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Brad Sallows said:It's a mandate - anything around 40% in Canada is so - but vote splitting is in clear evidence. I expect the NDP will be out if - and only if - the PC and Wildrose recombine.
Spending in rural areas seems disproportionately high because urban areas need food, lumber, concrete, petroleum products, electricity, steel, etc.; and these things are not to found in sufficient quantity in urban areas and the residents would not tolerate the industry necessary to turn the raw materials into finished goods regardless. The urban tax money spent in rural areas is chiefly for the benefit of the urban areas. No-one should delude themselves otherwise in pursuit of some infantile ideological talking point.
I agree but the analyses I have read suggest, to me, that the PCs and Wildrose have some deep and bitter differences and that reunification is going to require new, better leaders in both parties.
History suggests the Progressive Conservatives are dead in Alberta, but conservatism is still alive and well. My reading of the historical entrails suggests, to me, that the some, (six or eight) PC MLAs should ~ in the interests of the province ~ do a Danielle Smith and cross the floor earlier rather than later.