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Ask BC, Ontario and Saskatchewan how good the NDP was for them.
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I agree with most of your post, and I don't think a Layton-led NDP would be good for Canada nationally, but I have to correct this point:
The provincial NDP decimated the economies of BC and Ontario, true, but they've done (surprisingly!) well in Saskatchewan. You could argue that a more centrist or right-wing government could have done better, but Saskatchewan has gone from being a have not to a have province on the NDP's watch. Of course most of the credit goes to rising commodity prices and the province's wealth of natural resources (oil, uranium, potash), but one might have expected the NDP to tax the corporations harvesting those resources to death, driving them elsewhere. That obviously hasn't happened.