Big Surprise; NDP Has Only White Candidate In Edmonton-Millwoods

[Anonymous]

Big fucking surprise a white ideology like socialism has a white candidate in a heavily minority riding.

Sohail Quadri-PC(incumbent)

Christina Gray-NDP

Bobby Malalang-Liberal(I met this Pinoy)

Baljit Sall-Wildrose

[Anonymous]

The dippers solution to too may snivel serpents is hire more of em. ac_rollseyes I guess spending around 2/3 of revernue on salaries and benefits is not enough for that idiotic twat Rachel Notley.

The contrast among the three major parties in the provincial election over the optimum size of government couldn't be clearer.



Wildrose wants government noticeably smaller. The Tories claim to want it smaller (and hope you won't notice they are making it bigger).



Meanwhile, the NDP are for all-out expansion, as if the current economic downturn weren't happening and as if Alberta's public service wasn't more than large enough already at 200,000 workers.



On Wednesday at a party rally in Red Deer, Tory Leader Jim Prentice, told supporters that if his party is re-elected, it will impose a three-year wage and hiring freeze on the public sector. No unionized government workers will receive pay raises until the provincial budget is back in surplus.



That's a decent move.



Alberta's public-sector wages are the highest in the country — well over the national average. Holding them steady until 2018 will help bring them more in line with those in the rest of the country.



But that is also a very slow, gradual response to a very large, immediate problem.



The alternative is layoffs. But under Prentice, the Tories have proven themselves too timid to go that route.



In the coming year, despite a decline of more than 13% in revenues, the Prentice government plans to trim the public service by only 1%. Given that the typical annual turnover rate among MUSH-sector employees (Municipalities, Universities, Schools and Hospitals) is just over 5%, that means the Tories do not plan to trim the public-sector workforce even by as much as the rate of attrition.



Prentice's announcement of a hiring freeze, may deal with that. But Finance Minister Robin Campbell's March budget would have permitted the province to keep hiring about 4% new workers every year.



In Red Deer, Prentice also claimed "we are making government smaller."



And he repeated his claim that over the next three years his Tories will trim $8.6 billion from provincial spending.



Neither of these claims is exactly true.



First, the $8.6 billion "cut" is not really a cut. Rather it is a slowing in the rate of increase. Very little real money will be saved (only about 0.6%), but if you double and triple count the amount of money the Tories would have spent if Alison Redford had remained premier (but which the Prentice government now says it won't spend) — presto! — you've saved 8.1%.



Put more simply, the Tories spent $48.7 billion last year. They will spend $48.4 billion this year, $48.9 billion in 2016 and up to $52 billion by 2019.



That doesn't sound like "smaller" government to me.



By contrast, Wildrose has already pledged to cut 1,600 managerial positions at Alberta Health Services.



That's less than 1% of AHS's 118,000 workforce, so it's manageable. It could be achieved without affecting frontline workers and patient care.



Given that AHS's budget has doubled in the past decade, and given that at least half of that (and very likely nearer 70%) has gone into bureaucrats' wages and expense accounts, 1,600 should be considered the very least that must be cut.



It could also help the government save a billion dollars or more.



On the other end of the spectrum, NDP Leader Rachel Notley has insisted she will not follow through with even the Tories' tiny staffing cuts.



Instead, she will replace the $160 million cut from the $19-billion health department in March's budget.



Then she has promised to add nearly $1 billion more, so even more public-sector workers can be added to the current 200,000.



Health care's problems of too-long waits and too-few beds are not the result of too little spending, but rather of too much government administration.



Take your pick. For once the choices are clear.

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[Romero]

Big fucking surprise a white ideology like socialism has a white candidate in a heavily minority riding.

Sohail Quadri-PC(incumbent)

Christina Gray-NDP

Bobby Malalang-Liberal(I met this Pinoy)

Baljit Sall-Wildrose

Really? You believe socialism is a "white ideology" and you're against a white candidate in that riding?

[Romero]

Wildrose wants government noticeably smaller.

That's funny, the Wildrose Party just got smaller.

Wildrose Candidate Russ Kuykendall Punted After Anti-Gay Blog Post Surfaces



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[Anonymous]

Big fucking surprise a white ideology like socialism has a white candidate in a heavily minority riding.

Sohail Quadri-PC(incumbent)

Christina Gray-NDP

Bobby Malalang-Liberal(I met this Pinoy)

Baljit Sall-Wildrose

We saw on Global News on Monday that the NDP has a big lead up in Edmonton..



There could be a lot of change after May 5..



I met former NDP leader Brian Mason..



If I was to vote in this election, I would vote for the NDP.

[Anonymous]

I would never vote for the NDP. Their anti resource development stance is the primary reason why. The Dutch disease comments by Thomas Mulcair have been proven wrong as Ontario's factory orders continue to fall even with a low dollar. I would like Ontario to develop the ring of fire, but the NDP opposes that even though it would mean revenue for our debt addicted government and good paying jobs.

[Anonymous]

Everywhere where Chinese people run the government, taxes are low and public enemy number 1. If Chinese were the majority in right across Canada, we wouldn't have to worry about a socialist party forming any government. ac_dance

[Mel Gibson]

Everywhere where Chinese people run the government, taxes are low and public enemy number 1. If Chinese were the majority in right across Canada, we wouldn't have to worry about a socialist party forming any government. ac_dance

I can help you with a one-way flight back to China, if you really want it.



You'd have to chop up your Canadian Passport, and denounce your citizenship of course, but I can make that happen!



There are lots of Chinese in China, so it should be a good fit for you!

[Anonymous]

Everywhere where Chinese people run the government, taxes are low and public enemy number 1. If Chinese were the majority in right across Canada, we wouldn't have to worry about a socialist party forming any government. ac_dance

I can help you with a one-way flight back to China, if you really want it.



You'd have to chop up your Canadian Passport, and denounce your citizenship of course, but I can make that happen!



There are lots of Chinese in China, so it should be a good fit for you!

I have heard that Mel Gibson..

 ac_toofunny

I hope everything goes well in your new job.

 ac_smile

[Anonymous]

Everywhere where Chinese people run the government, taxes are low and public enemy number 1. If Chinese were the majority in right across Canada, we wouldn't have to worry about a socialist party forming any government. ac_dance

I can help you with a one-way flight back to China, if you really want it.



You'd have to chop up your Canadian Passport, and denounce your citizenship of course, but I can make that happen!



There are lots of Chinese in China, so it should be a good fit for you!

Fuck you!! acc_angry

[cc]

I must admit that I laffed @ what mel said. You did set it up for him.



Forgive me for I have sinned

[RW]

I'm laughing too while hiding behind cc.  



Hahaha

[Anonymous]

I'm laughing too while hiding behind cc.  



Hahaha

Shenli is trying to stir the pot.

[Anonymous]

I must admit that I laffed @ what mel said. You did set it up for him.



Forgive me for I have sinned

Yeah well, maybe just this one time.

[Anonymous]

The NDP might very well win every single seat here in Edmonton. Latest opinion polls put them at something like 64%. They could even form a minority government.



What would a Rachel Notley government do you ask? A reversal of the very timid cuts to our bloated public service, higher taxes($1.1 billion in the first year alone), an acceleration of Alberta's dubious distinction as the province that spends the most per capita on civil servants and activists such as the Parkland and Pembina Institutes and the David Suzuki Foundation setting economic and energy policy.

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