The Alberta of the Future
It turns out that Premier Klein takes the retirement age seriously. The Calgary Herald has an article today saying that at the end of the month he will announce his retirement date (h/t CalgaryGrit). When will the Dynasty end? If I'm doing the math right it will be October 31st 2007 (One month before his 65th birthday). I'm hoping that I'm doing the math right because that is just the best darn birthday present Ralph could get me.
In other news, Jim Dinning, former Education Minister under Donald Getty and Provincial Treasurer to Mr. Klein, is well on his way to being crowned Prince. I'm a Liberal in
Historically,
If only life were that full of irony...
UPDATE:
Jim Dinning has an official website up and running here. (via)
FURTHER UPDATE:
It's worth mentioning that Ralph's 19 month retirement window is even longer than the timeline Chretien set (another record broken by King Ralph) but according to this article, he's now kicking leadership aspirants out of cabinet. I'm not certain that this isn't a way of keeping current caucus members out of the race and thus reinforce Jim's campaign. Another page out of Chretien's book.
posted by Michael Crook @ 3/14/2006 01:00:00 PM
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VANCOUVER (CP) - Alberta Premier Ralph Klein denies he's the "Darth Vader of health care," setting out to destroy the Canadian health system. Klein told a fundraising luncheon for the blind on Friday that the typical reaction outside of Alberta to his suggested health-care changes has been to sound the alarm bells. "Once again we're looked upon as the bad boys of health care, the renegade province," he said. Klein told the crowd of about 200 people that Canadians need to have a serious discussion about health care because the system isn't sustainable in its current form. "I haven't come here as the Darth Vader of the health care. I'm not out to destroy the public system as we know it today," he said. He said the Canada Health Act wasn't brought in to prevent change. "It's not there to stop innovation dead in it's tracks and it's not there to protect a health system that can't deliver timely service." Klein said governments are throwing more money at health care, yet the results aren't getting better.
What Alberta's Premeir Ralph really means about discussion is that it should be all his way still? and he should be doing all of the disucssion talking, and not any opposition members, who he too had wrongfuly tried to shut up, even persons like me. And yes putting pails into pails full of holes is realy a bad management skill, it is just as bad as appointing incompetent pretentious Health Ministers at the federal and provincial levels now too, and that is also something I have said for the last ten years too.
I got another undeniable fact for you if all of the pretentious mostly Premiers, PMs and Health Ministers had really wanted to find a real solution you would have done it a long long time ago.
Ralph Klein still is not generally respected outside of Alberta and my own experience is that Alberta lacks even adequate basic justice, even good police forces . . It is still a real, fact that the governments, federal, provincial, municipal ones and the related politicians, civil and public servants in Canada do still make too often an unacceptable mere pretense of serving the good welfare of the citizens, and any related justice for them as well. Let's face it most of them cannot be trusted. Politicians, Civil and public servants, so called professionals too.
The real other major problem with boasting about an Albertan energy based economy, is it is volatile, unstable, and prices can drop just as fast as they rise too.. and the economy with it.. as it happened in Alberta in the 80's already.. for history often repeats itself. By the way inexpensive electricity is what keeps even the Quebec industrial economy thriving and how is Alberta very expensive electrical supply coming along? Montreal's cost of living is lower than that in Alberta and the population of the Island of Montreal still exceeds even all of Alberta.. they can even out vote the Albertans thus.
The second reality to basically note is that the Liberals too are still now are really reaping what they personally had sowed, mostly cause and effect.. their clearly unpopularity with 70 percent of the Canadian voters, is mainly due to their undeniable tarnished reputation that has now even seriously stuck with many voters, more than the supposed great economy.
