Why Albertans should stop voting Conservative   
      
      
   Max Fawcett: If Albertans want the rest of Canada to take their issues more   
   seriously, they’ll have to do something even more radical than pushing for   
   separation . . . stop voting Conservative   
      
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   It’s been 70 years since Alberta’s federal seats were up for grabs, when   
   Social Credit and the Liberals ended up with 37.4 per cent and 33.8 per cent   
   of the vote, respectively.  Since then, there have only been three occasions   
   where Alberta sent more    
   than three non-Conservative MPs to Ottawa: four in 1968, four again in 1993,   
   and a whopping five in 2015.  Other than that, it’s been blue wave after   
   blue wave, with Conservatives routinely pulling more than 60 per cent of the   
   popular vote.   
      
   The odds of Albertans actually voting strategically in this fall’s election   
   and putting the province’s federal Conservatives on notice are about the   
   same as Maxime Bernier crossing the aisle to join the Liberals.  But it’s   
   something they might want    
   to start thinking seriously about.   
      
   After all, as Einstein famously observed, the definition of insanity is doing   
   the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. And if   
   recent history is any indication, voting Conservative isn’t going to get   
   them the results they    
   want.   
      
   https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/why-albertans-should-stop-voting-conservative   
      
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