I'm not entirely sure that Taft's resignation really addresses what happened in the last provincial election for the Alberta Liberals.
When the bigger issue facing Alberta's politicians is apathy on the part of the voter, and an environment where the governing party has been in power so long that it will likely take nothing less than a revolution to unseat.
The only thing I am critical of Taft for is not hammering the Tories at every turn with the material out of his books "Shredding The Public Interest" and "Democracy Derailed" As far as I can tell, the only way that the Alberta voter will consider an alternative is to see up close and personal what kind of ugly sense of entitlement thirty years in power creates in a political party.
In failing to hold the PC's accountable for their actions (or inaction as the case may be), Taft made it too easy for Stelmach to create the impression that the party has changed. (More recent events such as their self-awarded pay raise calls that into question, to be sure)
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Well, maybe he's a nice guy, but as they say..
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST..
The leader of the opposition needs to be a street fighter with balls, not some academic in his ivory tower..
I hope the Liberals make a better choice this time..
The pay raise was well-deserved and long overdue. In fact we should increase it further.
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That raise was justified how? There was no debate over it, there was not a shred of justification, and the government went ahead and wrote itself a pay increase well beyond the rate of inflation in Alberta (and much beyond what anyone in private enterprise has received in recent years!)
This was done as 'Order In Council', by a government that is barely a few months old. They haven't done anything to justify a raise of that magnitude.
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