The_Cat
Senior Member
With Alberta reaching five million people, where does the UCP think the population has grown?
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David A
Senior Member
They remind me of Bouchard when he led the Quebec PQ, everything was a new humiliation. After a while it gets a bit tiresome, I feel they are just cranky unhappy people in general.
The_Cat
Senior Member
Premier Danielle Smith overhauls Alberta cabinet, names three new ministers
Friday's cabinet shuffle saw three new ministers named and several ministries restructured but no major names were dropped from cabinet.
edmontonjournal.com
David A
Senior Member
Although bigger than anticipated, mostly a shuffle, with few new faces, none very exciting.Premier Danielle Smith overhauls Alberta cabinet, names three new ministers
Friday's cabinet shuffle saw three new ministers named and several ministries restructured but no major names were dropped from cabinet.
Now we have multiple Ministers of Health, which adds to the cost and confusion, but I suppose matches the structure below.
This is the type of cabinet shuffle a tired government trying to give the appearance of action makes.
The_Cat
Senior Member
I wonder if the UCP and Alberta Republican Party votes will be counted separately:
edmontonjournal.com
Three Alberta byelections, including two in Edmonton, called for June 23
Voters in Edmonton-Strathcona, Edmonton-Ellerslie, and Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills will held to the polls in just under a month's time.
edmontonjournal.com
constance_chlore
Active Member
This is grim.
Poll suggests Alberta voters' honeymoon with Danielle Smith and UCP endures
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
A fair amount of that is likely related to galvanization related to the federal election outcome, and Nenshi's consistently underwhelming leadership. Most news outlets also quickly stopped discussing the healthcare scandals.
constance_chlore
Active Member
Yeah, so where is Nenshi anyway? It's the job of a party leader to put the party's agenda in the public eye. I see Nenshi's posts on Instagram sometimes, but that's not where most Albertans are getting their news...
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
Mostly booing from the sidelines. A recurring theme seems to be "UCP proposes new Pedestrian Exploder in Downtown Calgary. Opposition leader Naheed Nenshi has criticized the project, saying it will not make dental care more affordable."
IMO, the NDP provincially are struggling for the same reason they got crushed federally, a fundamental lack of good policy direction. Just saying "nuh uh" to whatever the right wing party has going on.
northlands
Senior Member
Wait till after the by-election if/when Nenshi is elected to an actual MLA seat. Unelected leaders typically don't generate a lot of respect from either the media or general public.
Oilguy
Active Member
The counter to that would be starting your counter campaign early isn’t necessarily a good thing. It’s early in the mandate, I think the UCP are actually generally doing a good job of harming themselves most days, so if you are the NDP, let them.
You will have to pivot to what you will do as government but not quite yet,
David A
Senior Member
Yes. Notley, for all her strengths obliterated Kenney and the UCP, but unfortunately it was a year and a half before the election so they had time to replace him and change direction some.
In politics timing isn't everything, but it is fairly important. Now is the time for the opposition to do important perhaps behind the scenes work that will help out in a couple of years time and not just yell loudly about things that can not or will not be changed in the meantime.
ADob
Active Member
I eventually unsubscribed from the NDP emails because it was all "ooooh, the UCP are so bad, they did X, Y, and Z". Yeah, okay, I already know what I hate about the UCP, why don't you tell me what you will do about it or any new policy ideas you're proposing?.... Next email: "hey, lookit this, the UCP are so bad, they did X, Y, and Z". Repeat ad nauseam. Got tired of it pretty damn quickly.
kcantor
Senior Member
In other words the NDP emails about the UCP are just like the UCP emails about “standing up for Alberta” because the Ottawa Liberals did X, Y, and Z and how they refuse to do what Danielle demands they do so she’ll hold her breath until they do or until she turns blue.
policyenthusiast
Senior Member
The Alberta Daily News Index Summaries also used to contain unbiased updates from the GoA under Kenney, but since Smith took power they contain a lot of this:
And here's the UCP email format where they ask for money once every 3 minutes:
I just want to know what's happening in government, but the government mostly seems to prefer issuing propaganda. At least Taproot is still good.