Provincial Politics

The race for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative party is starting to heat up and the front-runner (Jim Dinning) shows us that he's more "progressive" than "conservative"...

...From that, the man credited with slaying Alberta's once rotund deficit, Dinning promised to establish a "First Ten Years Heritage Foundation", to give children at risk "a healthy start."

(Loosely translated, that means new welfare on top of the old welfare system...)

He also vowed to create more post-secondary education spaces so every Albertan "bar none" can seek higher learning.

(That means more state sponsored education. Which in turn means more power for unions and higher taxes. The phrase "bar none" implies that entry standards will be lowered having the effect of watering-down the "knowledge pool". Ask any instructor/professor about the need to teach to the "lowest common denominator")

Sharon Carry, president & CEO of Bow Valley College, said yesterday "literally thousands of people are being turned away from seeking a higher education or upgrading their skills every year. Think what that does to a person's aspirations," said Carry.

(Lets be honest here, are folks being turned away because there aren't enough spaces? Because they can't afford their education? Or is it because they're not bright enough or not qualified to take the courses they wan't to take? We'll never know because people like Sharon Carry never seem to elaborate...)

"Jim's commitment to find a place for everyone is really a great signal," she added...

(Socialist / communist nations find "places" for their citizens. Free nations allow their citizens to find their own "places".)

Comments in brackets ( ) are my own.

I've given up on the provincial PC's because they tend to be anything but conservative. My vote goes to the Alberta Alliance...

Addendum: "Debris Trail" has a great post up on the state of socialism in Canada. Here's a teaser:

Yet, the Socialist class battles on as if the days of rickety scaffolds and poverty wages for hard labor were still here. They drag out any and every obscure and rare case, and attempt to push legal and labor codes even further to the left. Listening to Socialist scribes and talking heads, one gets the sense that Canada is one vast gulag of Capitalist enslavement. The fools just won’t quit.

Read the whole thing here [CLICK]