NDP to table budget one week after overlord mulcair is done campaigning

[schocker]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmont...ocks-1.3240023

Her government's first budget, which will be tabled the week of Oct. 26, will act as a "shock absorber" to cushion the bumpy economic road, Notley said.

No cuts at all to public sector as stated by ceci remember.

[FraserB]

Anyone surprised? NDP government makes those who are "too successful" pay more, even when no jobs are around, but increases union/public sector jobs

[M.alex]

How can they believe this drivel?
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A good environmental record is now "the price of admission" to the very export markets Alberta resource companies are seeking
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Because the world has stopped buying goods from places like China

[revelations]

No one should be surprised. The NDP are the same all over Canada because each provincial party reports, and bows down, to the federal NDP demands.

History always repeats itself because:

a) humans are too stupid to look at other examples of NDP stupidity in Canada from the last 25 years and b) humans forget recent history

[davidI]

So happy I moved out of Alberta.

[JRSC00LUDE]

What? NDP cronyism protecting their largest corporate lobbyists, Unions? Noooooo.....

[Aaaaaron]

Increased infrastructure spending is a good move.

[revelations]

At least AB cant end up with this specific example of monumental waste ..... 500 million $$ in the toilet in BC in the late 90s after the NDP decided how, when and where to build ferries and ignored all recommendations from people who actually knew about these things.

They ended up being sold for LESS than scrap by the Liberal govt -

[phreezee]

She's too busy campaigning out east for Mulcair.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/09/2...echoes-mulcair

The day after federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair announced his plan to introduce a second National Energy Program (NEP) if he is elected on Oct. 19, Alberta NDP Premier Rachel Notley was in Montreal Monday announcing our province’s surrender to Mulcair-like thinking.

No doubt the NDP will object to my characterization of their platform as NEP II. Too bad.

Mulcair proposes a national cap-and-trade scheme. Companies that are large-scale emitters of carbon dioxide would have to buy carbon “credits” – a form of carbon tax – that Mulcair would then “redistribute” to other provinces.

That is exactly what the NEP did back in the 1980s. It imposed an excise tax on oil (i.e. on Alberta), in order to raise funds that Ottawa could redistribute to other provinces.

Mulcair’s NEP 2.0 would impose a carbon tax that would disproportionately punish greenhouse gas emissions. Since Alberta remains the nation’s largest energy supplier, this tax would fall disproportionately on us.

Alberta is already far-and-away the largest per capita contributor to Confederation, just as it was during NEP I. But just as Pierre Trudeau didn’t care about that in the 1980s (because we didn’t vote Liberal), Mulcair is unimpressed with Alberta’s current contribution because we are unlikely to elect many NDP MPs.

Like Trudeau, Mulcair sees Alberta as a bad provincial citizen that must be forced to share more of its good fortune with provinces that are more likely to vote for his party, like Quebec.

Which brings us to Premier Notley and her “Montreal Surrender.”

First of all, what is Notley doing making a big announcement on energy and environmental policy in Montreal rather than in the province she leads?

Was she too afraid of the reaction if she made the announcement in Calgary or Edmonton? Or is she generally just more interested in pleasing others over Albertans?

Remember when Notley was last in Quebec in July she all but promised Quebec a veto over pipeline projects, such as the $12-billion Energy East that would take Alberta bitumen to ports and refineries in Quebec and New Brunswick.

Technically, Notley did not agree to let Quebec obstruct the pipeline over Premier Philippe Couillard’s concerns about pipeline safety, wildlife habitat, First Nations’ objections, route selection or belugas in the St. Lawrence. Technically, Notley granted Couillard the right to block Energy East only if Quebec is unimpressed by Notley’s upcoming climate change policy.

But that’s a distinction without a difference.

So I guess it’s no surprise that when Notley was speaking in Montreal on Monday she gave in – again. This time she said that even if Alberta did not go along with Mulcair’s cap-and-trade, it would be a good little province and capitulate to Mulcair’s climate alarmism and self-impose similar restrictions.

