So Alberta is going on their own now?
I can't wait to see that. Can't wait to see the UCP try to manage a currency and money supply. LOOOOL! Oh, wait, they'll just use the USD? Yeah, sure, then they have no central banking tools at their disposal. And if you don't think central bank tools are valuable, then stop typing your reply and go do some graduate courses on macroeconomics and STFU.
Now you clucks have to negotiate trade with Canada and the US and everyone else. Foooooook, can't wait to see that. Ask that Sam dude that the UCP gave all the health care money to, he can get a shit-ton of bucks for nothing, maybe he can do that to other countries too.
Oh, you're going to join the US? Well, good fuckin' luck with that. Think your hero Trumpy wants more voters in the US? Alberta will be like PR, and your resources will be stripped, you'll be paid nothing for them, and you'll have no votes. But you'll finally get to have your Confederate flag actually mean something.
Hey, I get it, PP promised to get tough on woke and we all know anti-woke is everything to you because you want to be racist and bigoted in public and you really really really think white guys are the real targets of discrimination and you're a big tough guy that might get turned gay if a trans man uses the stall next to you.
The CPC costed platform was nothing short of ridiculous and sadly hilarious at the same time. It was still running $100B in deficits and had some of the wildest assumptions in any platform any mainstream party in Canada had ever put forward. Like how cutting revenue would increase revenues and by some insane amounts. No one has used trickle-down assumptions in economic forecasts in forever, because, well, it doesn't work. BUT IT HAD SO MANY NICE PICTURES. Yeah, so Albertans could "read" it, lol. The Liberal platform has some dubious shit in there, but at least the revenue assumptions are realistic even if some of the outflow assumptions are not. I raised my eyebrows a few times and then I read the CPC one, omg.
Carney didn't mention woke once. He didn't pander to you. He doesn't think drag shows are the biggest issue in the world and he doesn't give a flying fuck about rainbow crosswalks or Pride flags because in reality they don't hurt anyone. He's an adult that understands those things are just not important unless you're a deranged moron racist bigot fuckhead. He didn't go on about the raging crime that's turned cities into dystopian movies where Edmonton is basically "Escape from New York" but 2025. Because while yes, we have issues with tent cities, etc, the reality is that crime is not raging out of control and the real solutions involve poverty mitigation and not police just shuffling people around until they find somewhere that doesn't care if they're there. For fuck's sake, in his speech last night, PP talked some nightmare shit about the military in the streets to protect people. Troops in our cities? WTF?
I'm no fan of either party because it's still neo-liberal economic bullshit that licks the taints of billionaires and excludes the working class from truly participating in the prosperity created by their labour. That said, at the very least Carney didn't whine and moan and pout and be angry about everything - optimism is just a little nicer to live with than being angry and hateful all the time.