If there was a snap provincial election, would you vote NDP? POLL

[Summitric]

So in today's Edmonton Sun, they have a poll that simply asks would you vote NDP if there was a snap election....The results to this point
was 78% no, 22% yes.... looks like they're slipping even more.

would you vote NDP if there was a snap election?

 

[Cat401]

Seriously?.....do you really expect anyone on here to admit that the would vote for them? we couldn't find anyone who supported them last time....lol

 

[rzrgade]

Ohh there was a couple on here... lol
Though they are a little less
Enthusiastic post election, it would appear....

 

[rsaint]

Does voting against PC's count.

 

[LuckyOnes]

Anybody who votes for NDP clearly must be BLIND because the wrath of their leadership is everywhere.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

Didn't they finally fish the Anthony Henday

 

[snopro]

Ric use your mod powers to find the one traitor in the poll! Lol

 

[ABMax24]

I think the poll shouldn't have PC/Wildrose amalgamation as an option, if an election was called 2 months from now do you really think they could get together into one party that quick? I sure don't

 

[Cat401]

Yup, let's vote these lying ****ing thieves in for another term.....

 

[ABMax24]

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Yup, let's vote these lying ****ing thieves in for another term.....

Need to add the billons of debt added to Alberta, number of business that have sold, went out of business, or moved elsewhere, how many square kilomters of riding areas that have been closed, millions of dollars paid to shut down coal power plants.

I'm sure I've left some stuff out...

 

[Cat401]

A bit of a long read but a great article from the Edmonton Sun on how the NDP are killing Alberta's economy and they think they can spend their way out of it...........


