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Originally Posted by wags_in_the_peg
Wab slandered the crap out of the USA and definitely not welcoming to have any USA business in MB despite spending $500k on a US office. It's truly embarrassing his behavior.
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Wab is absolutely a populist that is loving the national attention, and most insiders will tell you that his focus on real, less shiny but more tangible policy for Manitobans is virtually non-existent. Trueviking's comments about Wab leaning into whatever polls best are spot on. Wab knows that right now, there are two things that will play well with most Manitobans: mentioning healthcare and displaying anti-American sentiment.
Wab's more focused on trying to "make provincial NDP history" by winning a rural seat than actually governing with focus and intent. His entire "economic development" focus is entirely on the Port of Churchill, which most adults in the room recognize is an absolute pipe dream that will go nowhere, so right now it's simply a local buzzword to make us all feel like there is potential and hope, when the reality is we will never have a substantial port in the north that rivals Vancouver, Montreal, or Halifax. The economics and infrastructure just isn't there and never will be without massive government subsidies (aka tax dollars). But to the average Joe, putting a port in the north makes sense, government just "needs to do something about it."
Meanwhile there are figurative burning dumpster fires everywhere across the province that need to be dealt with that require provincial intervention, especially in Winnipeg, but he's too busy posting catchy videos in Instagram/Tiktok, catering to centrists in rural MB, and talking about how we recruited like 10 doctors to Manitoba over the last 3 years (WOW!) as if that's some major fix, while ignoring everything else. And the best part? It's all paying off. He's consistently the most liked Premiere in Canada, grabs national headlines when normally Manitoban is considered irrelevant on the national stage, and people are even talking about him being a good candidate in federal politics (spoiler alert: Wab's history will destroy him at a national level despite him evading it at a provincial level).
That's not to say Wab isn't necessarily doing an okay job, he is. And he's leagues ahead of the alternative. But I'm not happy with the lack of progress on key files and his absent-mindedness on real issues that aren't sexy or the average voter doesn't care about, but I suppose that's just how politics goes these days.
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