About those truckers around Alberta

I could not be a politician. People in Southern Alberta vote conservative. They got a hospital expansion, new windmills funded by the carbon tax and a cannabis growing facility is under construction. Guess who they will vote for again.


With the coverage of the idling semis polluting and bitching about pipelines, you wouldn't know that the current government is pushing for and approving pipelines while Alberta leads in wage growth and business development. All that's on the street is some oil company withdrew from Alberta because they didn't like regulations.

Granted it's hard because I live in a one industry town and being on the border we don't get a lot of the advantages of other centers. It's also hard to see gains when at a personal level you don't have the spending power you did before. With reduced oil production - requested by many producers there will probably be another round of layoffs but that's the way the oil industry is. Make hay while the sun shines but as a worker you'd better be ready for rainy days.

Parties are going to talk up their platform as we enter an election year. The party in power has to tout their accomplishments - especially in hostile environments. You may wonder where they're getting the funding for school improvements - from cutting back perks for superintendents. Money for WCB but dumping a $1 million salaried position (plus perks). Overall less pork barreling. Never popular. And for some reason GSA in schools is a big deal.