[Unsound]

I tend to agree with you, but I doubt that photo radar and speed limits will be an issue for any candidates this time around. It'll all be about the economy. Candiadtes up against a strong Wild ROse candidate may try to bring gay rights or other social issues into it in an attempt to elicit a bozo eruption, but I doubt that social issue will play much of a factor other than that.

[Alta_redneck]

Thanos Thanos:

Just because some people don't like the results doesn't make it a dictatorship. That the Libs and Dips never got their act together to provide a reasonable alternative together isn't the PC's fault.

Just the other day Swan said it was the PC's fault that the Libs only had 31 candidates.

[Yogi]

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[Gunnair]

Unsound Unsound:

Did they give justification for breaking their own fixed election law? And is anyone taking about taking them to court over it?

When you guys re-elect the Conservatives you could seek a public inquiry.

[Thanos]

Unsound Unsound:

I say go for it Thanos. Any NDP vote in Calgary is a kick straight in the nuts for the PCs. Myself, I'll watch the polls and see who's most likely to beat the PC candidate in my riding. At the moment only the Libs, PCs, and NDP have candidates in my riding so I'm most likely going NDP as well.

The Dippers said that they'd put government money and backing into building some refineries and upgraders on this side of the border. The construction would kick out a lot of jobs and finished product pipelines wouldn't generate as much opposition from liberal Yanks the same way that bitumen/diluent lines do; not as much carbon bomb in piping finished product than raw product apparently, or so the environmentalist mind believes.

The fucked up part if I vote Dipper is that there's absolutely no sense of hope involved with it. I have no doubt that they'd prove themselves to be the same absolute pieces of shit once in power that every other single politician and political party eventually proves themselves to be. My hope in the political system is completely dead. There's nothing in it for me anymore, no more than there's anything in it for me in any other aspect of life. I'm fairly certain that I wouldn't be voting Dipper out of any sense of faith in the liberal side of things. It's more that I have no faith remaining in the conservative side and by voting for the silly socialists at least I can say I lashed out and did the smallest thing I could to nail the conservative.

Fuck 'em all. I don't give a flying fuck what happens anymore.

[bootlegga]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

I'm not sure who I want to vote for. I kind of want to see Prentice sink, and voting Wild Rose is the best case for that in Battle River-Wainwright.

Just be careful that you don't split the right vote - that's how Deron Bilous got elected in Edmonton in 2012.

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Truthfully, I don't think it matters who is in charge during the downturn, not much you can do but ride out the storm. However, in the boom times I want someone in charge who will build the heritage fund significantly.

I think it does matter if we want to get off our reliance on resource royalties - anyone other than a right wing party will do that. The Wildrose have already promised not to raise ANY taxes and the PCs barely raised any. According to the PCs own numbers, we're still $9 billion+ below the next 'low tax' province in Canada.

We've tried the low tax haven thing for almost 30 years and where has it gotten us? Crumbling hospitals & roads, crowded schools and services that seem to get worse every year. IMHO, it's time for Albertans to either pony up for the services they want or simply privatize everything and let everyone pay for everything themselves.

I don't like paying taxes any more than anyone else, but I do understand that it is part of the social contract we have as Albertans (and Canadians) - you pay taxes and the government provides the services necessary for us to live and prosper.

I think we should have increased corporate taxes by at least one percent - Suncor made $2.7 BILLION last years and paying $27 million wouldn't make much of a difference off the bottom line, but makes a big one to Alberta. I also think income taxes should have gone up another percent or two as well. As much as most hate the PCs budget, I simply think it didn't go far enough to make much of a difference.

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Other issues for me - Boost Speed limits on divided expressways, and outlaw photo radar except in school zones and parks.

Hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think any party is interested in either of those - although the PCs so far have promised not to employ photo radar themselves on provincial highways (although they allow municipalities to do so).

[Alta_redneck]

The city of Edmonton is $6M in the hole with Photo Radar, that might disappear on its own.

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[Yogi]

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The city of Edmonton is $6M in the hole with Photo Radar, that might disappear on its own.

it actually cost $66 million – a figure 24 times higher than original projections.

[Thanos]

Leave it to politicians and their hack friends to manage to turn a literal cash cow like photo radar into a running deficit.

Maybe we're the insane or deeply stupid ones if we keep expecting the system to be about anything other than a cash register purposely designed to keep the money flowing into the pockets of those who built the machine to do exactly that. Is it cynicism anymore to call it out for what it is? Seriously, what is the fucking point of ANY of it anymore?

[Alta_redneck]

Yogi Yogi:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The city of Edmonton is $6M in the hole with Photo Radar, that might disappear on its own.

it actually cost $66 million – a figure 24 times higher than original projections.

Well look at that I should become a politician, from just reading the headline I saved the City $60M.

[Yogi]

Thanos Thanos:

Leave it to politicians and their hack friends to manage to turn a literal cash cow like photo radar into a running deficit.

Maybe we're the insane or deeply stupid ones if we keep expecting the system to be about anything other than a cash register purposely designed to keep the money flowing into the pockets of those who built the machine to do exactly that. Is it cynicism anymore to call it out for what it is? Seriously, what is the fucking point of ANY of it anymore?

It is what it is but A.R. certainly sees things with wide open eyes eh.

[QBC]

Are they still going through with the mirage election here in Alberta? During this time of low oil tax revenues, you'd think they wouldn't waste all this tax payer money with an illusion election.

[Canadian_Mind]

Yogi Yogi:

Alta_redneck Alta_redneck:

The city of Edmonton is $6M in the hole with Photo Radar, that might disappear on its own.

it actually cost $66 million – a figure 24 times higher than original projections.

How does that happen?