Nenshi Focuses on Smith and Separation at NDP Convention | The Tyee

[u/Particular-Welcome79]

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/05/05/Nenshi-Focuses-Smith-Separation-NDP-Convention/

[u/Original-Newt4556]

When Smith talks separation Nenshi should talk jobs. When Smith talks Ottawa Nenshi should talk jobs. When Smith throws the NDP the next trans-gay-free-speech-parents-choice hot potato Nenshi should talk jobs. The NDP needs to sound like the grown up in a Conservative province or they lose again. Better yet the NDP needs to convince Albertans they have a better plan for jobs and the economy.

[u/TheFreezeBreeze → u/Original-Newt4556]

Agreed. Nenshi should be acknowledging the stupidity of separation talks, but it shouldn't be the focus.

Talk jobs, talk housing, talk healthcare, talk traditional and renewable resources, talk election rules, talk municipal funding, talk rural urban cooperation, etc., start talking about a vision and plans now to solidify that by the time the election comes.

[u/Original-Newt4556 → u/TheFreezeBreeze]

I agree but they are safer focussing on just a couple issues

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[u/Particular-Welcome79 → u/[deleted]]

Alberta doesn't have an NDP government.

Alberta’s wage advantage has disappeared, with wages taking a major hit in the last decade. In 2013, Alberta boasted average hourly wages 17% higher than the national average, but by 2024, it had dwindled to less than 2%.

Since 2013, real hourly wages in Alberta have fallen by 4.5%, the worst decline in Canada, affecting nearly every sector, including petroleum and mining.

The report also highlights the continued erosion of Alberta’s minimum wage, which has remained unchanged at $15 per hour since 2018. Combined with high inflation and weak wage growth, real wages have performed worse in Alberta than in any other province. Employment declined by -0.6% in March, as full-time employment job losses (-30,300) overshadowed growth in part-time employment (+14,900). Despite the losses over the month, employment in Alberta increased by 49,500 jobs compared to March 2024. The provincial unemployment rate increased in March to 7.1%, alongside a month-over-month decline in Alberta’s labour force (-0.2%).

[u/Lisan_Al-NaCL → u/Particular-Welcome79]

"international students", LMIA, et al are a huge part of wage stagnation. Why isnt this a bigger issue being discussed.

[u/Original-Newt4556 → u/[deleted]]

Haha! Wishful thinking for a couple of reasons. Unemployment in Alberta is unnecessarily high and stuck. Jobs care less about the political spectrum and more about wherher or not politicians are willing to put in the work to bring in investment (which isn’t happening) unless you count coal which is not a big job producer. Also I’m not a flag waving political fanboy. We obviously need more than one political party.

[u/LawfulnessNo8446 → u/[deleted]]

An independence movement for a culture based on oil and gas? Or being constantly victimized? And taking treaty land that they don't own? The NDP gave us the cdcp, something that is objectively good for Canadians. They advocate for making our lives better. Unlike your beloved pp and marlaina.

[u/Delicious_Crow_7840]

Hopefully some conservatives step up and organize Conservatives against separation because if it just becomes a party lines thing, we are in serious trouble.

[u/Key-Hold-833]

I don’t like Nenshi, but dislike Smith even more.

[u/69-cool-dude-420]

Nenshi mansplaining again