheed's Heritage fund
Part B has been accused of being:
-Arrogant
-Too complacent
-Adrift without a clear direction or a plan
-Involved in a conflict of interests scandal
Party A is the Alberta Liberal Party. Party B is the Progressive Conservative Party. The same things that cause Albertans to spit at Jean Chretien and Paul Martin are being seen in the Klein government. Yet there seems to be a general sense that the electorate will just bend over and take it this time, as they always do. It’s an odd double standard.
posted by calgarygrit at
6:30 p.m.
3 Comments:
No no, I think you have the dynamic backwards. Ultimately, it comes down to "HATE LIBERALS" and "LOVE CONSERVATIVES" in Alberta. Having established that, THEN talk policy (or in this case, lack of.)
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DJC, at 4:45 a.m.
Those ridings sound about right. McCall is a sleeper riding - the Liberal candidate there has big contacts in the Sikh community and a ton of money behind him. Varsity has the University in it and I've heard the SU is really pushing students to vote this year.
I haven't heard much on Montrose...
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