"Canada must be a Just society Pierre" Elliott Trudeau.. The next Liberal Prime Ministers wrongfully readjusted translation of this mandate that was, and that is still going forward, is that Canada today must all be just for any of the Liberals to profit with anyway they can, even by their cheating, lying, stealing, and even by false denials cover-ups. Speaking of a just society on Canada too most Canadian citizens really even now do not really believe that the past pr present Liberals PMs were, are carrying our real justice in Canada.. for clearly rather political and civil servants corruption, alcohol and drug abuses, tax evasions has increased Canada wide under the Liberals even. Canada is considered one of the most political corrupt countries in the world under the Liberals too... so much for a just Liberal society.. all still really unacceptable. Prime Minister Paul Martin says the second half of the federal election campaign was to be about "values" — absolutely the wrong word to use.. it automatically conjures in my mind many liberals abusing the tax payers moneys and that they the Liberals really have no values, no values of decency, honesty, accountability, truthfulness etc.. Captain Liberal Canada P M now says he wants to look after the good welfare of all Canadians.. he and his liberals for 12 years had their chance to do so and instead his Liberals were too busy helping themselves. Zebras cannot change their own stripes and so I do rightfully not believe the bad Liberals will ever change.. and of the new proposals by the Liberals are so Good why did they not put them into office 12 years ago instead of pressing them now when they are being kicked out of office. I liked the truthful NDP and the Conservative adds showing how bad the Liberals were and still are it really seems.. over the dishonest too Liberal adds... just more Liberal lies.
Funny how they too the Liberals rarely still do think they will reap what they sow, face real negative losses too. The past Liberal PM Pierre Trudeau went from landslide majority in 1968 to bare minority in 1972, not just because he had introduced official bilingualism, liberalized divorce and legalized homosexuality. His fortunes next sank largely because the economy soured and unemployment rose between his first election and his second. Next even his own wife divorced him with the Liberalized divorce laws.. the cause and effect. The Liberals next under Paul Martin went from a majority to a Minority government too.. due to cause and effect, even due their inaction or poor actions on issues such as inadequate justice being served, gun registrations, taxpayers money abuses, incompetent managers. Trudeau's ex wife went on to be a drunk driver now as well. The resulting fruits are too obvious.
Speaking of economics the Tax cuts implemented by Liberal and Tory governments between 1984 and 2000 have amounted to $250 billion, going mainly to the top 20 per cent of income earners. During the same period, ordinary Canadians have been hit by even unprecedented Liberal cuts in the funding of public health care, education, child care, affordable housing and the other essential services. The Liberals were swept into power in 1993 with promises to restore basic social services downsized by the Mulroney Conservatives. But once in office they the Liberal liars, promise breakers had wasted no time in further slashing many state-run program all while helping themselves to more money too. Some people say that in the current 2006 fderal lection campaign, now both political parties are trying to lure all voters with new and renewed promises of social spending and tax cuts, without any definite detail plans to look after the needs of all Canadians, to also save Canada's faltering social programs such as the low cost housing, affordable university education, decent medical care. The rich wrongfully continue to despise the poor both federally and provincially too and is another main reason the BQ are more popular in Quebec.
The supposedly Rich province of Alberta, Albertans, Progressive Conservatives and Conservatives, are now even asking for more and more increased social aid even for businesses from the Canadian federal government, they in reality now are becoming more and more socialists, NDP, Liberals..
The Myth that Alberta is one of the richest provinces in Canada is a false myth developed to propagate their very still critical needs still for more economic development capital into the Alberta and more support personnel too.. the Alberta government found out the hard way many times you cannot ever hope to run a whole province solely on the generated home property taxes now, or the Income taxes of oil and gas productions.. or even on farming, beef.. for Alberta generally still has no existing manufacturing industries to even tax in the first place.. Alberta it is rather an major importer still. On top of that actual financial Mismanagements by the past Albertan Progressive Conservative governments was the main reasons they also had failed to make any signify economic business development in Alberta besides solely increasing the number of vehicle speeding tickets generation, beer, alcohol, gambling outlets which are socially overall non beneficial, productive still too... In reality Alberta today and in the future is an significantly economically backwards, underdeveloped province still.
