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Thought I'd put up a thread to keep track of the pinko commie bastards. ;) (For easy access & future referral...)

Oh, look who Rachel hired to be Chief of Staff for our Energy Minister!

Ezra Levant: Meet Alberta’s new colonial chiefs

A Toronto anti-oilsands activist – still registered as an anti-oil lobbyist – is now running Alberta’s energy department.
What could possibly go wrong?

Not only that, but:

There are twelve ministers in the Alberta cabinet, including Notley herself, each with a chief of staff. And ten of those chiefs are, like Mitchell, NDP activists from other provinces, many of whom will commute each week to Alberta from Vancouver, Toronto, or elsewhere.
M'bold.

Nice. First off, any guesses who foots the travel bill?

Second:

There is something weirdly colonial about non-residents being sent in to run a province to which they have few or no ties. It feels as if the NDP believes Alberta lacks people with talent and judgment to govern themselves. It feels nepotistic – highly paid consolation prizes for failed NDP activists from other campaigns.

Like Nathan Rotman. He worked on Olivia Chow’s unsuccessful campaign for Toronto mayor. Now he’s the chief of staff to Alberta’s Finance Minister.

Was there no-one in Alberta with any financial background? No socially conscious businessman, or even an NDP-friendly professor or think tank economist? Four million Albertans, but not one who understands Alberta’s fiscal situation better than an Olivia Chow door-knocker?
M'bold.

Yep...

Further:

Wildrose charges NDP energy minister's top staffer was anti-pipeline lobbyist

The Wildrose Party says it’s a troubling sign that the NDP energy minister’s top staffer was registered as a federal lobbyist for an organization opposed to pipeline projects proposed to ship Alberta oilsands crude.
 
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Poor sport. You really don't understand how elections work, do you? Your party lost. You'll have another shot in three and a half years.


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So the rate is not too bad. I don't think they have gutted the economy, this would have happened no matter who was in. But I think both Alberta and Ontario have voters remorse.
 
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Pure. Class.

"Two-faced" Notley laughs about farm-killing Bill 6 at NDP party
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Still more on Minimum wage:
Notley back down? Not a chance. Way too much ego at work in that little power trip she's on...
 
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In all fairness, for those who think the Alberta NDP's plan is so grossly unfair. View attachment 64441


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Alberta is gouging because the taxes were not necessary, given its resource base. The NDP should have slashed spending and gutted the public service middle management fat cats.
 
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A government so terribly inexperienced that they did not properly research their pre-election promises and now are backing away from 'some or all' of them. Figures with Dippers, doesn’t it?

Alberta's finance minister says low oil prices may force him to hit the brakes on millions of dollars in initiatives promised by the NDP government such as child-care benefits, school fee reductions, student hiring and environmental retrofits.

Joe Ceci said in a year-end interview that some or all of a dozen programs set to begin in the 2016-17 fiscal year may be delayed.
Alberta's finance minister says low oil may delay programs, initiatives
 
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A government so terribly inexperienced that they did not properly research their pre-election promises and now are backing away from 'some or all' of them. Figures with Dippers, doesn’t it?







Alberta's finance minister says low oil may delay programs, initiatives

Everybody breaks election promises in response to the ups and downs of the economy, including all of your favorite Con men. Nothing surprising here. You act like you've never seen this before.


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Further on the cost of that Carbon Tax.

Alberta's New Carbon Tax Will Cost Over $1,000 per Albertan Annually

Where is this 3 to 4 Billion dollars per year (more later) to come from?

Well, there is really only one answer; it might be somewhat invisible, but we Albertan's will have to pay it, and that my friend works out to about $1,000 per person per year, or $4,000 per family of four. And if it brings in $8 billion in a few years, that is over $8,000 per family of four per year. We will pay it in the form of higher transportation costs (both public and private); higher heating costs and to a lesser extend in the cost of everything we buy from groceries to toys.
I have a question for those of you on the public teat: teachers, nurses, government workers, etc...Is your wage increase for the next 3-1/2 years under the NDP going to cover even the cost of this Carbon Tax, let alone everything else they're going to be gouging us for?

Are you starting to feel the squeeze from this gov't yet?

FJN, you've been teaching a while. You're making something in the neighbourhood of $70,000/year (unless you've got your Masters and/or are in administration). You might get a 5% increase (but I doubt it) in the next contract. Ballpark, that's a $3500 raise over the next 3 years or so. Assuming you are married with no kids, at a $1000/person/year that's 6 grand coming out of your family budget over the next 3 years.

That means you'll owe the NDP another $2500, after your raise. And, if you have children, add another $3000 each. And, that's assuming the NDP don't raise the Carbon Tax.

Any of this starting to sink in yet?
 
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Further on the cost of that Carbon Tax.



Alberta's New Carbon Tax Will Cost Over $1,000 per Albertan Annually







I have a question for those of you on the public teat: teachers, nurses, government workers, etc...Is your wage increase for the next 3-1/2 years under the NDP going to cover even the cost of this Carbon Tax, let alone everything else they're going to be gouging us for?



Are you starting to feel the squeeze from this gov't yet?



FJN, you've been teaching a while. You're making something in the neighbourhood of $70,000/year (unless you've got your Masters and/or are in administration). You might get a 5% increase (but I doubt it) in the next contract. Ballpark, that's a $3500 raise over the next 3 years or so. Assuming you are married with no kids, at a $1000/person/year that's 6 grand coming out of your family budget over the next 3 years.



That means you'll owe the NDP another $2500, after your raise. And, if you have children, add another $3000 each. And, that's assuming the NDP don't raise the Carbon Tax.



Any of this starting to sink in yet?

You really ought to do your homework more thoroughly, amigo. Alberta teacher salaries and collective agreements are easily searchable on the web. I'll answer your question if you improve your guessing accuracy.


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