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Alberta politics is a gong show compared to the rest of the country really. The oil industry has really made Alberta an outlier. I mean in every other province Notley would be seen as a Conservative. About the closest she can get to the left is small C. Alberta is not a province that a centrist or left of centre party by everyone else's standards could ever get elected.

Absolutely there is no comparison in cost per mile from a purely operational aspect. I would love to see what the difference is when price of vehicle difference/maintenance factors are worked in. I saw one done between a Tesla Model 3 and some other car one time on a year to year total cost analysis and the Tesla edged out the gas vehicle but it wasn't by a huge margin. This was a Canadian study side by side of two brand new vehicles of the same class and comps. I would imagine the electric would run away with it now given the absurd gas prices. I don't think there is any argument from anyone that electric cars are cheaper to run than gas cars. I think any reluctance towards electric vehicles now will be the lack of infrastructure, battery capacity, and high cost to buy. Once these obstacles are overcome, one would be foolish, (especially here in Canada where hydro is cheap) to not own electric. I could understand other areas of the world where hydro is very expensive and there are caps on usage and huge infrastructure and generating shortcomings being more problematic though.

Yea...the last thing Canada needs is more wingnut politics from Alberta but I think you are right. No, it's not. How can the provinces be expected to agree to pharmacare and dental care without knowing what increase in medical transfers would occur,

Absolutely, the provinces are guilty of that as well.

I am aware that the transfer payments were cut by the Cons and then not addressed in any way by the Liberals and both parties are guilty here. However, there has been no tangible discussion on pharma or dental care funding increases at all with the provinces. Why on god's green earth would they ever agree to taking on these behemoth health care costs without any idea of what the compensation structure would look like. You can't blame the provinces for this. This was simply virtue signalling and flag waving by a federal party with absolutely zero serious intention of meaningful discussion with their provincial counterparts about an actual implementation plan. It is a hallmark of our current federal government unfortunately.

Maybe...but at this point I would think that anyone not named Kenney would massively benefit the UCP party of Alberta.

More for developing a quicker release I would think.

And so they should imo. The feds have been underfunding health care transfer payments for many years now. Add pharma and dental and offloading the costs on the provinces is not going to get anyone to agree to it.

Sure, Of course there are star IMPs that make just as much as NATs. The comparable is a low/mid tier IMP to a low/mid tier NAT. The difference in salary is pretty staggering. If Bryant was a NAT he is likely 50-60k a year richer than he is now too. That being said, supply vs demand and that's why the NATs get the money compared to an IMP of equal calibre. I think some of the players resent getting beat out of jobs by players based on their passports, and they may not like that NAT ham n' eggers get paid as much as many quality IMP starters but that's not a dressing room issue imo. It is something that very likely many IMPs dislike about our league rules but almost certainly don't have hard feelings towards the NATs in their dressing rooms that sign the best contract they can get. Pretty sure that every IMP in the Winnipeg dressing room is pretty happy for Demski, or Wolitarsky, (eg) when they sign new contracts. Just as, I am sure, our NATs are quite happy for the IMPs when they get new contracts with big raises.

I guess one has to ask what part of the federal plan was so odious to everyone asked to administer it. The NDP's best shot is against a Kenney led UPC.

I would be careful what I wish for. You are quite likely to have Premier Brian Jean next and those Wild Rose guys are further right then Kenney.

Same in Manitoba. The level of POed is not that high amongst players towards NATs in the locker room. To a man, every IMP is gonna dislike the NAT content rule but they aren't going to beef about the team mates that benefit from it in the locker room. Lalji is out to lunch on that one. The players know full well no one in the locker room makes the rules, and they won't blame any player for squeezing out as much salary as they possibly can.

IF Trudeau decides he's had enough. That may be the biggest problem facing the Liberals right now. Convincing Trudeau to leave may become problematic, although indications are he may step aside. Freeland is no magic bullet for the Liberals, she is the front runner though no doubt about it but whenever a leader leaves there is jockeying within the rank and file and it can get quite nasty. I would think that if Trudeau reads the tea leaves and retires gracefully before the next election that the Liberals chances of getting Freeland entrenched within the ranks goes up exponentially. If it's an ugly divorce after an election loss or 3rd consecutive underperformance then things could blow up real good. Like it or not, Freeland is tied pretty tight to the Trudeau brand as his hand picked successor.

