Alberta is having a provincial election April 23. On the one hand, is the tired Progressive Conservative Government newly handed over to an extreme leftist Alison Redford.

On the other, is a populist/'libertarian party The Wildrose Party headed by Michelle Smith. Sadly, as this observer relates, even Wildrose is deeply infected with political correctness.

Redford is a protegee of far left former Progressive Conservative Party leader Joe Clark. She worked in South Africa as a loyal groupie of terrorist Nelson Mandela. She won the Tory leadership through the support of the leftist Alberta Teachers' Federation. Party rules allow late sign-ups, even during the runoff and Redford won with the support of many teachers who were by no means "conservative."

Columnist Lorne Gunter penned a damning indictment: "The Premier doesn't like Albertans much. She thinks we drink too much and are a menace on Alberta's streets and roads. Indeed, in her holier-than-thou mindset, she is sure that any drinking before driving is too much, even just a glass of wine during a restaurant dinner.

Ms. Redford is also convinced that Alberta parents are a hindrance to the teaching of communal values in the classroom. Her Education Minister is pushing amendments to the provincial Education Act that would remove parents as the "primary educators" of their children (with schools as complements to the home), and replace home values with the provisions of the Alberta Human Rights Act.

This, the Minister, Thomas Lukaszuk, insists, is not the intent of the amendments. But whether or not it is the intent, it will be the effect. Alberta is one of the few remaining provinces in which parents are still recognized in law as the chief teachers of their children. Unseating them from that perch and replacing them with the commissioners and investigators of a human rights tribunal cannot help but have a profound impact over time on the nature of schooling, whether Mr. Lukaszuk is perceptive enough to see that or not.

This change, too, is Ms. Redford's doing.

As a former United Nations bureaucrat and a long-time advocate of the politically correct version of human rights -- in which the ancient freedoms of free speech, free assembly and private property are trumped by modern notions of fairness, tolerance and self-esteem -- Alberta's new Premier has wanted since she was attorney-general under Mr. Stelmach to give parents no options about the ideals their children must absorb at school. Within days of winning the Tory leadership contest, Ms. Redford said she would end parents' ability to exempt their sons and daughters from sex-ed and life-skills courses that included lessons that undermine many family beliefs." (National Post. March 14, 2012)

A loyal supporter writes of her attendance at a Wildrose rally in a very multiculti area of Calgary Northeast.

"This will be no surprise to you but I had high hopes for the Wildrose Party and was sadly disappointed when I discovered they are TOTALLY MULTICULT. They hosted a breakfast at the nearby Southview Community Hall between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. this morning.  I arrived at 7:45 a.m. to the scratching voice of Jesse Minhas and his non-stop blather in loud broken English. It was such a relief when he finally shut up and introduced Danielle Smith a full 30 minutes later.  He hopes to be MLA for Calgary East (my riding). If he gets in I will have an East Indian as my mayor, and East Indian as my MLA and an East Indian as my MP. Did I move to India?
 
She did want the Human Rights Commission strategies altered so the accused would go through the court system but she didn't say anything about getting rid of HRC and made it obvious she was in favour of getting the bad, bad racists like the ones that might parade in Edmonton.  I don't remember the couched manner in which she put this into words. She went on about freedom of speech but obviously whites who object to being overrun by the third world are not entitled to speak; only clergymen who are victimized.  She said seniors who find it difficult to pay their property taxes on their homes should be allowed to forgo that until they sell their home.  Can you imagine how that would destroy the inheritance they wish to leave for their children?
 
A full 90% of the audience were white and mainly over 65... but at the back of the room the other 10% who run the party for my area were all East Indians and acted as the meeters-and-greeters when the sheeple entered. It made my skin crawl and I left before the question period finished and before I had to listen to the Calgary West hopeful, Jeevan Mangat.
 
Last night I listened to the rerun of the day's events in the Legislature.  The entire House were busy standing up voicing their cchagrin at racism, each one of them trying to outdo the other.  The Wildrose member (Airdrie-Chestermere) who is a young white male even quoted Martin Luther King for 10 minutes hoping to bring a tear to the eye. How dumb can they get -- by now it should be common knowledge he was a Communist and a sex pervert.  Unrelated I wondered how Airdre and Chestermere could be combined for representation because they are miles apart with the City of Calgary in between.
 
Now that I feel better after putting my angst to paper I will think about shovelling snow.  It's all supposed to melt later but that remains to be seen. What a pain in the neck - we didn't have a dram of snow remaining and Spring was here."