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This is literally false, the NDP never held Alberta before 2015, the party that controlled Alberta before Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives was the Social Credit Party, which came to power in the Depression era with the promise of Social Credit (an idea similar to that of UBI), which was then struck down by the courts as being unconstitutional as the program would have overrode federal jurisdiction.

The SoCreds were viscerally socially conservative, especially under Ernest Manning (father of Preston Manning), and Lougheed was incredibly progressive in comparison to the premiers before him; a literal Progressive Conservative where he was socially progressive, and fiscally conservative.

Editing this to add in the fact that Lougheed realised that oil wouldn't be able to hold the province up forever, and thus started the Heritage Fund to save for further developing and diversifying the economy. This fund literally partly inspired Norway's Government Pension Fund, showcasing that Lougheed was on the right path with what he'd done. You are defacing the best premier this province has ever had, and placing the faults of the Klein government and governments that followed onto Lougheed unjustly.

Let me ask you something, why the fuck would the feds help Alberta? For real though, why would they? I remember back in 2014 in the middle of the oil crash watching coworker after coworker get laid off from their high paying O&G jobs while the federal government extended EI benefits to them, continue to blame all their woes on a liberal government that had nothing to do with a middle eastern, Russian and US Shale production Oil glut. Alberta continues to play the victim in federal politics saying "Ottawa never helps us" even when the liberals bought and funded the completion of a pipeline that was so unpopular that it barely made it across the finish line and had to be forced through jurisdictions that didn't want it there.

And okay let's talk Danielle smith and fucking diversification. Who fucking cares about hydrogen cars? Who's using them? What are people actually using, OH BEVS AND PHEVS, and they are a pretty good solution with sound technology? WEIRD. Maybe she shouldn't have put an axe through our solar and wind renewable market and scared of investors from the province with the excuse of "windmills messing with the view of the Rockies" but slyly pushing for coal mining in the eastern rockies at the same time. I mean I can walk out my front door right now, walk across the street and look at a natural gas processing plant fucking flare up with the rockies as a back drop.

You want the feds to support Alberta farmers? Tell them To stop voting conservative, every single fucking time. Make them into a voting block that will vote for whatever party will actually move away from aligning on every US policy even if its detrimental to our relationship with foreign (Chinese) buyers.

Fucking joke province sometimes.

It is so easy to go out there and support our canola farmers through tariffs on olive oil and other cooking oils, as well as marketing campaigns to Canadian consumers, yet that doesn't happen.

You'd not only run more tariffs - already usually a mistake - just to prop up a sector so people don't have to switch crops?

I was educated in Calgary, but I worry they've slipped.