Parents who voted in Conservatives upset that they have to pay school fees after Conservatives cut school funding program that the New Democrats put in place
Parents who voted in Conservatives upset that they have to pay school fees after Conservatives cut school funding program that the New Democrats put in place
Parents of some children at Red Deer Public Schools (RDPS) are being asked to pay an extra fee this school year.
FYI for non-Canadians - Alberta is often referred to as the Texas of Canada.
Also, 'Democrats' in this case is referring to the Alberta branch of the New Democratic Party.
Which by national standards is the most conservative NDP in the country.
Say no more.
And Canada's Utah. Former Mormon here and I met many Albertans in the church.
Lmao my town is in an uproar because there is no bussing for the high school, but my town literally voted to disincorporate (and won!) rather than pay a double-digit yearly increase on their taxes... to pay for bussing.
More and more it seems like people just don't want to help pay for services that are extremely helpful. Yet when those services are removed, they get all uppity about it. It's just like brexit. Stupidity on a massive scale.
It's the result of deliberate dumbing down of the voters. Can't have the plebs actually voting for their interests.
They don't want to pay for programs they don't benefit from and even those they only want to hamper enough that they get theirs but no one else does.
As someone who lives in red deer, yup, sounds about right.
My fellow Red Deerians are political illiterates. My one friend works in admin for schools here. Or at least, she used to, but she lost her job after the party she furiously badgered everyone to vote for got in and cut the funding at her school, targeting administrators. Which they ran on.
It was the most Red Deer thing I ever saw.
This sounds like almost all red counties across America. Politically illiterate and full of bandwagon republicans who don’t understand they’re voting to hurt themselves and their livelihoods.
Alberta to a "T".
But I was voting for policies that would hurt other people, not me!!!
That will never not be funny
OP needs to change the title. We don't have a "Democratic Party" in Canada, or even in Alberta.
Apologies my ignorance, I am not from Canada. What do you guys have?
NDP and Liberal parties, which are politically very similar to each other. Closest analogue to them is the US Democrat party but the Democrats in the US are more neolib than either Canadian leftist party - although Canadian politics tends to trail US politics by a few years, so they'll get there lol.
"But I never thought the leopards would eat my face!!"
Fuck Round & Find Out, conservoclowns.
It doesn't matter if they find out since they never learn anything.
Well yeah, I mean, they had probably planned to get new AR-15s with that money. Now they have to waste it on their kids.
blah blah leapords blah blah faces.
Sounds very Albertan.
They also need to cut tax.
If you're paying school fees then you should make up for it by paying less in taxes.
When's the last time the UCP cut taxes?
Well i call it a win for childless
They didn't cut the taxes bruh, they just started pocketing it instead of spending it on children. Everyone loses here, except for Conservative politicians.
Oh nvm then
childless people famously benefit from the population having worse education...