I find it amazing that so many people can be SO Conservative that they would cut off their noses to spite their faces! What Klein and his cronies did was unconscionable! He sold you down the river, people! He made it so that these PRIVATE power companies cannot lose money! When the going is great, they make money. When the going is tough, they still make money because Klein set it up so that YOU pay to keep them profitable! And yet you'd stand up for this because it was done by your vaunted Klein! Are you crazy?
The reality is that our utilities never should have been deregulated, but the horses are out of the barn now and we'll never get them back in. The least we can do is try to protect ourselves from being run over in the stampede!
jack haman - 8 years ago
Corrections....I meant to say Canada WAS NOT built by Socialism. And I also meant to say that as soon as the populace awakened, they turfed Socialists as soon as they could. Everybody CANNOT work for the government because we need free enterprisers to tax because THEY PRODUCE, not just go through the motions and collect the monthly stipend...Pass Go, collect $200.
jack haman - 8 years ago
What's really behind this conundrum is that the NDP cannot tolerate private enterprise....their hidden agenda is to have the state run everything they can get their hands on...see Karl Marx. Tommy Douglas gave us state run medical care....who did he worship? And who is the father of the NDP via the CCF? What ya see is what ya get and Canada was built to be as great as it is by Socialism....We are free enterprise thinkers and that's what makes us respected world wide. If Socialist government is so successful, why has every province turfed those types of governing bodies as soon as they awakened were able to get the train back on the tracks.
Jon Allan - 8 years ago
If the NDP is right on this one, it'll prove that a pretty blatant corporate conspiracy was supported by corrupt Conservatives. But if they're wrong...... and they don't have evidence.... then some serious heads will need to roll.
Those of you AGAINST this idea either (a) do NOT understand or want to understand what Klein's deregulation did; OR (b) participated in the CORRUPTION that it was.
Klein gave a company owned at the time by SNC-Lavalin (Montreal) and Macquarie Bank (Australia) LEGISLATION guaranteeing them a 9-3/4% profit - NOT MATTER WHAT. No risk. Now that benefit goes to Berkshire-Hathaway, Warren Buffet`s company.
That was not "private enterprise" it was a REWARD of public money for corporate donations and support of the Alberta PC Party.
Sheila - 8 years ago
It seems based on these comments and letters to newspapers that many who oppose this move by the NDP, don't actually understand it.
Just like the responder who refers to Bill 6 clearly doesn't understand that, either. Bill 6 is very similar to legislation that had been in place in Saskatchewan for years, and which has created benefit rather than hardship.
Please people, read the actual words, not what someone else has heard.
Bryan Avison - 8 years ago
Why not invest in clean coal technology like Saskatchewan? Our abundant coal supply should be thought of as a gift to Albertans. Instead the Socialists want to shame Albertans into believing coal is dangerous.
Erin Davis - 8 years ago
It makes me physically ill to think our "government" really believes the general public is to stupid to understand what's really going on.
Derek Traquair - 8 years ago
I find it ironic that Ms. Hoffman would accuse the former government of "not consulting the public".... Because Bill 6 and the Carbon tax has had obvious consultation from the people....
Sean Wesley - 8 years ago
Uh... What..? Steve, PA deregulation made this happen in the 1990s. The pcs changed the law, the NDP are challenging the wording. For the benefit of consumers. The reality is that utilities should have stayed public.
Steve Palmer - 8 years ago
Governments need to assess impacts BEFORE making changes to legislation. It is clear that the NDP's preference is to preach ideologically-based grand solutions rather than attempt the foregoing. This legal action is nothing more than the NDP Government trying to blame anyone but themselves for their own poor judgement and lack of understanding.
I find it amazing that so many people can be SO Conservative that they would cut off their noses to spite their faces! What Klein and his cronies did was unconscionable! He sold you down the river, people! He made it so that these PRIVATE power companies cannot lose money! When the going is great, they make money. When the going is tough, they still make money because Klein set it up so that YOU pay to keep them profitable! And yet you'd stand up for this because it was done by your vaunted Klein! Are you crazy?
The reality is that our utilities never should have been deregulated, but the horses are out of the barn now and we'll never get them back in. The least we can do is try to protect ourselves from being run over in the stampede!
Corrections....I meant to say Canada WAS NOT built by Socialism. And I also meant to say that as soon as the populace awakened, they turfed Socialists as soon as they could. Everybody CANNOT work for the government because we need free enterprisers to tax because THEY PRODUCE, not just go through the motions and collect the monthly stipend...Pass Go, collect $200.
What's really behind this conundrum is that the NDP cannot tolerate private enterprise....their hidden agenda is to have the state run everything they can get their hands on...see Karl Marx. Tommy Douglas gave us state run medical care....who did he worship? And who is the father of the NDP via the CCF? What ya see is what ya get and Canada was built to be as great as it is by Socialism....We are free enterprise thinkers and that's what makes us respected world wide. If Socialist government is so successful, why has every province turfed those types of governing bodies as soon as they awakened were able to get the train back on the tracks.
If the NDP is right on this one, it'll prove that a pretty blatant corporate conspiracy was supported by corrupt Conservatives. But if they're wrong...... and they don't have evidence.... then some serious heads will need to roll.
Those of you AGAINST this idea either (a) do NOT understand or want to understand what Klein's deregulation did; OR (b) participated in the CORRUPTION that it was.
Klein gave a company owned at the time by SNC-Lavalin (Montreal) and Macquarie Bank (Australia) LEGISLATION guaranteeing them a 9-3/4% profit - NOT MATTER WHAT. No risk. Now that benefit goes to Berkshire-Hathaway, Warren Buffet`s company.
That was not "private enterprise" it was a REWARD of public money for corporate donations and support of the Alberta PC Party.
It seems based on these comments and letters to newspapers that many who oppose this move by the NDP, don't actually understand it.
Just like the responder who refers to Bill 6 clearly doesn't understand that, either. Bill 6 is very similar to legislation that had been in place in Saskatchewan for years, and which has created benefit rather than hardship.
Please people, read the actual words, not what someone else has heard.
Why not invest in clean coal technology like Saskatchewan? Our abundant coal supply should be thought of as a gift to Albertans. Instead the Socialists want to shame Albertans into believing coal is dangerous.
It makes me physically ill to think our "government" really believes the general public is to stupid to understand what's really going on.
I find it ironic that Ms. Hoffman would accuse the former government of "not consulting the public".... Because Bill 6 and the Carbon tax has had obvious consultation from the people....
Uh... What..? Steve, PA deregulation made this happen in the 1990s. The pcs changed the law, the NDP are challenging the wording. For the benefit of consumers. The reality is that utilities should have stayed public.
Governments need to assess impacts BEFORE making changes to legislation. It is clear that the NDP's preference is to preach ideologically-based grand solutions rather than attempt the foregoing. This legal action is nothing more than the NDP Government trying to blame anyone but themselves for their own poor judgement and lack of understanding.