I've known Jason for 25 years. I don't like some of his politics and didn't particularly like working with him in YOW, but I would suggest that it is unwise to assume he is done or out of politics.
“What I know for sure will be that Albertans will not be part of that conversation.”
That's fairly rich, coming from a party leader for whom it is a novelty to have multiple people wanting to be the candidate in a riding.
What voice have Albertans had in NDP internal politics Ms. Notley? Oh right, no public allowed in the backrooms where your party decides internal matters.
Yes, Conservative internal politics are messy - that's because members are allowed to have divergent thoughts and even to disagree with each other.
I'm not nearly as impressed with ideologically pure parties who brook no dissent among their ranks - it smacks of either brainwashing or overt marketing (in other words, people disagree, but they're not ALLOWED to express it).
Either way, bragging about the fact that your people march in straight rows - while claiming to be the party who wants to "listen to Albertans" seems a tad disingenuous.
Or -- are you normalizing a party that ought to be two parties, saying normal party structure is abnormal? For most party-joiners, you only join if you agree with the platform basically, and get behind minor tweaks to what you believe for the sake of unity. Every party has debates about the platform, then adopts it, because broad ideological agreement.
I don't think the UCP had "broad ideological agreement" on the merits of vaccines and masks and distance, or even the deadliness of coronavirus. Or on whether or not there is a dark conspiracy of American oil interests that are using environmental groups as puppets to landlock Alberta oil. If you can't agree on basic facts, you should be two parties.
“Even in a place like Ontario, with a very Conservative premier, there was a steadier hand there and more consistency.” I'm sorry, but Doug Ford is anything but "very conservative". Sure, he's no NDPer or Liberal, but Rachel is going to have to back that up with some concrete examples.
I won’t talk Mr. Wells ear off, but this farmer won’t be taking “electric buses” to the field or anything else powered by electricity for that matter. It simply doesn’t exist. The horsepower requirements EVERY SECOND that a tractor is seeding or a combine is harvesting won’t be met by energy stored in batteries and a Honda generator at the side of the field.
Pundits and urban politicians have turned their climate action gunsights toward agriculture (especially those nasty earth killing livestock). Is Mr. Wells and Rachel Notley prepared to give primary ag producers a seat at the table, or will food production be wound down, like coal and oil and gas?
Whether she follows through is another matter, but she was clear in the interview that she wished to consult with farmers and had no expectation you'd be taking an electric bus. She grew up in Fairview, and knows that in terms of climate policy rural Albertans and farmers in particular face special challenges. It sounded like she was open to making accomodations for that.
Here’s hoping that farm leaders get a seat at the climate action table, but I’m not hopeful. People that are far removed from primary food production have manoeuvred into policy development and many have hidden agendas beyond reducing GHGs. Zealotry is a poor substitute for common sense.
I agree. With supply chains becoming more challenging, I would hope policy makers - who are inevitably far removed from production - would have greater care for our farmers. And when mistakes are made - they inevitably will be - that they are able to respond quickly to producers' concerns.
Rachel Notley, while a person of integrity and character, is still NDP. I remember listening to a cbc call in when she was in power. A parent called saying that because her government would hide if a student was in a gay straight alliance from parents he would never vote for her again. People fear the loss of choice and freedom for things like school choice and parental authority in Alberta. A lot of us also liked the degree of freedom we had during COVID unlike other provinces. So regardless of Rachel’s personal character or whatever yo-yo gets to be leader of the UCP a lot of us will vote UCP.
Call us stupid if you will, and you will, but that’s how democracy works!
Not an NDP fan as a rule, but Notley at least has some integrity and competency. She's a mom who swears she will turn the car around if the kids don't behave themselves.
The UCP are a sackfull of cats. Kinda like the fed Cons really....
Amen. I tend to view myself as a Conservative in economic and social terms, but the current crew of UCP seem - love your expression 'sackful of cats' - too dysregulated to feel safe voting for. My guess is more than a few conservatives will kick the NDP tires before they vote in the next election.
I've done door-knocking with Rachel Notley and I knew her father, Grant. She is one very strong, capable woman, and certainly someone who will have learned from mistakes and the shortcomings a newbie government made as it woke up to find itself in power.
this was great. wish we had similarly probing and revealing interviews with other leaders instead of the sound bites and ridiculous 'debates' usually on offer.