Notley also spoke fairy tales in Montreal.

She said Alberta would stop using coal to generate electricity (it accounts for 55 per cent of our supply) “without imposing unnecessary price shocks on consumers or risking security of supply.” Then she said coal would be replaced with renewable sources such as solar, wind and bio. This conversion is already being tried in Ontario with a 40-per-cent increase in electricity price already and 40 per cent more expected over the next three years.

And Mother Goose Rachel insisted Alberta “will remain open to investment,” while her government has already raised corporate and personal taxes, raised the price of carbon emissions (with much more to come), raised the minimum wage by 50 per cent and is hoping to impose new environmental regulations and even higher royalties and gasoline taxes.

A Quebec audience may think it possible to do such diametrically opposed things at once; an Alberta audience wouldn’t. Which may explain why she made her announcement there rather than here.

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[InRich]

Originally posted by FraserB
Anyone surprised? NDP government makes those who are "too successful" pay more, even when no jobs are around, but increases union/public sector jobs

Well said, by someone who's obviously educated and successful.

This year, I gave it my all, my season is about to end in about 2 more weeks, and then I'm off for the next 6 months. Next year I'm not planning on trying hard, no point, I'll just end up paying more for it. I'll be laying off at least half my crews, thats at least 11 trades that now need to find new jobs, in a shrinking market.. Hope Alberta chokes on its NDP decision.

[dirtsniffer]

We're already fucked. But if the federal NDP win they're going to take away the lube.

I hope Hitempguy is happy.

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by InRich

Next year I'm not planning on trying hard, no point, I'll just end up paying more for it. I'll be laying off at least half my crews, thats at least 11 trades that now need to find new jobs, in a shrinking market.

I thought you treated them like family? So you aren't going to try hard for them? You'd rather put 11 guys out of work, and make them and their families suffer, just because you have to pay another percent or two in taxes?

You're a real winner there pal.

[Sugarphreak]

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[g-m]

HEALTH CARE. We NEED cuts in health care. It's ridiculous. Straight up

[InRich]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


I thought you treated them like family? So you aren't going to try hard for them? You'd rather put 11 guys out of work, and make them and their families suffer, just because you have to pay another percent or two in taxes?

You're a real winner there pal.

are you an idiot? or just playing one whenever your on here? or just trying to get a rise out of me? which one is it?

If the economies gonna go to shit, people arn't gonna fucking paint their houses are they?

Guaranteed you voted NDP, your just that kinda person. dumb.

[LOLzilla]

I launched a business not too long ago and so far it has been a great success. Closing up your business because taxes rise by a couple % seems like a pretty weak excuse. Do like other businesses do and increase your rates. I suppose its just easier blaming somebody else on your success or lack there of.

[Cos]

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[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by InRich


If the economies gonna go to shit, people arn't gonna fucking paint their houses are they?

The economies already gone to shit because of $30 oil. If you want to blame the NDP, go right on ahead, but they didn't cause it. If you think it's their non existant budget is also stopping the serious players, then you're a bigger fool than you sound.

Giving up, just because times get tough, and the gravy train is over? Quite a few business owners here on Beyond, but you are the only whiny bitch about it. If you hate it so much, just go move to Ontario. Lots of work for you there.

[Mista Bob]

Originally posted by Tik-Tok


I thought you treated them like family? So you aren't going to try hard for them? You'd rather put 11 guys out of work, and make them and their families suffer, just because you have to pay another percent or two in taxes?

You're a real winner there pal.

I know right? His post reads like a childish "That will show you, NDP!!!!" outburst.

So far I haven't seen anyone on beyond back up claims about the NDP destroying the economy aside from the whole "The sky is falling!!!!!!!!" routine.
Though I suppose if enough people have a hissy fit and drop half their company, the economy would definitely tank.


Oh and before the inevitable question, not that it matters. I did not vote for NDP.