This is literally false, the NDP never held Alberta before 2015, the party that controlled Alberta before Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives was the Social Credit Party, which came to power in the Depression era with the promise of Social Credit (an idea similar to that of UBI), which was then struck down by the courts as being unconstitutional as the program would have overrode federal jurisdiction.
The SoCreds were viscerally socially conservative, especially under Ernest Manning (father of Preston Manning), and Lougheed was incredibly progressive in comparison to the premiers before him; a literal Progressive Conservative where he was socially progressive, and fiscally conservative.
Editing this to add in the fact that Lougheed realised that oil wouldn’t be able to hold the province up forever, and thus started the Heritage Fund to save for further developing and diversifying the economy. This fund literally partly inspired Norway’s Government Pension Fund, showcasing that Lougheed was on the right path with what he’d done. You are defacing the best premier this province has ever had, and placing the faults of the Klein government and governments that followed onto Lougheed unjustly.
This is literally false, the NDP never held Alberta before 2015, the party that controlled Alberta before Lougheed’s Progressive Conservatives was the Social Credit Party, which came to power in the Depression era with the promise of Social Credit (an idea similar to that of UBI), which was then struck down by the courts as being unconstitutional as the program would have overrode federal jurisdiction.
The SoCreds were viscerally socially conservative, especially under Ernest Manning (father of Preston Manning), and Lougheed was incredibly progressive in comparison to the premiers before him; a literal Progressive Conservative where he was socially progressive, and fiscally conservative.
Editing this to add in the fact that Lougheed realised that oil wouldn’t be able to hold the province up forever, and thus started the Heritage Fund to save for further developing and diversifying the economy. This fund literally partly inspired Norway’s Government Pension Fund, showcasing that Lougheed was on the right path with what he’d done. You are defacing the best premier this province has ever had, and placing the faults of the Klein government and governments that followed onto Lougheed unjustly.