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“We’re kind of redneck down here, but not that redneck” – Alberta MP on Donald Trump

Post author By Dave Cournoyer
Post date March 18, 2016
2 Comments on “We’re kind of redneck down here, but not that redneck” – Alberta MP on Donald Trump

“Everyone’s as bewildered as, I think, the American media is about the rise of Donald Trump. We’re kind of redneck down here, but not that redneck.”

– Jim Hillyer, MP for Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner speaking to Embassy News about the rise of Donald Trump.

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Alberta Politics

Four decades of message consistency

Post author By Dave Cournoyer
Post date August 26, 2015
15 Comments on Four decades of message consistency

“Most oil men say that the new tax will simply drive new industry out of the province to the expanding fields in the North.” – Ottawa Citizen on May 8, 1972 reporting on Peter Lougheed’s oil tax increase.

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