So does Joe Clark.

I see no hope for the Liberals in the near future because they have yet to understand that their party was co-opted decades ago by “PET” and this very day they still can’t figure out what happened to them as Canadian voters (slow learners at the best of times) finally had an “ahaaa” moment.

Fortunately for Canada a man came along who saw the problem and worked long and hard (with much help). Today his creation (somewhat changed) runs this country.

Nothing will change for Liberal political fortunes until they too go through the same gut-wrenching process. Not that I care. Four decades of highly embarrassing political stupidity was quite enough, thank you. I look forward to many more years of competent conservative rule for myself and my children. After all, turn about is fair play and this whine looks really good on them. One of many we have been hearing over the past few years as their impotent party “apparichiks” cry in their beer.

Will it ever change?

Perhaps but not in my lifetime unless they learn their lesson.

So far “no cigar”.

Send two cops out into the boonies to exercise a gun warrant. On who? Well, we can’t tell you, because, well, because it might impact the privacy of well, someone. BUT THERE IS A GUN INVOLVED…. BY A MEMBER OF THE WHACKO PUBLIC, HEAD FOR THE HILLS, ‘CAUSE ONE GOT AWAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!

Alberta just signed a twenty year (count ‘em 20) contract with RCMP to provide police services outside of the major urban centers. Ed Stelmach’s present to the taxpayers before he retired to the pig farm. That’s a story in itself, because it puts paid to Wildrose Party’s promise to forming our own provincial force, one of their policy objectives. Contract. Break. $$$$$$$$$$$$. Politics.

Are we short staffed? Who knows, but I drive all over Alberta to go to work and I see one…..sometimes. A thin red line.

Average house price in Calgary is $365,000, no PST, lower corporate tax rates, the place is practically empty. Population 1.2 million…. the size of Mississauga. It costs me heat, light, water, taxes…..$490.00 a month for a 1320 sq ft bungalow. Beat that. Saskatchewan has just exceeded 1 million people. That province is booming, but still “empty”. Literally. I’m retiring to Maple Creek, just north of the Cyprus Hills. Small, quiet, off the beaten track, an hour or so to the “Hat”. Summers are fabulous there. Winters, well colder but not nearly as much snow to throw as Ontario.

We have schools here, paved highways, Timmies and miles and miles of………miles.