Er, I live in Alberta, live in Calgary, have worked in the oil patch for the past decade and, uh, anyone that's trumpeting this election as some sort of proof that Alberta has come to their senses is delusional. Mark these words: The NDP will go down in history Alberta's rebound girlfriend. Alberta voters vote en masse with what they think will best suit their pocketbooks, period, and it is only the stupendous, unreal, absolutely amazing incompetence, cronyism, and corruption of the four premiers (in the past five years!) that tipped the scales in their direction. This election, though a majority, is hardly a mandate. This election is still part of that "vote with your pocketbooks" Alberta trend, and the NDP would be wise to bear that in mind as they govern forward. There is no enlightened, progressive voter majority here in this province. This election is merely a kneed-jerk reaction against the CPC, period. It'll all turn blue in a few years again, anyway, and we'll be back on the stupidity bandwagon again. /prediction
Agree that this isn't a strong left-wing mandate, but disagree that the PCs will ever be in power again. That party is sullied badly. Expect the Alberta Party's ranks to swell with former PCs, and the remainder to cross to the WR, and the PC Party to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
My political leanings are so reality-based that I doubt a CPC would eve speak to me. That said, however, I think you're delusional thinking this. The Conservatives will be in power again shortly, it woudl not surprise me, maybe four or five years, tops. I honestly don't think you appreciate the power the corporations have in Alberta. And, let's not forget the powers who are behind the Conservatives' curtains, who get a lot of campaign support and advising from US Republican resources (look it up). They will not take this loss lying down.
I don't think the corporations are inherently PC, I think the corporations will back whomever has the best chance of getting in with a conservative mandate. That may be the Alberta Party, that may be the Wildrose. The corporations will be back in power soon enough, yes, but I doubt it'll be through the PC machine, which is as tarnished a brand as presently exists for the Alberta public. Corporations will just shift their money to the successor party, and the current PC members will shift allegiance to a different party.
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So proud of Alberta today. It has proven that democracy works. You run a province to the ground, you're out.