Whoever wrote the Alberta Speech from The Throne that was delivered yesterday needs to go back to high school, at least. It is a terrible speech. In particular, the introduction reads like it was written by a grade-3 student suffering from acute ADD.

I was not expecting poetry or Nobel-bound literature; speeches like these are often peppered with platitudes but it’s not too much to hope for full and complete sentences.  It does improve somewhat past the intro, but it still is far too stiff. If the future is now, as the writer says, the present has been abandoned.