On Friday, Alberta will mark the second anniversary of the Notley government’s election win.
To be kind, the results have been disastrous.
During their 24 months in office, the New Democrats have made nearly everything worse.
Admittedly, some of the bad news would have occurred even if the Tories had won the 2015 provincial election and extended their 44-year reign. The continued weakness in world oil prices is not the doing of the Notley government.
However, nearly everything Premier Rachel Notley and her crew have done to fix or transform our province has made matters worse. Our economy has fallen farther than the economies of other oil-producing provinces and states, and is recovering more slowly.
Our unemployment is greater than other energy-dependent economies. No other oil-reliant jurisdiction has suffered as great a loss of investor confidence. No other jurisdiction in North America — oil-producing or otherwise — has seen its income, business and property taxes rise so fast. Nowhere else has the minimum wage been jacked up so drastically.
And none of that includes the effects of environmental regulation, the carbon tax, the coal shutdown or billions in alternate energy spending. It doesn’t account for the NDP’s out-of-control spending, its wild and reckless debt increases and the financing of its “green” dreams on the backs of future generations of taxpayers and electricity consumers.
Their Bill 6 badly disrupted Alberta’s agriculture sector. And their planned reform of the provincial labour code could do the same for the construction and manufacturing sectors.
The news hasn’t been entirely awful.
Notley and her cabinet have taken solid steps towards reigning in the excesses of the ABCs — the agencies, boards and commissions that exhibited the worst of the Tories’ culture of entitlement. No longer will the CEOs of ABCs be able to pull in salaries in excess of a half-a-million dollars a year with expense allowances of $50,000 or more.
The NDP’s recent tentative labour deal with Alberta teachers (which includes a pay freeze) was also surprisingly restrained.
But that is counterbalanced by the fact the NDP have made absolutely no layoffs in the public sector and steadfastly refuse to do so. Indeed, they have taken what was already the largest provincial public service per capita when they came to office and expanded it by nearly eight per cent.
Alberta’s private sector, though, has seen massive layoffs in the past two years. During the NDP’s tenure, the province has lost 61,500 full-time, private-sector jobs. More than 200,000 Albertans are unemployed, about 35,000 of whom have been looking for work for 12 months or more.
Calgary has the highest unemployment rate (9.3 per cent) of any major city in the country, while Edmonton at 8.4 per cent is in third place. The number of Albertans who have been out of work six months or longer is roughly four times what it was when the New Dems came to office.
Consider, too, that the unemployment rate has risen from 5.8 per cent in May 2015 to 8.4 per cent now. And that increase has come at a time when the Notley clan are hiring public-sector workers at a phenomenal rate. Without the public hiring spree to mask the real unemployment figures, the rate in Alberta would be closer to 10 per cent.
Then there’s the fact that in Saskatchewan unemployment is only six per cent — more than two full percentage points lower than in Alberta. And Saskatchewan’s economy is every bit as reliant on oil and gas as ours.
Call that 2.3 percentage-point difference the Notley Bonus.
On the upside, the Notley government truly does seem to be looking for solutions to unacceptable delays in our court system.
The NDP have lobbied Ottawa to appoint more federal judges to keep up with this province’s growing population. And as of May 1, it has done away with warrants and arrests for many minor offences. These violators will now be subject to administrative punishments: Don’t pay your speeding tickets? You can’t renew your driver’s licence.
But while improving our justice system is vital, the NDP’s success there pales by comparison to the layer upon layer of pain they have created economically and fiscally.
When the NDP came to office, the provincial government was about $17 billion in debt. When they leave — if they leave — in 2019, it will be on its way to $71 billion in red ink. That kind of irresponsible borrowing is truly mindboggling.
Provincial GDP is nearly eight per cent below where it was when the NDs took over, according to the province’s own figures. Even if, as predicted, our province leads Confederation in growth this year, our economy will still be nearly five per cent smaller than on this date two years ago.
Total investment in the province is off 36.5 per cent and investment in the oil and gas sector is off 57.8 per cent. To put that into perspective, oil and gas investment in Texas and North Dakota was off less than 40 per cent during the same period — and it is returning faster there, too.
It’s no wonder Alberta, under the NDP, has fallen from the 14th-best place in the world to invest in energy to 43rd. Even our extreme-green neighbour to the west, B.C., is higher (39th). And Saskatchewan is fourth.
Last month, provincial Finance Minister Joe Ceci trumpeted the fact that the number of conventional oil drilling rigs active in Alberta is up more than 60 per cent from last year. Ceci might even have mentioned that the number of active rigs is way up over when the NDP came to power. There are 155 in the field this winter versus 52 in May 2015. That’s a remarkable 298 per cent improvement.
But the 10-year average is closer to 400 rigs.
Every rig is said to support 65 full-time jobs. So you can understand the economic effect of having so few rigs out boring holes.
To compound all these problems, the NDP seem to have no plan for getting our economy going other than to raise taxes and borrow so they can throw barrels of cash at the economy.
Moreover, all their spending is unlikely to do much to create jobs, restore incomes and grow the economy.
While the NDP have raised provincial spending by nearly 16 per cent — and while that is a lot of new public spending — it is a tiny fraction of the spending that would be released if the Notley government introduced pro-business, pro-growth tax policy, for instance.
While the NDP may be spending $8 billion more a year than the Tories did, and while some of that may be going to infrastructure like roads, hospitals and schools, Alberta is short about $35 billion a year in private-sector investment.
It’s just not possible for $8 billion in government spending to replace $35 billion in private spending, especially when government is worse at deciding where the spending should go and when the government has to tax private incomes and corporations more to raise the money it wants to throw at the problem.
You can be forgiven if you have reached this point in this column and become depressed.
But it’s only going to get worse. Albertans have only begun to see the destructive effects of Premier Notley’s carbon tax and the extent of her government’s green spending.
For instance, the NDP were so eager to shut down coal-fired power plants in the name of saving the planet they didn’t think about the impact their actions would have on electricity customers or utility companies. So now they are spending billions they hadn’t planned on to pay utilities to shutter coal-fired generators.
They will also find their expenditures will be much higher than expected when they begin subsidizing wind and solar on a large scale. And when they start limiting oilsands production. And when they pay municipalities to convert diesel buses to electricity. And on and on and on.
Already natural gas for heating homes has gone up more than a third — and that is only the start.
Chalk all this up to the New Democrats’ mindset.
If we don’t like her carbon tax, we can buy smaller cars or sell our homes and move within walking distance to work, Rachel Notley has scolded Albertans — as if it were practical to spend several hundred thousand more in order to save a few hundred on gasoline.
The NDP don’t understand small business (nor care to learn), hence their increases in minimum wage and the education portion of property taxes. They don’t understand farmers and ranchers, hence their imposition of union hall work rules on the farm through Bill 6.
They are the government of theory and ideology over practicality and common sense. And the saddest thought yet is that we are burdened with them for two more years.

 

[Q-town Ranger]

Majority of responders would vote for a non-existent party: the Wild Rose Conservative amalgam.
Quite the forum!

 

[rzrgade]

I would vote for for peewee Herman , before those crazy socialist idiots ...

 

[Stg2Suby]

Majority of responders would vote for a non-existent party: the Wild Rose Conservative amalgam.
Quite the forum!

Thanks for clarifying, we're all pretty stupid here. Looking forward to more comments from you.

 

[snopro]

Thanks for clarifying, we're all pretty stupid here. Looking forward to more comments from you.

He's getting all excited to vote in his buddy in the BC election.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

He's getting all excited to vote in his buddy in the BC election.

Easy now, let's not get to hasty

 

[52weekbreak]

Didn't they finally fish the Anthony Henday

Nope. It was a project that started four years before they were elected. They were unable to affect it's completion by getting elected

 

[snopro]

Were up to 5 in the poll. Who said Alberta was rat free anyways?

 

[neilsleder]

I hope Alberta won't make that mistake again! I know one guy on here voted ndp and knows he made a mistake lol. Can't wait till Brian Gene gets in!

 

[skegpro]

I can't wait till Shannon Phillips gets the boot, I can't stand that ****.