While I respect Rachel Notley, it is no secret that she decimated the Alberta economy within a short 2 years! There is no way we should ever go back to that. I lived in Saskatchewan during an NDP rein of about 8 years and I will move before I live through that devastation again! Also, you should have asked her what she thinks about Mr. Singh saying it should be illegal for people to protest against him or yell at him for not doing his job! THAT IS SCARY STUFF!!
Hi Marcie, Rachel Notley took power following the biggest drop in the price of oil since - I think it was since the early 80's? If you don't buy all her lefty nonsense, that's fine, but in economic terms she put the government behind tech that are now reaping significant dividends in Calgary, and it is the direct result of her lobbying that the Transmountain pipeline is now nearing completion. As for her views on being able to follow politicians around so you can scream at them, outside the context of a formal protest? Well, politicians on the left and right have suffered from this. It seems like a pretty good recipe for driving anyone decent out of politics.
Rachel Notley is without doubt - by any objective measurement of ACTUAL preservation and enhancement of service to ALL Albertans (economically AND socially - in Health Care and Education and Infrastructure), the best leader this province has seen since Peter Lougheed (for whom I have both voted over the past 50 years).
If government is to remain our representative effort to do for all of us collectively what we cannot do for ourselves alone - as opposed to the ever more secretive, ever more authoritarian, ever more corrupt, short-sighted, incompetent, and in service to Foreign Corporate interests before all others that is Kenney and the UCP, then the return of the Ms Notley and the NDP cannot come soon enough.
"Even in a place like Ontario, with a very Conservative premier, there was a steadier hand there and more consistency.” Ummm, as someone who has just moved out of Ontario, I can tell Notely this was definitely not the case.
Jordon Peterson? The dude who sort of quit twitter after he fat shamed a model on the cover of a magazine? That Peterson? The daily affirmation dude (still on twitter) so we can all feel good until we look away from our phones. Peterson, pffft.
I've known Jason for 25 years. I don't like some of his politics and didn't particularly like working with him in YOW, but I would suggest that it is unwise to assume he is done or out of politics.
“What I know for sure will be that Albertans will not be part of that conversation.”
That's fairly rich, coming from a party leader for whom it is a novelty to have multiple people wanting to be the candidate in a riding.
What voice have Albertans had in NDP internal politics Ms. Notley? Oh right, no public allowed in the backrooms where your party decides internal matters.
Yes, Conservative internal politics are messy - that's because members are allowed to have divergent thoughts and even to disagree with each other.
I'm not nearly as impressed with ideologically pure parties who brook no dissent among their ranks - it smacks of either brainwashing or overt marketing (in other words, people disagree, but they're not ALLOWED to express it).
Either way, bragging about the fact that your people march in straight rows - while claiming to be the party who wants to "listen to Albertans" seems a tad disingenuous.
Or -- are you normalizing a party that ought to be two parties, saying normal party structure is abnormal? For most party-joiners, you only join if you agree with the platform basically, and get behind minor tweaks to what you believe for the sake of unity. Every party has debates about the platform, then adopts it, because broad ideological agreement.
I don't think the UCP had "broad ideological agreement" on the merits of vaccines and masks and distance, or even the deadliness of coronavirus. Or on whether or not there is a dark conspiracy of American oil interests that are using environmental groups as puppets to landlock Alberta oil. If you can't agree on basic facts, you should be two parties.
“Even in a place like Ontario, with a very Conservative premier, there was a steadier hand there and more consistency.” I'm sorry, but Doug Ford is anything but "very conservative". Sure, he's no NDPer or Liberal, but Rachel is going to have to back that up with some concrete examples.
Yeah, I was kinda wondering about that....
I won’t talk Mr. Wells ear off, but this farmer won’t be taking “electric buses” to the field or anything else powered by electricity for that matter. It simply doesn’t exist. The horsepower requirements EVERY SECOND that a tractor is seeding or a combine is harvesting won’t be met by energy stored in batteries and a Honda generator at the side of the field.
Pundits and urban politicians have turned their climate action gunsights toward agriculture (especially those nasty earth killing livestock). Is Mr. Wells and Rachel Notley prepared to give primary ag producers a seat at the table, or will food production be wound down, like coal and oil and gas?
