[Canada] Canadian Politics Redux

[Barrister]

Don't say things like that if you don't mean them!

I have been talking about this happening for about a decade now

You've been wanting it to happen for a decade now you mean.

Both really.

You will recall I have been very happy about the Reformer social conservative wing nuts being silenced within the Conservative party.  That was necessary for the Conservatives to occupy the centre right.  Now the NDP are poised to fully occupy the centre left.  Years ago Jacob and I debated whether this would be a good thing.  I thought then, and I still think, the country would be better off with the NDP and the Conservatives competing for the middle.

I don't know that there's any real difference whether there are two or three parties vying for power.

[crazy canuck]

I don't know that there's any real difference whether there are two or three parties vying for power.

Look at the current poll Sask posted.  If those percentages hold then the Conservatives and NDP have an incentive to become more ideologically driven to get their base out to vote.  Without the Liberals in the middle both parties have more of an incentive to moderate their positions to appeal to that constituency as well.

[Barrister]

I don't know that there's any real difference whether there are two or three parties vying for power.

Look at the current poll Sask posted.  If those percentages hold then the Conservatives and NDP have an incentive to become more ideologically driven to get their base out to vote.  Without the Liberals in the middle both parties have more of an incentive to moderate their positions to appeal to that constituency as well.

You forget who you're trying to convince though - I want the Conservatives to be more ideologically driven. 

[Grey Fox]

It would ease your nanny problem atleast.

[crazy canuck]

I don't know that there's any real difference whether there are two or three parties vying for power.

Look at the current poll Sask posted.  If those percentages hold then the Conservatives and NDP have an incentive to become more ideologically driven to get their base out to vote.  Without the Liberals in the middle both parties have more of an incentive to moderate their positions to appeal to that constituency as well.

You forget who you're trying to convince though - I want the Conservatives to be more ideologically driven. 

I am not trying to convince you.  I want the Conservatives to have to appeal to people like me.

[Barrister]

So Notley's cabinet will be sworn in this Sunday, almost three weeks after the election.  They won't introduce a budget until the fall.

I'm telling you - amateur hour.

[Josephus]

Given that it's a bunch of inexperienced people, one should be glad they took their time picking the cabinet, no?

[crazy canuck]

So Notley's cabinet will be sworn in this Sunday, almost three weeks after the election.  They won't introduce a budget until the fall.

I'm telling you - amateur hour.

I have heard that criticism in the media but I don't understand it.  Notley appears to be taking a careful and considered approach to who should be in her cabinet.  The exact opposite of "amateur hour".

[Grey Fox]

They weren't ready to lead/form the government, the minute the results were announced, therefore "amateur hour".

[Barrister]

So Notley's cabinet will be sworn in this Sunday, almost three weeks after the election.  They won't introduce a budget until the fall.

I'm telling you - amateur hour.

I have heard that criticism in the media but I don't understand it.  Notley appears to be taking a careful and considered approach to who should be in her cabinet.  The exact opposite of "amateur hour".

They should have had a transition team in place months ago.  Typically new governments are sworn in about one to two weeks later.

[frunk]

So Notley's cabinet will be sworn in this Sunday, almost three weeks after the election.  They won't introduce a budget until the fall.

I'm telling you - amateur hour.

I have heard that criticism in the media but I don't understand it.  Notley appears to be taking a careful and considered approach to who should be in her cabinet.  The exact opposite of "amateur hour".

They should have had a transition team in place months ago.  Typically new governments are sworn in about one to two weeks later.

Months ago nobody expected them to have a chance in hell, including you.  How often do parties have transition teams in place for elections they are sure they will lose?

[crazy canuck]

So Notley's cabinet will be sworn in this Sunday, almost three weeks after the election.  They won't introduce a budget until the fall.

I'm telling you - amateur hour.

I have heard that criticism in the media but I don't understand it.  Notley appears to be taking a careful and considered approach to who should be in her cabinet.  The exact opposite of "amateur hour".

They should have had a transition team in place months ago.  Typically new governments are sworn in about one to two weeks later.

If it is typical to wait as much as two weeks then I would have thought that being only one week off that mark is a very good result in the circumstances.

[Barrister]

So Notley's cabinet will be sworn in this Sunday, almost three weeks after the election.  They won't introduce a budget until the fall.

I'm telling you - amateur hour.

I have heard that criticism in the media but I don't understand it.  Notley appears to be taking a careful and considered approach to who should be in her cabinet.  The exact opposite of "amateur hour".

They should have had a transition team in place months ago.  Typically new governments are sworn in about one to two weeks later.

Months ago nobody expected them to have a chance in hell, including you.  How often do parties have transition teams in place for elections they are sure they will lose?

Although I thought it was a foolish strategy, when Brian Jean started the campaign he said he was running to be the leader of the opposition.

But Notley said from the very beginning she was running to be Premier.  If so, she should have acted like it.

[crazy canuck]

But Notley said from the very beginning she was running to be Premier.  If so, she should have acted like it.

You are being petty now.  So far she has sounded like the best Premier Alberta has had in quite some time.

[Barrister]

But Notley said from the very beginning she was running to be Premier.  If so, she should have acted like it.

You are being petty now.  So far she has sounded like the best Premier Alberta has had in quite some time.

She hasn't said or done anything yet.

And unless "in some time" means since 2006, the best Premier of Alberta in some time was Ralph Klein.