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Greg Hooper's avatar

In Fellini's Amarcord, when the crazy uncle gets up in a tree and won't come down, somebody calls Sister ______, who's a dwarf nun, to come and get him out of the tree. And she does, basically by standing at the bottom and yelling, "You come down right now!"

Not a normal function of government, but maybe it's an idea whose time has come?

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paul childs's avatar

This is all more Grade A Steve Bannon 'Flood the field with 'poop' tactics. Make all kinds of noise about war with the federal government, and things that won't happen because of regulations that haven't been drafted yet and people forget what you did last week. And two weeks ago may as well be last year.

You'll notice no one now is asking awkward questions about; why the organization of health care in the province is being set back almost 30 years with no independent evidence recommending that, or exactly what is happening with the public forums about the APP that Albertans were promised and now seem to be canceled, or exactly how we're going to have a zero emission power grid by 2050.

Life is so much easier when you can govern by distraction, rather than having actual accomplishments.

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