Whether she follows through is another matter, but she was clear in the interview that she wished to consult with farmers and had no expectation you'd be taking an electric bus. She grew up in Fairview, and knows that in terms of climate policy rural Albertans and farmers in particular face special challenges. It sounded like she was open to making accomodations for that.
Here’s hoping that farm leaders get a seat at the climate action table, but I’m not hopeful. People that are far removed from primary food production have manoeuvred into policy development and many have hidden agendas beyond reducing GHGs. Zealotry is a poor substitute for common sense.
I agree. With supply chains becoming more challenging, I would hope policy makers - who are inevitably far removed from production - would have greater care for our farmers. And when mistakes are made - they inevitably will be - that they are able to respond quickly to producers' concerns.
Rachel Notley, while a person of integrity and character, is still NDP. I remember listening to a cbc call in when she was in power. A parent called saying that because her government would hide if a student was in a gay straight alliance from parents he would never vote for her again. People fear the loss of choice and freedom for things like school choice and parental authority in Alberta. A lot of us also liked the degree of freedom we had during COVID unlike other provinces. So regardless of Rachel’s personal character or whatever yo-yo gets to be leader of the UCP a lot of us will vote UCP.
Call us stupid if you will, and you will, but that’s how democracy works!
Not an NDP fan as a rule, but Notley at least has some integrity and competency. She's a mom who swears she will turn the car around if the kids don't behave themselves.
The UCP are a sackfull of cats. Kinda like the fed Cons really....
Amen. I tend to view myself as a Conservative in economic and social terms, but the current crew of UCP seem - love your expression 'sackful of cats' - too dysregulated to feel safe voting for. My guess is more than a few conservatives will kick the NDP tires before they vote in the next election.
I've done door-knocking with Rachel Notley and I knew her father, Grant. She is one very strong, capable woman, and certainly someone who will have learned from mistakes and the shortcomings a newbie government made as it woke up to find itself in power.
this was great. wish we had similarly probing and revealing interviews with other leaders instead of the sound bites and ridiculous 'debates' usually on offer.
All I can say for now is, HANG ONTO THAT THOUGHT.
with bated breath!
While I respect Rachel Notley, it is no secret that she decimated the Alberta economy within a short 2 years! There is no way we should ever go back to that. I lived in Saskatchewan during an NDP rein of about 8 years and I will move before I live through that devastation again! Also, you should have asked her what she thinks about Mr. Singh saying it should be illegal for people to protest against him or yell at him for not doing his job! THAT IS SCARY STUFF!!
Hi Marcie, Rachel Notley took power following the biggest drop in the price of oil since - I think it was since the early 80's? If you don't buy all her lefty nonsense, that's fine, but in economic terms she put the government behind tech that are now reaping significant dividends in Calgary, and it is the direct result of her lobbying that the Transmountain pipeline is now nearing completion. As for her views on being able to follow politicians around so you can scream at them, outside the context of a formal protest? Well, politicians on the left and right have suffered from this. It seems like a pretty good recipe for driving anyone decent out of politics.
Rachel Notley is without doubt - by any objective measurement of ACTUAL preservation and enhancement of service to ALL Albertans (economically AND socially - in Health Care and Education and Infrastructure), the best leader this province has seen since Peter Lougheed (for whom I have both voted over the past 50 years).
If government is to remain our representative effort to do for all of us collectively what we cannot do for ourselves alone - as opposed to the ever more secretive, ever more authoritarian, ever more corrupt, short-sighted, incompetent, and in service to Foreign Corporate interests before all others that is Kenney and the UCP, then the return of the Ms Notley and the NDP cannot come soon enough.
"Even in a place like Ontario, with a very Conservative premier, there was a steadier hand there and more consistency.” Ummm, as someone who has just moved out of Ontario, I can tell Notely this was definitely not the case.
I'm not sure if she is a good fit for Alberta, but I think she'd really help bring some focus to the federal NDP.
Great Interview. Nice to hear an interview not slanted towards supporting the Liberals. As far as the NDP don't think I will ever vote for them.
Changing it up, nice. Generating some interesting comments, as well.
Alberta fashion police! Who knew?
Jordon Peterson? The dude who sort of quit twitter after he fat shamed a model on the cover of a magazine? That Peterson? The daily affirmation dude (still on twitter) so we can all feel good until we look away from our phones. Peterson, pffft.
Rachel, you go girl!
Hi Phyllis, you must know Rachel Notley and Jordan Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta and went to the same school?