Alberta election April 16

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See you in court: B.C. responds to Jason Kenney’s threat to ‘turn off the taps’ day 1, if elected
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“Unless John Horgan ends his unconstitutional fight against Alberta energy exports, the people of B.C. will need to get used to paying well over $1.70/L for gas as the result of NDP anti-pipeline obstructionism.” (Jason Kenney)

I personally believe I'll be paying $2/L and more in the near-ish future. It will be part of the price to pay for slowly phasing out the oil industry. I will hate having to pay and can ill afford it but I'll willingly do so. There's a price for everything.
 
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VIBC said:
“Unless John Horgan ends his unconstitutional fight against Alberta energy exports, the people of B.C. will need to get used to paying well over $1.70/L for gas as the result of NDP anti-pipeline obstructionism.” (Jason Kenney)
I personally believe I'll be paying $2/L and more in the near-ish future. It will be part of the price to pay for slowly phasing out the oil industry. I will hate having to pay and can ill afford it but I'll willingly do so. There's a price for everything.
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Of course we will the new economy of alternative energy needs fossil fuels to be more expensive than the alternative and the only way to do it is to artificially inflate it by putting faux tax on it like a Carbon tax
 
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VIBC said:
“Unless John Horgan ends his unconstitutional fight against Alberta energy exports, the people of B.C. will need to get used to paying well over $1.70/L for gas as the result of NDP anti-pipeline obstructionism.” (Jason Kenney)

I personally believe I'll be paying $2/L and more in the near-ish future. It will be part of the price to pay for slowly phasing out the oil industry. I will hate having to pay and can ill afford it but I'll willingly do so. There's a price for everything.
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Do you see airplanes and ocean liners changing to alternative energy any time soon ?
 
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The Alberta election is a garbage fire.

Throwback Sunday to when then former Conservative MP Jason Kenney conceded that gays and lesbians could marry but only to heterosexuals to procreate.



So what happens if heterosexual couples CAN''T have children, or don't want children? Should they not marry? Couldn't they adopt? What about homosexual people adopting children? Or couples who can't have babies using artificial insemination? What a F....ng A.. hole. Those voting for the UCP because they don't like Notley, are just as (*&&$ as Kenney is. - Hans Sparboom
 
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Rachel Notley on why the NDP deserves a second chance