I agree. Everything goes through the PMs office in Liberal cabinet. I don't know how that could even be disputed. I would think most parties operate in this manner to some extent. The message has to be controlled. When a leader is ousted it is messy business. Very few leadership transitions go smoothly if the leader has overstayed his welcome. Trudeau is rapidly approaching that point.

Wab is still disliked by a lot of people who are unhappy about the current government and voted for them before. If this comes down to a referendum on Wab then the NDP may lose steam. I suspect they know this though and will run a campaign where he is not as outfront as many leaders are during a campaign. If they hide the Wab factor people will vote NDP again, if they don't many will plug their nose shut and vote PC again if the PCs can rally back to simply not shooting themselves in the foot continually. Wab isn't even particularly popular amongst us native voters, and we really would love to see a native premier....just not Wab.

The only hope the PCs have for the next election is if the NDP shoot themselves in the foot somehow, or if the Liberals really pick up steam in the city of Winnipeg. I can see the former happening but not the latter. There is a lot of discomfort with Wab Kinew amongst swing voters as well but Heather would have to run a perfect campaign and gain a lot of points between now and the next election. You won't see that kind of infighting. Might have happened if Pallister stuck around but it won't happen before the next election.

I'm not sure they have enough time to turn things around, nor a leader that can take over an election campaign.

That's all fine and good but read the act as to what constitutes a violation of these terms. Private clinics and hospitals do not unless they operate outside the Futures of Medicare provision of the act.

Privatizing health care by definition of the act you are quoting applies only to privatizing medicare. It makes no mention at all of allowing private enterprise into the existing framework. You need to read more than a few sentences of something before drawing a conclusion. The public administration part has nothing to do with how the health care is provided, it is about how it is paid and how that payment is administered. Please explain to me how under a medicare system of payment a private clinic, or hospital threatens universal health care. It doesn't. As long as access remains equal to all under the current medicare program I am not sure what anyone's objection is to a private hospital other than banging the drum of union politics. I challenge you to back up your claim that the minister of health said they want to privatize health care. You are making a lofty, and unfounded, conclusion with no basis in fact. Allowing private clinics and hospitals IS NOT privatizing health care. This is boogeyman union politics. https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/03/17/privatization-of-health-care-claims-are-categorically-false-ministers-spokesperson-says.html Their combined support is less than 50%. Not sure what numbers you are going off of. At any rate, I don't see the issue either. Whether they formalize and agreement or not, the NDP has been propping up the Liberals for the better part of 3 years now and nothing was going to change.

Read it and I see no basis for with holding funding for private hospitals or clinics under this act if health care is paid for under a government administrated medicare system.

Polling indicated that the PCs are favored to win the seat. We shall see I guess. Either way I'm fine with it. I am also OK with change on the provincial level, just wish Wab Kinew wasn't the leader. I don't like him and I think in an election campaign he will cost the NDP votes.

If nothing changes that is a loss for the NDP as well. Things changing for the Liberals is a worse loss. Unless the NDP win the seat this will be a bad day for them. It is not the federal governments jurisdiction and it would be a politically boneheaded thing to do.

If the Liberals win the seat both they and the CONs come out ahead. Yes, the CONs lose the seat and short term it is bad but a strong Liberal party only favors them in the long run. That being said I suspect that Obby will win comfortably. The NDP has the most to lose today if they don't win the seat. I agree that a strong third party would be beneficial to Manitoba.

Measuring hard money he is 17. Measuring with bonus he is 11....and his bonuses are of the easily attainable variety. Considering he is an IMP I think he is fairly compensated and his placement on the list is about right. Shaddup you whippersnapper. Yep, I love them too, and the McDoubles as well. Like I said if it is a burger chances are I'll like it, unless it's some kind of gross frozen patty or something.

I like them all for different reasons. All the mom and pop burgers too. Just a burger ***** I guess.