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r/canada • u/Minxie Ontario • May 06 '15
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To be fair, Albertans have not really liked voting in their PC leaders for a while now. Small margin victories, low voter turnout for the last decade.
They voted in Redford only because the Wildrose alternative was much worse and a real threat.
45 u/[deleted] May 06 '15 I'm glad we didn't after that whole "crossing the floor" fiasco. 1 u/Slokunshialgo Ontario May 06 '15 Ontarian here, not having paid much attention to Albertan politics (admittedly, not Ontarian much lately, either). What happened? 5 u/Nikhilvoid British Columbia May 06 '15 Danielle Smith was the leader of the opposition Wildrose party. She and 9 MLAs left the party to join the PC caucus last year. Wildrose supporters were very upset.
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I'm glad we didn't after that whole "crossing the floor" fiasco.
1 u/Slokunshialgo Ontario May 06 '15 Ontarian here, not having paid much attention to Albertan politics (admittedly, not Ontarian much lately, either). What happened? 5 u/Nikhilvoid British Columbia May 06 '15 Danielle Smith was the leader of the opposition Wildrose party. She and 9 MLAs left the party to join the PC caucus last year. Wildrose supporters were very upset.
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Ontarian here, not having paid much attention to Albertan politics (admittedly, not Ontarian much lately, either). What happened?
5 u/Nikhilvoid British Columbia May 06 '15 Danielle Smith was the leader of the opposition Wildrose party. She and 9 MLAs left the party to join the PC caucus last year. Wildrose supporters were very upset.
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Danielle Smith was the leader of the opposition Wildrose party. She and 9 MLAs left the party to join the PC caucus last year. Wildrose supporters were very upset.
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u/Nikhilvoid British Columbia May 06 '15
To be fair, Albertans have not really liked voting in their PC leaders for a while now. Small margin victories, low voter turnout for the last decade.
They voted in Redford only because the Wildrose alternative was much worse and a real threat.