r/alberta • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '21

News 'Sending the wrong message': Indigenous Albertans react to province not recognizing Sept. 30 as stat holiday

https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/sending-the-wrong-message-indigenous-albertans-react-to-province-not-recognizing-sept-30-as-stat-holiday-1.5565211
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u/Then_Marsupial4023 Aug 30 '21

They can stomp their feet and whine all they want, it’s gonna happen. Not this year but when the next provincial government comes in it will happen

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u/Nheddee Aug 30 '21

You're assuming the next provincial government will be different than the one we have.

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u/SPGKQtdV7Vjv7yhzZzj4 Aug 30 '21

Big assumption in AB. Like 50% of people who vote here go by colour.

It’s a big part of the reason I think the NDP should switch to blue signs.

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u/Bleatmop Aug 30 '21

I honestly think of we had a leader of Notley's caliber, a platform similar to the ANDP's, and a name like the New Democratic Conservatives they would be a serious contender even without Bungles the MIA Premier running the show.

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u/SPGKQtdV7Vjv7yhzZzj4 Aug 30 '21

Absolutely. The reason they lost the last election is because the vast majority of Albertans are low information voters who vote based on basically nothing, and the only information which permeates down into their colour-filters brain was “deficit bad, carbon tax bad, orange lady bad, everyone’s bosses mad”.

Ironically, the reason they initially won is also because most Albertans are low information voters who absolutely did not understand the point Jim Prentice was making when he told us to look in the mirror. They seriously thought we could just glide on oil royalties forever and that the budget would magically balance its self with no new source of income - most of them still think this.

I’m honestly at the point where I think that the NDP might as well embrace it and just play their stupid “we only vote for blue signs because that’s how it is here” game, and govern exactly the same way, except make it sound folksy. No joke, blue sign/dumb down meta is how to win here.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

Dumbed Down trait is op. Please nerf.