Stelmach backs off on allegations of job losses, well sort of... UPDATE.

Ed Stelmach has finally revealed where he got his statistic about the 300 000 plus jobs that would be lost if the Alberta Liberal's GHG plan was implemented. This comes via Scott Dippel at the CBC's Reporter's Notebook.

Speaking of Stelmach, it's day 25 of 28 day campaign. He still can't source his claim that a Liberal government's environment plan will kill 345,000 jobs in Alberta... or as we found out at a campaign stop this week, he meant to say Canada.

When asked to name which organization produced this statistic, he tells reporters: "I forget the name of the board." The PC campaign team can't name a website, document or author.

Hmmmm....maybe because you're blatantly lying. You made it up, there's not stats and no report. Obviously this behaviour makes my blood boil. Why must the Alberta's government persist (to the point of fabricating evidence) with such dated, backwards logic that environment=recession, when every one else in the developed world is moving on. It's just embarrassing.

Anyhow, Dippel's post cites more examples of why the Conservatives have had a bad campaign (which, you will discover is the understatement of the year for describing these gems) so I encourage you to go check it out. For now, here's one more particularly pathetic (and oh so depressing) example:

Two members of a Conservative candidate's team in rural Alberta storm into a local newspaper office. The candidate wants the editor's head on a plate. His crime: the paper dared to print a picture of Liberal Leader Kevin Taft on its front page.

The editor agrees to tell this story to CBC News but stops at the last minute. That's because the paper's publisher tells the editor that "if he values his job," he won't speak about the incident.

Sense of entitlement, much?

Comments

[Aaron]

Phantom jobs!

Alberta would lose out on the 300,000 jobs it requires to fulfill the pace of growth needed for tar sands development. In other words, these are jobs that haven't even been created in Alberta yet.