UCP must return to social conservatism and moderate fiscal policies of Peter Lougheed
Re: “Fiscal conservatives haven’t had a voice in Alberta for 20 years,” Oct. 12
Although, Ralph Klein described himself as a fiscal conservative, he more often talked the talk than walked the walk. He kept taxes high by fighting for tax-funded abortion, and he brought in health care premiums for seniors.
Klein’s socially liberal views on alcohol resulted in several “bozo eruptions.” Late in the 1980s, he was photographed in a Calgary bar drinking with two members of the Grim Reapers Motorcycle Club to be patched over to the Hells Angels. Years later, this photo was used against him by the Hells Angels when he objected to them patching over two motorcycle clubs in Alberta in 1997. Klein considered making it legal to carry open liquor in the cabs of motor vehicles. In an embarrassing incident in 2001, a drunken Klein berated people in an Edmonton homeless shelter for being unemployed. Pressure from within the party eventually forced
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That city officials cannot enforce their own bylaws and provincial laws on the intimidating groups that are smoking by doorways and loitering on sidewalks downtown.
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A great big thank you to the person in the Tim Hortons drivethru who picked up my tab, $21.99, on Thanksgiving Monday. I was surprised and very grateful.
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Those people arrested for drug charges will be back on the street within 24 hours from some liberal judge or justice of peace. All the hard work police do is for nothing.
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About Canada’s gun control. We don’t need people thinking carrying guns in public and having automatic weapons are OK. Way to go, Canada.
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How about city council and our mayor try to get some big industry in this city. It seems all we get are low-paying restaurant jobs.
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At the food court on Sunday two young girls returned a $5 bill to another girl who had dropped it, and I commended them on what they’d done.
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That one of the mayoralty candidates said we should have free bus fare.
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With opposition pointing fingers at the federal government for stopping the pipeline. All you thought of was all oil going to the U.S. We need more than one customer.
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At people who attend a funeral service and then leave shortly after communion. That is disrespecting the deceased. If you can’t stay until the body has left the church, perhaps you shouldn’t bother attending.
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With the guys in Ottawa who are ruling our country. How much longer do they have to be in power before they admit the problems are theirs? Blame themselves, not the Conservatives.
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him to resign.
As big a bozo as Klein was, there is an even bigger one in office in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau. There is a picture of Trudeau on the Internet marching in a sex-parade and giving a topless woman a piggyback ride.
Brian Jean and Doug Schweitzer are running for the leadership of the United Conservative Party. Both naively believe they can bring the party back to power by following the fiscal policies of Ralph Klein and the social policies of Justin Trudeau.
Schweitzer’s plan to shrink the party by kicking out social conservatives (i.e. Christians) won’t expand its base of support. Neither will going full hog and marching in Pride parades.
The party must return to social conservatism and the moderate fiscal policies of Peter Lougheed.
Del Egan Medicine Hat
That we did not vote for any council person who voted to close our beloved old arena.
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Received a bogus Revenue Canada call saying I owed them money. It even came from Ontario. Fellow Hatters, don’t fall for it.
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I have no qualms about printing the salaries of mayor and councillors. If they were in private business, they’d be making way more money than that.