Thursday, October 20, 2011

Closing the Legislature

The PC government announced today that there would be a 2 day fall sitting followed by a month long break. The fall sitting ends Dec1 therefore leaving only 6 more days to sit in the Legislature.
Many people have said that it is reasonable because the party just elected a new leader to premier. For me, it's not OK. This party has governed Alberta for 40 years, so they know it would be best to finish their leadership race and be ready to govern by the time the fall session resumes. I am afraid this is a time waster as the fall sitting will accomplish nothing, and when the spring session gets ready the writ will be dropped. This ensures the spring sitting would also be cancelled, not giving a clear direction the PC party will be taking prior to the next provincial election. This is smart on the PC side of things, but as Albertans it has left us with a government without accountability for close to a year. Those looking for change, well lets just say I don't see a bit of it.
I have heard the question of how was there time. Well Redford promised in her campaign to fix election dates, this could easily be done. She promised the 107 Million back into education, could we not spend the time to figure out where the money could come from? How about the health care inquiry? Could get that on the go, couldn't we? It appears that the promises she made were too complex to actually take on in the legislature this fall, and with the likely hood of an election before June (her words) the spring sitting will be cancelled. This makes her promises certain to be unrealized by the next election, forcing Albertans to go on their gut on whether to trust her or not.

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