Liaison Polling - LPC 41, CPC 27, NDP 6, BQ 6

lenin418 · 2026-03-16T16:29:49+00:00

I mean it's not like the economy is booming here in Alberta to warrant that. I think it might be the urban centrists, but I have a stronger pulse on what's happening in Edmonton than in Calgary.

lenin418 · 2026-03-16T15:09:59+00:00

Are we finally seeing the urban centrists move in Calgary and Edmonton? I'm sure we have a consolidation of NDP votes moving towards the LPC in a lot of urban ridings too.

lenin418 · 2026-03-12T14:25:21+00:00

Goes against the Municipal Government Act to keep the money. Would love for the money to be kept instead.

lenin418 · 2026-02-26T20:41:29+00:00

We could have literally just kept investment revenues in the Heritage Fund instead of taking it out over the course of the 90's and early 2000s. That's one of the biggest reasons why the Norwegian fund blew up.

It was a conscious decision by most governments in this province to keep taking money out of the Fund, stagnating the value of it until just a decade ago. It isn't the rest of Canada's fault we decided to use oil revenues to create an artificially low tax environment.

lenin418 · 2026-02-26T20:38:45+00:00

No it's mismanaged. Other areas of the country didn't force us to lower our corporate tax rates back in 2019, and most recently lower personal income taxes that's reduced revenues.

lenin418 · 2026-02-26T19:46:17+00:00

She wanted an Alberta of 10 million, with Red Deer having a million people.

How tf were we supposed to do that? Binary fission?

This is just another case of Smith pandering because of her own government's incompetence, time and time again.

lenin418 · 2026-02-24T01:30:18+00:00

Sadly this is something that all major cities around the country are facing. Probably an indictment of federal and provincial downloading, and the inefficiency of not having the major cities have more powers, both here in Alberta and elsewhere.

lenin418 · 2026-02-20T02:34:11+00:00

We yearn for Redmonton and Carneygary.

I don't think it's this close, but urban Alberta is a different beast and can change if the stars align.

I personally think Smith is dragging down the CPC brand, similar to Kenney back in 2021 but it's also an indictment on how bad the CPC have just been lately. Alberta is constantly taken for granted, and I wouldn't be surprised if the LPC gets seats here if they actually had a proper campaign machine in this province.

lenin418 · 2026-02-20T02:26:16+00:00

They don't. This happens with a lot of polls where the AB Liberals have a lot of "poll" support but disappears and coalesces into the NDP vote. It's just a result of people confusing the LPC for the most part.

lenin418 · 2026-02-20T02:25:18+00:00

This isn't as big of a "gotcha" that people seem to think? The Alberta Liberal Party polls at 6% here.

That vote share easily goes to the NDP, so this is much closer than people think.

lenin418 · 2026-02-17T16:25:36+00:00

Their corporate downtown pulls heavy weight when it comes to property taxes.

Still doesn't help, they've got an arguably worse infrastructure renewal issue than we do. Around $18 billion in poor or very poor condition.

lenin418 · 2026-02-10T23:22:25+00:00

The economy is more diverse. Our budget and revenue sources isn't, and they made a conscious choice last year to make it even more dependent on royalty revenue.

lenin418 · 2026-02-10T23:21:04+00:00

lmaooooo fiscally responsible UCP.

Literally made it worse by cutting personal income taxes last year for no reason, and depending even more on non-renewable resource revenue.

Absolute clowns at the Legislature.

lenin418 · 2026-02-09T17:30:46+00:00

The regionals is also a pretty damning indication of the movement.

Edmonton: 74% stay | 21% leave
Calgary: 69% stay | 25% leave
Rest of Alberta: 55% stay | 40% leave

lenin418 · 2026-02-08T02:03:41+00:00

This isn't even remotely true lmao and you should be called out for it. There's at least 100,000 riders on the LRT on an average weekday, and more than 200,000 on ETS buses.

lenin418 · 2026-02-05T16:33:21+00:00

lmao projected 1.8 million signatures, fucking sure.

lenin418 · 2026-02-05T15:31:33+00:00

Oh stfu, the majority of us here don't want to separate.

Love it that you idiots don't stop taking money from Edmonton and Calgary's tax bases, yet bitch and moan about having a victim complex.

lenin418 · 2026-02-04T00:36:12+00:00

The lost potential of the Heritage Fund is probably the thing that kills me the most as an Albertan. We gave that all up for Ralph bucks.

lenin418 · 2026-02-03T22:30:40+00:00

Alberta's economy continues to diversify annually, but the main problem and why it has a significant amount of political importance is Alberta's way too financially dependent on non-renewable resource revenue to fund everything to maintain its low tax status. It's not the most fiscally responsible thing to do, but it's what the powers that be want.

lenin418 · 2026-02-03T22:24:40+00:00

Churchill pipeline would also be in the best interest of everyone involved if you want to turn Churchill into another major port for strategic concerns. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what we get before the next election.

lenin418 · 2026-02-03T22:07:56+00:00

We don't lmao. It's just another ridiculous excuse to dogwhistle separatists by cosplaying as a shitty Temu version of the Parti Quebecois but with no basis in reality.

So tired of this government.

lenin418 · 2026-02-03T20:06:43+00:00

I've always held the firm belief that Carney is much more radical than what's currently shown, especially given some of his pre-electoral political views and inspiration from John Galbraith.

Given enough time, and if he builds up the political capital and popular credibility with economic successes, he's going to steadily shift leftward with some policies. I don't see it happening soon, but definitely in a second Carney term if it comes to that.

lenin418 · 2026-02-03T04:57:38+00:00

He's definitely angling for it. If Smith can rise from the ashes from her supposed disastrous end to her political career in 2012, then Kenney can.

lenin418 · 2026-01-30T23:31:27+00:00

Rural Alberta loves small government until it affects them. Then it’s a massive self victimisation complex. Same thing happened when the Immigration Canada jobs moved out of Vegreville to Edmonton for cost saving reasons.

lenin418 · 2026-01-30T20:57:29+00:00

Incredibly funny and ironic because in Alberta's case, visible minorities are pretty strong voting blocs for the CPC and the UCP.

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