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Historical context does matter and population growth may help keep the numbers more manageable but as a % of GDP the debt has increased at the highest rate since WW2 under Trudeau by a substantial margin. What you will notice is that governments reigned in spending and brought down the debt after each significant spike, and that is vastly important to our economic success. The Liberals seem intent on not doing so. I am not criticizing pandemic spending, it was very much like a world war in terms of effect on the economy and the need for spending. What I will criticize is that there has been zero effort made to reign in spending since and that is very troubling to me. She is an absolute wingnut and I hope she is defeated thoroughly.

We trade risk for reward on that. The reward is that we get players a little cheaper for giving them a straight up contract. The risk is that we only retain salary savings through the 6 game and do not have unrealized bonuses to add to our end of season SMS savings.

I don't know...I mean it could...but it doesn't have to. I have been in many cities with very nice pedestrian overpasses. I can't see why they couldn't build something a little nicer than that.

Deficit spending is not one size fits all....hard to compare an 8 billion deficit to 300 billion deficit, and as I have stated earlier having a recovery plan AND STICKING TO IT, is massive. But yes, I was not a fan of Harper doing it either, nor did I excuse it. I voted against Harper's government for failing to return to balanced budgets.

It's a little overcooked, but I do like the idea of pedestrian overpass. Everyone wins.

3 things....1. Without pandemic related spending the Liberals still posted deficits that were twice as high as any year in history 2. Has the economy bounced back? The upcoming recession tells me no. 3. Deficit spending in isolation is not a bad thing when necessary. However, continued deficit spending without a recovery plan is not good financial management. Everybody is so willing to give the Liberals a free pass on their free spend because of the pandemic. Look at what was spent on the pandemic and what the overall spend is. The number is staggering.

Not great. Uneasy about the entire state of politics right now. Yes, the whole trans thing is gross. The far right is gross....as is the far left. Harper never ran deficits even remotely comparable to Trudeau's. As progressive as Alberta will ever allow her to be for sure.

I agree that the right seems to be going more right, but I disagree that the Liberals are not experiencing a sharp turn to the left since Trudeau became leader. Identity politics and massive deficit spending are things I closely associate with left of center politics and the Liberals are giving that to us in spades.

I don't think there is centrist anymore, at least at the party leadership levels. It has been completely abandoned in this polarized era of politics, and that is unfortunate. It's just too boring a style of government nowadays in this age of social media that requires soundbites that grab and a mostly uninformed electorate. There is Alberta left/right/centrist and there is the rest of Canada. All three would be considered right of centre by any other province's traditional definition imo.

EVERYBODY needs this. Particularly, anyone who advises, works on, or sets policy. It should be mandatory learning in public school and not just the obligatory virtue signalling type of course. Real in depth and unadulterated right from the grade school level. Generations were destroyed by this policy and the impact needs to be understood, so that the generations that follow don't just see the dirty, drunken Indian on the corner and instead feel a profound sense of guilt, and maybe...just maybe a desire to help this individual. Shameful piece of our shared history that must be taught and understood for reconciliation to truly happen. We don't get there without it. At this point it's worse than racism, it's combatting willful ignorance and widespread apathy along side the racism.

She would be considered slightly right of centre in almost every other province but Alberta I would think.

I agree with most of your assessment of centre with one caveat. I believe that a centrist government is one that works hard to minimize deficit spending and has plans for recovery of said deficits, and is also a government that remains pretty neutral on the size of government. The Chretien/Martin Liberals were centrist. I do not consider this free spending version of the Liberal party to be centrist. They aren't far off, but they are definitely more left leaning than centrist. Too much free spend to be considered centrist, at least by my definition.

You can cut taxes without increasing debt....especially when you are following up a Liberal government, such as this one, that it spending like a drunken sailor. By any metric, their spending levels would be a cakewalk to reduce.

The top 5 are definitely all future picks. All are likely to be NFL drafted.

If you count the tax dollars they will save me when elected, then I suppose I am. So you see no issue with the sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister being PROMOTED to ethics commissioner? My goodness the Libtards are teaching you well. She was NOT given that role under the CPC government no matter how much silly bugger you want to play.

Martine Richard steps down today. Whew..the Liberal scandals are just coming daily now. Hard to keep up.

He did so as PM for sure, a Conservative PM. His apology was on behalf of all of Canada because that was the only way to get the Liberals included in the apology since they refuse to do it themselves. Just saying, they held power for the majority of our country's existence, they could apologize on behalf of all their governments of the past as well. Most native leaders thought Trudeau would follow suit on behalf of the Liberals....so far...bupkus.

See above.

Ok fair enough...have a look at the Mainstreet poll. Pretty clear question there. I could find fall downs by every single polling company out there. 338 Canada considers Mainstreet polls to be very accurate and their methodology consistently sound. They are ranked 5th amongst 31 polling companies in Canada in terms of accuracy by Phillipe Fournier.

Nor did I define defunding. I would be happy with a CBC that simply pays it's own bills and generates it's own money. The Liberal party created the policy of residential schools to be kept and expanded in the Indian Act of 1876. There most definitely was a Liberal party then. I get it that the residential schools were around before confederation, but when Canada was created they could have and should have been abolished. Instead, whe Sir John A got caught pilfering railroads the Liberals used the opportunity to entrench them in the Indian Act of 1876. Easily the most racist and biggest piece of garbage legislation ever put forward in the history of Canada. Thank you Liberals.

No they weren't alone. Every government and church since deserves blame. I do read them and I am unclear why you think that is relevant. Obviously 46% of the people would rather source their news elsewhere than the CBC. Can't say I blame them.

Fine...then take a gander at the Mainstreet Poll. The question is not misleading at all or skewed in any way.

Well here is another poll for you then... not 64% but still pretty clearly shows that defunding the CBC is not just a few people squawking. Of those with an opinion the majority support defunding. https://old.ipolitics.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Canada_Sept_2022.pdf

They started them, and Joe Clark as leader of the opposition lobbied Trudeau to get rid of them and he refused. They were not abolished fully until 1987 by Brian Mulroney's PCs. So yeah...they definitely get their share of the blame, especially into the modern era when they still refused to close them. There sure are. I have heard and been witness to several apologies. Harper's was excellent, the Pope....well he apologized, the Anglican church apologized....haven't heard a Liberal apology yet...just saying.

This wasn't an opinion piece. It sourced an Angus Reid poll. Are you suggesting Angus Reid is biased? Yes, residential schools were a Liberal legacy of genocide. These are facts. Angus Reid poll correlates to the reporting. I am not suggesting that TN isn't biased in editorial opinion, but they had sourced a poll from a reputable polling agency. It is not just people on the right that hold these views. I have heard them from every political stripe my whole life. Angus Reid drew the same conclusions in their post poll summary. I guess you guys know how to interpret their polls better than they do.