At the very least, the mounting frustration of huge, broad-based bargaining units like the teachers' and health sciences union and even other stakeholders like communities upset over the condition of local highways might be demonstrating how volatile trust can be.
Admittedly, the well of trust Wall has dug is a still a deep one - especially when contrasted with the trust issues of his political rival, NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter. Whatever slide there has been of late in Wall's trustworthiness won't likely effect the outcome of the November vote.
That said, there are signs that certain groups don't quite trust Wall as much as they once did.
Take the teachers, who likely never had reasonable expectations of a 12-per-cent annual raise or even 16 per cent over three years. What teachers still seem to want more than money is validation of their worth. What they feel they've gotten from Wall and his government is accusations that their job action has been motivated by partisan politics and that they somehow don't work as hard as Alberta teachers because of a minor difference in the contractual hours they work.
Trust Wall's most volatile commodity
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