change tack to what? Antagonizing and pissing off “the other”? Mobilizing progressives, helping them gaining ground - for sure. Name calling and trolling is not going to help.

Now think about this fact: last election conservatives knew they were threatened by NDP, so you’d expect all the UCP loyalists to show up, but in fact turn-out is lower and results are way worse than prior election. In other words if we assume that those 70% contain more UCP supporters (or secession folk) I can’t find plausible evidence to support that. So that’s their entire electorate give or take a few thousands. The rest wants nothing to do with them. If it wasn’t for FPP, AB governance would look very different. But like I said earlier - none of the parties (NDP included) is willing to change that.

look at the math: 60% turn-out, of which 52% voted UCP… that makes it ~31% at best. Which is my point. With FPP whoever is not willing to vote for any of the “major contestants” doesn’t feel like their vote matters. So you’ve got 70% who did not vote for UCP for one or other reason

that tone is rather inflammatory. See my other post for more details but bottom line is that governing party was elected by about 30%-ish of population and they (UCP) intentionally promote more, shall we say, extreme (or, “uneducated” as you say) portion of the electorate. So painting entire AB with one brush is the same form of uneducated rant you’ve accused Albertans of. They are (like the rest of the country) trapped in FPP resulting in… this. And every party that grabs the power immediately abandons idea of changing to proportional representation because they know they are not majority despite the appearances.

fun fact: Conservatives use preferential elections internally 🤔

UCP has majority only thanks to FPP. There’s plenty Albertans who’d vote different but feel trapped between two parties (Liberals are a non-existent entity there). I can guarantee you that anecdotally and from pure math majority government of AB represents views of 30% of it’s population, meaning 70% did not vote for tham. And of those 30% representation only a very vocal minority is driving separatist talk… We can all thank FPP for that.

sorry, what?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-lays-out-his-plan-for-the-biggest-crisis-of-our-lifetimes-1.7514504

Carney didn’t deal with unions, Liberals did. I don’t think there’s a single instance on memory where they did not man-handle unions.

Carney did claim recently $28B cuts will be comming. Liberal heavy handed behaviour towards unions smells of authoritarianism… so yeah freedom curbing is coming, we’re just not sure on packaging and potency

wait until after election. Something tells me that two main contenders are eyeing to curb some freedoms to various degrees. Arguably Conservatives being on a more authoritarian track with Liberals tracking not too far behind

Freedom is not well-being. We’re free to express frustrations, demands and desires, however government doesn’t feel obligated to act on it… So scores are probably right (for the moment) but it does not translates to human rights charter being fully implemented/supported by government.

they don’t have to be parasites. They do have a role but they are out of control. Government regulation should keep greed in check, and yes, it’s not up to real estate businesses to decide that foreign investors can screw up locals.

this country barely survived that guy before, I don’t think we can survive more of his policy ideas …

Page? I’ve had a feeling he was steeling by chapter…

ridiculing should have no place in public discourse, period. ever. Constructive dismissal however is a legit way to deal with populism and idiocracy

very typical con move: invent an enemy, make threat imminent, crank up insanity, bust controls, drop reporting, claim victory.

he’s like those “zero fat” snacks full of sugar and unpronounceable crap…

yes. In all fairness we’re to elect the worst of two evils thanks to FPP election system. Any other party (NDP included) is not entering the picture because Politics became team sports supercharged with FPP. Despite my full dislike of Libs I will likely pinch my nose and vote for them, just because in my riding there’s no chance is freezing hell NDPs or anyone else can take a seat from Cons…

YES. Next question.

lets elect Conservatives… that’ll put a stop to those exports! right?