You know what really drives me crazy, when the media or in this case our government use the media to play games with us. On the front page of the Calgary Herald today our finance minister says things like, ”In fact, the manager of the provincial purse strings believes Alberta will be lucky if it can rebound from the economic slowdown within two years and suggested Wild Rose Country is entering a period of “figuring out what you can do without.”
“I’ve never seen anything like it,” Evans said in an interview Friday.
“It was a very difficult week.”“You’d be a fool not to consider that a wake-up call,”And this from our genius Liberal leader;“My hunch is that Alberta has seen its last boom,” Liberal Leader Kevin Taft predicted Friday. “The last week could go down as a historic week, the week the economy hit the ditch.”The last paragraph tell it all and thank god to the reporter for putting it in,
McCormick agrees the province is faring better than other parts of the country where deficits are now being calculated. However, the government is trying to manage expectations by talking about tough times ahead.
“It’s directed at universities, hospitals, school boards and government employees who are thinking about salary negotiations coming up — that’s who they are talking to,” he said. “They are trying to get rid of boom-talk and boom-mentality now.”So in times like this I think our government should be doing like the national Tories, “yes times are tough BUT this is what we are doing about it”Our government people should not be using the paper to be political to send a message to interest groups and government employees to simply posture. We need our governments to work on the issue and maintain a positive outlook.Iris, stop being a politician for a minute and lead our province out of this slowdown please
