It is what it is…

By Marc Chayer

Wildrose and Conservatives reach a deal to unite!

Tick tock, tick tock!

Rachel, the clock has started the countdown to the day when we can finally put you and this ridiculous excuse for a government out of its misery and finally get on with business again.

Last week the respective leaders of each of Alberta’s conservative parties reach a deal to begin the process to unite the right. For the first time in a long time, citizens were able to look up and see a thin ray of hope with the news.

In a province that has been absolutely blasted by the NDP and its whacked way of thinking, we are already lining up at polling stations to throw the bums out.

My only fear is that I sincerely hope the united right politicians remember what got them in trouble in the first place. The arrogance of the last group has been forgotten but it lies just below the surface. Confidence in government in Western Canada is not overflowing by any stretch of the imagination.

With the previous Conservative fiasco in our minds layered with the few Democrats ability to spend us back to the Stone Age, anyone seeking or holding public office would be well warned to remain humble with an eye on getting employment and the economy back where it really needs to be.

By any measure I am one of those who wants to see the NDP forever eradicated from the fabric of Alberta; however, this is not a permit for anyone to step in and figure that they have a newly-created credit card when it comes to trust or hope on the part on the electorate.

A unique opportunity presents itself to those in the “new” party. Just don’t screw this up! We have a federal Liberal party that seems to think that Canada’s western boundary is between Manitoba and Ontario. Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall has dug in against the Liberals on the federal Carbon Tax plan and right now he could use a little help from the rest of the west. (BC not included; it is on a whole different planet!)

We want and deserve a government that understands and feels the pain of the province. Security and stability is what we are going to be looking for, and the need to save our homes and businesses will supplant anything else that they may deem important.

As for the NDP, all I can say is no matter what, you will soon get to experience what so many of your fellow Albertans have had to deal with, a revised EI program! But take heart, I hear there are those in BC who will hire you to fight the pipelines you have professed to want built.

Tick tock, tick tock!

It is what it is…