Albertans prepare to elect a government in a climate of deep anxiety

Rose Klatt came to Olds, Alta., from the Philippines to fulfil a dream to open her own cafe. Her restaurant, with its bright green walls and authentic Filipino cuisine, quickly became a popular spot to catch up on local events.
But the bell above her door rarely rings these days. The severe economic downturn in the province is dragging down her small community, she said, and nobody seems to have the money to eat out. A year after taking ownership of the cafe in this town an hour's drive north of Calgary, Klatt said, she's barely making enough to stay open.
"There's not so much excitement anymore because of the economy," she said, adding she can see her dream "going down the hole."
She's not the only one. There's a lingering unease in Alberta as provincial election day approaches. Many voters remain unconvinced that any of the people running to be premier, or the four main parties they represent, can turn things around.
Albertans cast their ballots on April 16. The campaign is winding down now, with the governing New Democrats under Rachel Notley running a distant second in most polls against the United Conservative Party under former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney.
The province's economy is still limping after years of economic setbacks. Alberta's oilpatch — the biggest industry in the province — is selling its product below the world price, while the pipeline projects that were supposed to open up new markets have hit one regulatory wall after another.
A 'polarizing' election
A sharp drop in the world price of oil in 2014 led to layoffs and the collapse of some companies in Alberta's energy sector. Months of delays to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project have ramped up the sense of uncertainty in the oilpatch while prolonging a transportation bottleneck between the oilsands and refineries.
This is a "polarizing" election centred on the economy, said Lori Williams, a political science professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. And as the people of Olds know too well, the troubles of the oilpatch are never confined to it.
"This is Alberta, this is what we run off of," said Amber Supernant, another small business owner in Olds.
She knows the turmoil the oil sector is facing firsthand; her father, an energy sector worker, was left jobless for years as the economy soured.
Job losses have been staggering. Alberta lost almost 17,000 jobs in December alone.
The national unemployment rate is 5.8 per cent right now, while Alberta's is slowly recovering at 6.4 per cent, down from seven per cent a few months ago.
Still, in rural areas where pipelines and oil offer some of the only work available, the job numbers are far worse.
Edson is a tiny town built around the Yellowhead Highway leading west to Jasper. For a century it thrived on coal, lumber and other natural resources before following the oil money.
It's now home to a section of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The plan to expand that pipeline to the B.C. coast lured hundreds of job-seekers to the community last summer.
"There was a sense of positivity in the community that we haven't seen in a while," said Edson Mayor Kevin Zahara, who served as a press secretary in the province's former Progressive Conservative government.
Then the hammer fell in August, 2018, when a Federal Court of Appeal ruling quashed the $9.3-billion pipeline expansion project.
Like turning off a switch
The hotels emptied. The trailer park was desolate. The yard that supplied new pipeline materials to the Trans Mountain project, once bustling with activity, is quiet now.
"It was like somebody just took a switch and turned it off and the dark clouds reappeared," Zahara said.
Edson's unemployment rate is 10.1 per cent — almost double the provincial average.
NDP Premier Rachel Notley has struggled to get shovels in the ground for the Trans Mountain expansion project. At one point she was seen as an ally of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for getting on board with the federal climate plan that culminated in this month's implementation of a tax on carbon in several provinces.
The platform of her opponent, Jason Kenney of the United Conservative Party, proposes reducing the deficit by freezing spending. Many experts warn the cuts could come at the expense of things like social programs.
And while the NDP and UCP platforms are quite different, they have one thing in common — many seem unconvinced that either plan can restore the province's boom times.
"No policy of any Alberta government can change things," Mark Jaccard of Simon Fraser University's School of Resource and Environmental Management told the Canadian Press.
Agriculture neglected
Alberta's energy sector tends to get the most attention from politicians and the media — but it's not the only industry hurting. Key agrifood industries are also struggling with uncertainty in their trading arrangements.
"We still think we're getting the short end of the straw here," said John Guelly, chair of the Alberta Canola Producers. China recently started blocking shipments of Canadian canola seed — almost certainly the fallout of a worsening diplomatic relationship with Beijing. China buys 40 per cent of Canada's crop, making it a difficult market to replace.
Notley's move to lease railcars to transport oil out of the province is a good example of how the separate plights of two key industries are clashing in Alberta, since farmers depend on freight rail to move their crops. "We only have so many rail lines and we have to share them," Guelly said.
Guelly — who belongs to the third generation of his family running the farm in Westlock, about an hour northwest of Edmonton — said he's tried to raise agricultural issues with the provincial government for years, to no avail.
All of which explains why the spectre of western alienation is resurfacing now, Williams said — with many Albertans spoiling for a fight with Ottawa.
With less than a week to go to voting day, many Albertans are struggling with their options. And many are wondering if the province's problems right now are too big for a premier to fix.
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And it's dirty politics too, this one is kinda funny, but still dirty

Fake UCP signs add to Alberta election divisiveness
 
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www.ctvnews.ca/politics/allegations-of-voter-fraud-levelled-against-jason-kenney-in-ucp-leadership-race-1.4375038

Social conservatives only concern themselves with a lack of integrity when it’s Justin.
 
