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I never thought I'd see the day when young adults began voting Conservative and older folk Liberal. We have major problems in this country and they are largely of our own making. And besides housing and doctor shortages, and unemployment... there's the climate, economy, and energy thing which are far more important and have to be addressed in a sensible manner. Carney's got his work cut out for him if he wants to turn this ship around.

Jasper, being a 'National Park' (and not a Provincial Park) is the responsibility of Parks Canada. As such, Parks Canada is responsible for land use planning, development, and environmental matters. Alberta's responsibilities are generally in education, healthcare, and the licensing of drivers. I noticed that one of your interests was 'fighting economic growth', yet you claim we can grow in all kinds of other directions. An explanation perhaps?

Well it does. It destroys everything it touches. Party first. Ideology second. When someone comes along and says country first and means it.... well that's kind of special. And as voters we should demand it.

Politics sucks.

The letter itself makes perfect sense. The best way to get the country back on track is to .... support free enterprise eliminate barriers restore fiscal discipline reform the tax system develop natural resources It also doesn't take a genius to implement these things, only the will and desire to do so. As they say.... 'government is not the answer, but the facilitator'. With the Liberals track record, they logically would support the Conservatives. When governments stop being facilitators and try to micromanage things they usually screw up. Living standards are dependent upon how well an economy functions, and an economy is dependent upon energy and lots of it. If Carny wants to cut fossil fuels... then that baseload energy has to be replaced by something equivalent. And by the time 2050 rolls around were going to require massive amounts of it according to government sources. It's going to be interesting to see how Carney deals with these conflicting realities.

That just about sums up everything in a nutshell. Instead of focusing on Trudeau, Conservatives should have spent their energy focusing on the Liberal party. Otherwise, when Trudeau's replaced.... problem disappears.

Right about now I'm hoping the Liberals can either pick up the seats they need to form a majority government, or come to some working arrangement with the Conservatives to put this country back on track. If not, we're going to go through another 4 years of hell. Of course Liberals working with Conservatives could only happen in a perfect world.

No idea what you're referring to. Or maybe I'm just dyslexic or something.

Ideologues such as Carney only commit themselves to their beliefs and ideologies and rarely to their country. I'm not suggesting he's a bad guy or anything, and I surely believe there's a lot of voters who go along with his beliefs. He wrote a book about them. But I'd rather go with the guy who's actually preaching change and common sense.

The 500,000 per year building starts also includes building starts by the private sector, and only hope to achieve this 500,000 target in 10 years. Best to start out small and see how it works. If successful it can always be expanded. The idea of building these pre-fab and modular homes on publicly owned land is interesting. They also mention something about 'leasing' which could also potentially knock prices down for first time home buyers even further.

I'd be happy with being self sufficient and not being dependent upon oil from the Saudi's and Venezuela. Or for that matter, Alberta oil from pipelines going to refineries in Ontario which have to pass through a number of northern U.S. states. Then as we add more wind, solar, nuclear, hydro electric power, and the infrastructure to get the power where we want... we could gradually turn off the taps and weed ourselves off of fossil fuels. But I have no idea of how long that will take. And no politician can tell you that either. Carney's idea of weeding us off fossil fuels by 2030, well good luck with that. No more fossil fuels to heat our homes or power transportation? Good luck with that too. We've got to be careful here. If covid taught us one thing, is that supply chains can't be depended on, and that wars wherever they may take place cause shortages. Best to be self sufficient especially in regards to food, medicine, vaccines, and energy. Whether any of this makes an ounce of business sense I don't really care either. Just get it done.

It's not as if the oil companies are spending more to pump more oil out of the ground, or that Liberals have anything to do with it either. It's simply because oil companies have found more efficient and profitable ways to go about doing it.

So is mine, but that's only part of it. We also need a functioning economy. And if we hope to get anywhere close to net-zero by 2050 we're going to need a pile of clean energy from somewhere and fast, or things start to shut down. The energy and trade east/west corridor alone isn't the answer but it's a start to us getting back on the right track.

If you had two parties that shared the same views on things you happened to agree with on turning the country around.... then why not vote for the real deal?

Well you're partially right, at least the part about dissecting the data further. 43% of Canadians aged 18-34 would vote to join the U.S. if all assets were converted to USD. So would 33% of those aged 35-54, and 17% aged 55+. You don't find anything about these figures to be just a little concerning?? It tells me that the country IS broken. And it's those who are young who are paying the brunt of the price for it.