Why wouldn't she talk about a report that recommends doing everything she put it in place to recommend? Despite the unpopularity of each recommendation?

[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably because she's leader number 2 that is quickly coming to the realization that she's lost control of the asylum. Not that she's not also a member, but holy fuck the internal politics of this party must absolutely be insane. You can't even keep up with it, it's in a constant state of chaos and bad actors trying to Out-Machiavellian the others.

It's almost like uniting was...a bad idea

[–] FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I don't think that is just an Alberta thing, the conservatives in BC are self destructing with gusto too, probably not much better in the rest of the country either. I'm loving every minute of it, what a miserable, selfish, degenerate bunch of scumbags.

[–] Threeskittiesinatrenchcoat@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The purpose of the NEXT panels, and every committee put together by the UCP, is make work projects for party cronies that need a paycheque. One committee after another where they just ignore the results and pay people connected to the party to travel around the province... Just compare how much this committee costs compared to committees put together before Smith's tenure.

When it comes to the costs of running the government the UCP has managed to take this idea of doing less while getting paid more and ran with it all the way to the bank. We're paying this huge premium for government officials and offices while the services they provide are being starved for funds to justify privatization.

It's so frustrating to see the UCP spend 10-50x the money amount on things Postmedia would relentlessly attack the ANDP for doing while in power. The media landscape in Alberta is more propaganda than actual informative news, which helped paint Smith as a moderate during the last election.