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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.

No misusage, just your inability to comprehend.

That's a red herring. Economic impact would not worsen if they were to be defunded and forced to be self sufficient. In fact, it would likely grow. Taxpayers can choose what they want, native rights are entrenched by treaty and protected by the constitution. It's not a choice they can make. If the CBC had the same protection and guarantee of support, I suppose I would have to begrudgingly move my objections to other things that irk me.

We would get the same as we are getting now. Saying otherwise is just boogeyman politics. Over the last 50 years there has been no drop in First Nation funding when the PC/CPC have held power. The Liberals have promised the moon, but never delivered on any of their promises, The best party for FNs would likely be the NDP, but they will never be in a position of power. Also, I, and most FN people deeply resent the Indian Act and feel it is an obstacle to both self governance and native prosperity. Only one party has actually listened to our leadership on that.

True...but it's how they should work. If a majority of people do not find value in their tax dollars funding the CBC then it should be defunded. There are things such as health care, infrastructure, OAS, etc that are absolutely not within the scope of that. Crown corporations with the exception of utilities, however, need to be weighed by merit of the dollars they receive. I quite frankly believe that the CBC does not add a billion dollars of value to Canada and that government should not be in this business anymore. You suggest taxes don't work like that and I agree to some extent. However, governments tax, and they decide where our tax dollars go. I will vote for parties that spend on what I feel is important, and will not vote for those that don't. That's how we get a say, DIRECTLY, in how taxes are spent. Taxes aren't a right of government. They do not have carte blanche to spend our tax dollars as they see fit, nor to raise them at their whim. I agree with politicians who will cut government waste. I haven't seen anyone do it yet, but I like the concept.