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The rhetoric and propoganda that he's been running for the past 10 years. The PCs have been saying that they're increasing spending on education, and though they are, it's only by enough to keep up with inflation and population growth. They say it as though they're actually adding extra funding. It's also selectively applied. That's just one example.
They win so many seats because rural areas are disproportionately represented, and farmers as a group are about as socially and politically conscious as granite.
No, but when you come to work drunk all the time it just MIGHT affect your ability to govern. I'm pointing out that he doesn't have the qualities that I would associate with a GOOD leader.
The NEP happened to be implemented at the same time oil prices crashed. We have no idea how Alberta would have been effected solely by the NEP.
What do I want? I want to not have to pay the highest tuition in the country for an education at the lowest-rated university in Canada. I want my profs to be able to focus on their research and teaching rather than finding outside funding sources to prevent their departments from atrophying any more than they already have.
Reliance on multinational corporations for our economy is one of the biggest problems Alberta has. Besides that, oil companies won't have a choice soon, because they'll either get to choose Alberta or one of the countries on America's hit list. Do you think it's more costly to pay a few extra royalties, or to drill in a warzone?
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