Still from many, their response will be silly. Which is a sad reflection on the intelligence of Albertans who won't grasp that they are now going to pay through the nose for energy rebates that are made necessary by the prodigal policies of the government they love so much. It isn't enough that there has been an outcry that the police and their quarantine zone around the conferences that makes even peaceful protest impossible. Government has abdicated. We leave economic management to unelected monetarists like Greenspan in the U.S. and the knee-jerk Dodge in Canada.
Government has control of the fiscal instruments.
They won't use them. They bring tax cuts to the wealthy and subsidies to industry. We of The Left must persuade people that only a government that takes charge of our affairs can withstand the onslaught of world business. It is bizarre perhaps, that even though they participate in the W.T.O. that European Community countries still have socially conscious governments who recognize that their people come first. Neither represents a shining example of how successful unbridled Free Enterprise can be.