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Remember when getting involved in another country's electoral politics was a faux pas? Ralph Klein certainly doesn't. And I remember conservatives bitching about Michael Moore coming up here and getting involved in our politics...
posted by Ryan Ringer @ 6/29/2006 03:36:00 p.m.
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I am okay with Ralph Klein trying to promote business in Alberta in the US, but he shouldn't be endorsing anyone party. He is definitely pushing the envelope. Interestingly enough I cannot imagine he is a hard-core Republican. Despite the fact he likes to talk like a right winger, I should point out up until the mid 80s, he was a federal Liberal and switched only after Don Getty persuaded him to run provincially.
Did Klein really call Alberta Canada's only "red" state?
Although Alberta is undoubtedly the most Conservative (big-C) province in the country, it is hardly the most conservative.
Most polling data I have ever heard of report that social conservative views are mostly widely held in Atlantic Canada, not Alberta, and that Albertans have some of the lowest rates of attendance at places of religious worship in the country.
I know that Liberals like to compare Canadian Conservatives to US Republicans - this rhetoric is to be expected from a party of liars and thieves. But Ralph Klein should really know his own province better than to essentially compare it to Alabama or Tennessee.
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