Fact check Reality: "Business leaders in Calgary are trying to put Alberta's chronic labour shortage on the election radar. The Calgary Chamber of Commerce has sent letters to the leaders of the federal parties asking specifically what they'll do to address the problem. The group said increasing immigration may be key to solving the shortage of labour – and for that, they say federal intervention is required." " In a recent survey conducted by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, 42 per cent of respondents said a shortage of skilled labour is critically affecting their day to day operations. Dan Kelly of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, said the federal government should do more to improve the skills of people in the existing labour pool. For example, programs that get people off employment insurance and back into the workforce would "help solve this very troubling issue," he added.".. you cannot expect to train the many people needed without providing also for low cost housing, low cost living too.. and you still cannot even really import and keep them too. Alberta will have thus major problem of being a really still backwards province economically, socially for decades thus.. and so it is now starting to advocate more and more NDP, Liberal views.
I have only lived 15 years in Red necked, racist Calgary Alberta.. and firsthand per my own witness I too have discovered what an immoral Progressive Conservative police state it is full of crooked, abusive lawyers, crooked Realtors, crooked pastors, crooked accountants, bad police services, bad pretentious politicians and too many bad doctors, very expensive dentists too... on top of that rich Alberta is a very costly place to live with the price of homes, rents ( no rental controls generally and non existent consumer protection too) being very high, mostly single family home sand few apartments available, , while the price of everything always going up including home taxes, electricity, heating.. a clearly non social, unfriendly, despise the poor persons, racist governments cannot expect to attract and to keep the workers.. many other people who had been to Calgary told me they had the same bad experiences.. and all of this is undeniable.. and the unacceptably abusive premier himself Ralph Klein is also a bad reflection of what too many people are really like in Alberta. I have often sadly said that the federal Conservatives first also do need to get their own house in order, bad Calgary Alberta even before they can realistic manage bad Ottawa.
"(Revelations 3:18 KJV) I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. "" (Dan 4:27 KJV) Wherefore, O king, (Ralph and Martin ) let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity."
For one of the most significant undeniable aspect of the Birth of Jesus Christ in a Stable is that he came to the poor persons first.. so all of you do now stop robbing the social welfare, the poor of their money.
The tourist oriented city of Calgary specifically is a Service town, white collared workers mostly.. meaning specifically it is made up of University, trade schools, Colleges, Schools, Hospitals, Hotel, Motels, Restaurants, Churches, Shopping centers, Warehouses, Office buildings, Realtors, pastors, Police, Firemen . It still has almost a non existent manufacturing industries. Many farmers are moving to this city. It has been rapidly expanding in home constructions and thus there is a large demand of construction, skilled trade personnel, plus a shortage of car mechanics, house hold appliances repair persons too and for the last three decades now too.
But it really surprises me when 42 percent of those surveyed by the Calgary of chamber of Commerce say they do really now lack skilled workers to hire now.. specifically workers with what basic skills? a high school education or what.. or is it rather the very same old problem that most of these minimum paying jobs still really do not cover the very high cost of living in Calgary and it is why more people do not move to Calgary? They will always have these problems too till they first do resolve their very high cost of living problems too.. As for the rising wages in Alberta, they are mostly still even being eaten up by very high, rising rents, property and school taxes, increasing costs of insurance, fuel, electricity and consumer goods.. wow..
"Time to still first clean up one's backyard of Alberta? " Actually, really now who enforces any of the Professional standards and who honestly does investigate the related wrong doings, it is done by a totally unrelated independent body of competent judges, or mainly being done by the still masturbating self regulating bodies, or just as bad the also really incompetent commissioners ?
Unprofessionalism is the valid term rather, and yes today it applies to too many of Alberta's so called professionals such as doctors, nurses, lawyers, cops, wardens, and even by law enforcement officers, etc..