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Alberta's rage has rendered Jason Kenney near-bulletproof

Kenney, Scheer launch two-pronged attack on Notley and Trudeau at Calgary rally

CALGARY — Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer and Alberta's United Conservative leader Jason Kenney braved a heavy snowstorm Thursday to attack what they call the "Notley-Trudeau alliance."
The two told a rally of hundreds of supporters gathered on a baseball diamond in Calgary that political change for Alberta and the country is in the wind.
"We know in our province what it's like when the NDP are in power provincially. We know the darkness that falls on the province when you have a government in power that constantly makes it harder and harder for people to get ahead," said Scheer, who is from Saskatchewan.
"That's why it's so important that Jason Kenney and the United Conservative Party form government this Tuesday here in Alberta."
Scheer said the first segment of a two-part plan will be completed when Kenney defeats NDP Premier Rachel Notley on Tuesday. The second part will happen this fall in the federal election.
"Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau are cut from the same cloth. They both have the same attitude towards our energy sector. They have both demonized those who have built an industry," he told the crowd from the box of Kenney's blue pickup.
"It's been winter for far too long in Alberta. But spring is right around the corner. Spring is coming."
Hundreds of umbrella's were piled high with wet snow during the rally. Kenney maintained the weather theme in his speech.
"It might feel like winter today but spring is just five days away for Alberta," Kenney said to cheers.
"Are you ready to scrap the carbon tax? Are you ready to stand up to the special interests that are attacking Alberta? Are you ready in five days to end the Trudeau-Notley alliance?"
Kenney repeated key themes of his campaign. He told the crowd that record numbers of Albertans are out of work, the economy is struggling and support from Albertans to separate from Canada is growing.
He also criticized the NDP for using what he called American-style, attack ads during the campaign.
Notley said this week it's clear from the policies and comments from some UCP candidates that a Kenney government wouldn't protect some religions and LGBTQ groups.
She also urged voters to cast a ballot for the NDP instead of for the Liberals or Alberta Party — to join forces to beat the UCP.
Kenney said there is one question he will continue asking Notley until Tuesday's vote.
"Who are you supporting this October? Your anti-pipeline leader Jagmeet Singh or your anti-pipeline ally Justin Trudeau? Albertans deserve an answer."
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Scheer and Kenney are bit players compared to Ford.

Doug Ford is the Fuhrer now
 
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"a bunch of granola munchers in Washington, Oregon and California"

Beware, the politically-correct diet police are watching you!
 
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Her choice of politics aside, I like Rachel Notley a lot. She's had a tough row to hoe and time after time has stood up as best she could for her province. Jason Kenney knows full well that the employment numbers he is so concerned about would not be much of a factor had the Federal government got the pipeline built. Listening to him today, an uneducated dolt might actually believe that Rachel is solely responsible for none of the lines being built - total unadulterated BS.
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Actually, Rachel did sweet dick when she was first elected to ensure that Alberta's interests were represented in Ottawa and was not too enamored of the Oil Sands and she made no bones about it.


By the time she realized that she was on the wrong page, BC had already taken steps to ensure that outside eco freaks were allowed to stop the pipeline and that the Liberals weren't going to assist in getting it build and how Alberta AND Canada's economy was severely affected, she was too late. People took advantage of the fact that she was against oil and gas development but in order for her to actually "diversify" our economy the way she wanted, she realized that there was little to no money coming in and she desperately needed it. So she's raised taxes, instituted a carbon tax, but she's made a 360 degree turn and has decided that she needs to support the industry, even though its a little too late and got us more into debt and deficit in order to do what she wants. I think she was hoping things would turn around (via carbon tax - it didn't) and her "green' jobs would come into fruition (almost) immediately but alas that hasn't happened yet either.


So instead, we have a pipeline that is under Canadian ownership with nary a shovel in the ground, an immense deficit and debt that will have to be passed down to our children and their children and, unless we get a Conservative government in Ottawa, we will very unlikely ever get our oil to tide waters via a pipeline because Bills 48 and 69 will ensure that no resources (including mining btw) can ever be produced.


That's where we are now. I don't know that the UCP can really do anything unless there is a change of government federally. Guess we'll see what happens.
 
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