The Election That Wasn't!

So far the Alberta election, is, well, boring! I dropped my son off at the YMCA for swimming, and saw Ed Stelmach's bus parked outside. I was tempted to go in and see what was going on, but hey, it was a day off and the last thing I wanted to do was think about politics.

Taft is counting on all the newcomer's to the province to vote Liberal.

I think that new Albertans, people who have moved here in the last 10 years, will be a factor in this election," Taft said. "My impression in talking to them is that they are prepared to vote for a new government."

If you believe Kevin, there's this subversive army of newcomers out there. Quietly waiting until election day, when they will rise up, pull on their Toronto Maple Leafs hockey jackets and march to the polls. And vote Liberal. Just because that's what they've been conditioned to do back wherever they brought the U-Haul from.

But there's more where that came from.

"People from other provinces coming here vote governments out every once in a while," Taft continued. "Just on principle."

Then he talked darkly about the "growing sense in Alberta."

"We want to appeal to everybody, but clearly we're appealing to people who feel after 37 years it's time for a change."

But if you've only been here for a few months, the 37 years part of the theory doesn't really register. You've hardly had time to visit the mountains, let alone get sick and tired of a Tory government you've never known.

Only one thing wrong with that logic. The majority of worker's who come here are from Newfoundland, and they fit in very nicely with Albertan's. They are hard working, freedom lover's, chances are they will vote Conservative before they vote Liberal. Anyone who has the gumption to pull up stakes, and move to Alberta, has to have some old fashioned pioneering spirit, you know, that willingness to make a better life for your family, a conservative principle.

Funny how the election was called just weeks after Wildrose Alliance was formed. Makes me think that the PC's are more worried about Wildrose than Liberals. Change might be in the works, but not towards Liberals, not this election.

Personally, I was more interested in this:

World's longest hockey game

A group of 40 exhausted men defeated frostbite, blisters and fatigue yesterday as they set a new Guinness record for the world’s longest hockey game.
After a gruelling 10-days of continuous hockey, both in frigid and balmy weather conditions, Brent Saik and 39 other players inked a new record of 241.5 hours of ice time.