Alberta is a broken province. The people here are single issue voters, and that single issue is always “it better not be a damn liberal”.
For a province that’s voted conservative and had a conservative premier since 1971 (aside from 1 term in 2015), we sure like to blame all our problems on the other parties.
Our last 2 premiers ran on platforms of reducing healthcare and education spending. And now my kid has a harder time in school because they have way less resources, teachers are underpaid, and half the healthcare workers (nurses and doctors) fucked off to B.C. and Sask.
The conservative solution to the problem they created (on purpose of course) is to privatize healthcare and schooling. And the people are eating it up claiming they wanna pay less taxes. We already pay less taxes here than the rest of the fuckin country.
But for some reasons all my neighbors think about is “trans people are evil” and “Ontario is stealing our money!” So, we continue to be a blue province.
However, Trump is losing favor here pretty quick with 25% tarrifs on our oil and farm goods. when those 2 things are 27% of our GDP and employ about 8% of the province, it hurts pretty bad.
Most of the people I know are not okay with Americans right now. I’m in Alberta tho.
That is surprising. I would anticipated the opposite in Alberta.
Alberta is a broken province. The people here are single issue voters, and that single issue is always “it better not be a damn liberal”.
For a province that’s voted conservative and had a conservative premier since 1971 (aside from 1 term in 2015), we sure like to blame all our problems on the other parties.
Our last 2 premiers ran on platforms of reducing healthcare and education spending. And now my kid has a harder time in school because they have way less resources, teachers are underpaid, and half the healthcare workers (nurses and doctors) fucked off to B.C. and Sask.
The conservative solution to the problem they created (on purpose of course) is to privatize healthcare and schooling. And the people are eating it up claiming they wanna pay less taxes. We already pay less taxes here than the rest of the fuckin country.
But for some reasons all my neighbors think about is “trans people are evil” and “Ontario is stealing our money!” So, we continue to be a blue province.
However, Trump is losing favor here pretty quick with 25% tarrifs on our oil and farm goods. when those 2 things are 27% of our GDP and employ about 8% of the province, it hurts pretty bad.
“Well, they’re very… sensitive.”
-BC
Same here in America. It’s frustrating to know that half the people you know or are related to want the world to burn under an orange king.