At long last, I can take some pride in my provincial government’s stand on climate change. These are very exciting times; congratulations to all who helped play a part.
Finally, we are doing something good on the carbon situation. It’s late, but it’s a start.
Premier Rachel Notley is to be congratulated for this unprecedented effort; having representatives from the oil industry and environmentalists on stage with and backing her plan is a huge achievement.
The opposition can continue with the old, tired line that change is impossible and will doom us forever. There are 4.164 million reasons — one for every Albertan — why the status quo is unacceptable.
I would have preferred the tax begin in 2016, but I accept that waiting until 2017 will give those most directly affected time to plan.
As a now-transplanted, longtime Alberta conservative, I can’t resist an “I told you so” on the Alberta NDP election victory and the party’s climate-change plan. Get out your wallets, Albertans, and taste what your socialist party is really all about: taking your money and destroying your jobs.
Rational thinking, never a strong suit with the left, is the victim. When citizens pay governments more money, citizens have less to spend. When they have less to spend, fewer employees are required for the products and services they may have purchased. When fewer employees are required, unemployment increases, alongside crime statistics.
Now add coal workers to that unemployment line. Remember that China commissions about 100 coal-fired power plants annually. That is taking one for the global team!
Enjoy the outcomes of your psychotic break last election and learn from this for the next 3½ years and counting.
Instead of having everybody and their dog paying for this sheer lunacy, only those who voted for Premier Rachel Notley’s party should be responsible for paying the piper.
One wonders how many would admit that they had indeed cast their vote for people whose economic irresponsibility can only bring Alberta — and the rest of the country — to ruin. Couched in the politically correct clichés of an ideology that has been failing all over the world, these people run roughshod over everything and anything that makes sense, including basic laws of economics.
The climate-change plan speaks of achieving its objective by 2030. Let us hope that by that time, Ms. Notley and her crowd will be a long-forgotten footnote in Alberta’s political history.
How ironic that our premier announces taxes that will hurt a lot of people, then jets off to meet with Justin Trudeau and later a luxury trip to Paris, all at a time when Alberta food bank usage is up the most in Canada.
This commenter is obviously a residential landlord whose nose was out of joint about potential legislation allowing a woman who was in a serious domestic abuse situation to break her rental agreement, without penalty, to flee the situation.
I do agree the landlord should not be held solely responsible for the lost revenue that might result; however, this particular landlord took off on a rant about the NDP government. No mention was made of the fact that for 44 years, we had a government that primarily served landlords and the corporate sector, while totally ignoring the issue of domestic abuse. A far more creditable case could have been made had she commended the NDP for having the intestinal fortitude to address the issue, then proposed an effective and fair way of resolving it.
According to CP Rail CEO and U.S. citizen Hunter Harrison, the headquarters of the proposed Canadian Pacific/Norfolk Southern Railway will probably not be in Canada.
Is this the “last spike” in the U.S. takeover of our country? Sir John A. Macdonald called the building of the CPR our “national dream,” as it opened the West and united our nation from Atlantic to Pacific. Thousands came from across the seas to realize their dream of living in a free and safe land. Entire cities and towns today owe their existence to the CPR.
Why are there still calls to bring in Syrian refugees by Dec. 31 when this does not allow time for proper security and background checks? I am for the refugee influx, but only after thorough checks are completed.
The thought of fast-tracking applications when many refugees have no identification at all rankles at a time when I, as a Canadian-born citizen, am still waiting for my PAL (possession and acquisition licence for firearms) after more than three months.
It takes time to properly screen potential refugees, not to mention all the manpower and millions of dollars needed for ongoing surveillance after their arrival. One of my freedoms is to feel safe in my own country, and fast-tracking threatens to take that freedom away.
Edmonton will soon be one of many cities asked to support and welcome some 1,500 Syrian refugees. They will need a staging place until paperwork and security checks are done, and until homes are found and they get oriented on how things work in our country. We should take advantage of this one-off event to get the old downtown remand centre back up and running specifically for this purpose.
We have a safe, secure facility that is waiting to be used. So rather than spending on temporary accommodations, use that money to get the centre up and running initially for this purpose. Afterward, we can turn the facility over to Homeward Trust Edmonton, and they along with groups such as The Bissell Centre and Hope Mission can use it toward ending homelessness. Then we can change the building’s name to the Welcome Centre.
Irresponsible owners are to blame for vicious dog attacks as any animal can become aggressive without proper training and supervision. These owners have ruined their animals, making them anti-social and letting them think they are in charge. Typical victims, meanwhile, are defenceless.