Alberta election April 16

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Alberta election: If Jason Kenney wins Trudeau may be in for a headache, experts warn

‘It’s the economy’: Alberta voters hungry for economic recovery

Gen Tex Industries has been in business for over 20 years. The Red Deer, Alberta based company manufactures heating and pumping equipment for the oil and gas industry. At one point, the company employed 50 people, but right now it's operating with a staff of 12.
"We had two rounds of layoffs," said company president Garett Cupples. "There have been a lot of sobering moments looking at how to make payroll, and having to let people go and lay people off is pretty tough."
The experience of Gen Tex is hardly unique. Tens of thousands of jobs have disappeared in Alberta in recent years and the situation could get even worse. PetroLMI, the labour statistics information division of Energy Safety Canada, says about 12,500 jobs are at risk this year due to factors including low commodity prices, a decline in investment spending and uncertainty about getting oil and gas to market due to full export pipelines.
"The attitudes are bad, too. Everybody's a lot more negative than I've ever seen before. It's almost like a depression," said Cupples.
The business is coffee over at Big City Roasters, not crude, but owner Teresa Reid has similar concerns.
The company operates a coffee shop in downtown Red Deer and supplies locally-roasted coffee to clients throughout central Alberta. Reid says higher taxes, an increased minimum wage and the carbon tax are makings things difficult.
"You just hear a lot of business closing, they can't afford to keep going. We have a few customers — one out in Rocky [Mountain House, Alta.] that had been in business for 40 years and he had to close. That impacts us."
For Reid, a divisive and sometimes nasty campaign has done nothing to change her vote. Like many others in the province, there is only one issue on her mind.
"It's the economy," said Mount Royal University politicial scientist Duane Bratt.
"Whether that's jobs, pipelines, budget deficits, carbon tax... it's all about the economy and nothing's changed."
Outside of Gen Tex Industries, Cussins isn't shy about showing which party has his support. An oversized sign supporting the riding's UCP candidate greets everyone as they arrive. The latest Global News/Ipsos poll indicates that many decided voters are on the same page, with 50 per cent of leaning and decided voters now saying they support the UCP compared to the NDP's 40 per cent.
Cussins says that while he knows a change in government won't guarantee a change in economic fortune, he's hopeful just the same.
"If people feel that the government is working for them and they're pro business and going to get things moving, people will change their attitudes."
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Kennedy could have run as any Non-NDP Party & might have won....

 
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Shannon Phillips got re-elected. She’s the Dipper Environment Minister that said the government didn’t want to spend any money on landfills because, in three years, there won’t be anymore garbage
 
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Mr Harper is in the room tonight listening to Mr Kenney's acceptance speech which appears to be covering every single plan the party has for the future of Alberta. Like how he made a point of addressing Quebec directly - and in French.



Rachel's speech was gracious - I'm glad she won her seat and that she will be the Leader of the Opposition.
 
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Yay! Doug Ford west. Alberians are sooooo lucky.


And in the fall, Canada will have our very own Trump wannabe. Yippy.
 
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After Alberta’s election, ‘nothing good to come’

UCP wins Alberta election – here’s a look at the promises made by Jason Kenney

Scrap the carbon tax
One of the first things the UCP has vowed to do as government is scrap the NDP's carbon tax.
The UCP said Bill 1: The Carbon Tax Repeal Act would scrap the tax on "everything," creating 6,000 jobs.
The party plans to replace the tax with a program targeting large emitters of greenhouse gases.
The new program would be titled Technology Innovation and Emissions Reductions, or TIER, and take effect Jan. 1, 2020.
It is similar to the old Specified Gas Emitters Regulation program launched by the Progressive Conservatives in 2007, and replaced by the NDP in 2018.
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The NYT weighs into the Alberta election

Trudeau Faces a New Foe as Conservatives Retake Power in Alberta

Jason Kenney won big — and the Ottawa-Alberta relationship is about to get unruly

Jason Kenney’s Alberta: Open war for business

Fire up them diesels it's time to get back to work
 
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Hoid said:
Scheer and Kenney are bit players compared to Ford.
Doug Ford is the Fuhrer now
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Uh oh, Mr. Emotional Relativist is digging out more assfacts, desperately trying to make himself feel better as his ALT-left retard world is starting to crumble around him.
 
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"retard" is another white natty magic word.

Like "tide water"
 
Jinentonix

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Hoid said:
"retard" is another white natty magic word.
Like "tide water"
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Everything you don't like is "white natty" related. That's why you're an idiot.
"Tidewater" is a white natty word? Holy f*ck dude, you have officially lost it. Your cheese has slipped off its cracker.
If you follow mainstream media you’ve probably heard the argument ‘we need to get our oil to tidewater’ ad nauseam.
Be it Natural Resource Minister Carr, Prime Minister Trudeau, Premier Notley or pipeline and tar sands industries, it’s a drum beat that’s building in intensity.
So what you're saying is that the Minster of Natural Resources, Rachel Notley and even Groper himself are "White nattys".
Why, here's that well known and rather infamous "White natty" Rachel Notley explaining how Alberta needs access to tidewater. https://globalnews.ca/video/3013334...-tidewater-notley-on-ending-albertas-landlock


Your problem is you have diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of thought.
 
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