Especially when it is likely most of these out of towners likely lied on their resumes to get their jobs in the first place. Many person in Alberta have admitted to me they lie, they even lie on their resumes, they even have different resumes too. The average person lies once every 5 minutes, so why not the rest? Perjury even to the Queen's courts is still an unacceptable practice that rarely gets prosecuted now too
Too many bad cops still in Alberta today Even in the provincial capital, In Edmonton. "Voices of discontent More citizens complaining about cops . More Edmontonians were complaining about the service they were getting from city cops last month - Citizens are still wrongfully and mainly allowed to be heard one time, one day , during the election.
As far as these cops, enforcement officers do seriously face it so many of these poorly educated persons are mostly still thugs especially in the backwards province of Alberta today where it is still really difficult to hire someone competent based on thee ridiculous salaries being offered to them compared to the actual high cost of living in Alberta.
So concern about the cops in Alberta is rightfully escalating these days too.. Such concerns such as " Armed transit cops slammed Civil liberties group says measure goes too far. An Alberta civil liberties group says arming special constables isn't the best way to make public transit safer, even though it's a growing trend across Canada." " Call out for more native cops Stronger policing in violence-plagued Hobbema is a saving grace, but more native cops are needed to be fully effective, says a spokesman for the Samson Cree Nation. " New powers over peace officers Province to have right to order investigations into actions of special constables The province will have new powers over municipal peace officers under a new bill being debated in the Alberta legislature. "
Here is the truth a related joke, a masturbation one rather, now I personally had met, known knew of a chief peace officer who for years and years stole, lied, lied even to get his job on the city of Calgary and he next was never stopped or reprimanded. His Bosses rather covered up for him.
"The province will have new powers over municipal peace officers under a new bill being debated in the Alberta legislature. Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko says the new Peace Officer Act will give the director of law enforcement authority to conduct investigations of peace officers - also known as special constables - hired by towns, counties and other employers. He said one of the goals of Bill 16 is to increase the level of oversight and accountability of peace officers. "It ensures the municipalities conduct a proper investigation," Cenaiko said. "If there's a concern there, the director of enforcement can order another investigation or he can call in another police resource to investigate." Currently, the director can suspend or cancel a peace officer's appointment, but their employers are responsible for reviewing complaints of misconduct. Under the new act, employers will still have that responsibility, but the director will have the "the power to review, oversee or investigate a situation that may be more serious in nature or if the complainant isn't pleased with the outcome of a review at the local level," Calgary-Hays MLA Art Johnston told the legislature last week.
But still how many cops are actually really punished now for wrong doings per year? one? There are too many bad cops still in Alberta today. The police complaint process and their conclusions are still rather still pretentious too often too. I have been complaining about bad cops the first time I met a bad cop in Calgary in 1980's and I have yet to have one complaint of mine, even about Alberta's bad RCMP adequately dealt with since that time.
Are Calgary cops still driving home from the Police tavern they do now frequent too often? I also do attribute the bad cop scenario in Alberta, Canada due to their initially hiring bad, immoral persons to be cops, especially any of the Toronto rejects. ... Alberta also is pretentious, pretentious, pretentious and all Unprofessional, Unprofessional, Unprofessional,
"Federal officials are investigating an Ottawa-area public servant for alleged abuse of a government credit card. The unidentified employee of Public Works allegedly bought $545 worth of tickets to attend a minor league baseball game featuring the Ottawa Lynx. A document obtained under the Access to Information Act indicates an internal financial official alerted the department last August. And a preliminary review by Public Works' fraud directorate found evidence supporting the allegation, the document says. A spokesman for Public Works, Pierre Teotonio, declined to provide details on the case. "We cannot comment further until the matter is investigated fully," he said in an interview. Several federal departments and agencies have been rapped by auditors in recent years for credit-card abuse by employees, including Fisheries and Oceans, Justice and the Canadian International Development Agency"
The bad Ottawa circus also goes on and on and on and on and on and on...none of this is acceptable now too. I often ask the Question if these elected politicians, the related managers and supervisors now are looking after us all, our tax dollars mow too, how come it is not visible evident?
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