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Originally Posted by MarchHare
You say you can't argue with results, but you're choosing to ignore the good work done during the Chretien/Martin years where our economy was very strong, the budget was balanced, the federal debt was being paid down, personal and corporate taxes were reduced, and they put in place (as CaptainCrunch noted above) strong banking legislation that largely protected Canada from many of the problems that plagued the US financial industry during the recession.
I know it's not popular in Alberta to say anything positive about the Liberals because of a bad government policy from 30 years ago enacted by politicians who are now either retired or dead, but you have to give credit where it's due. The previous Liberal government did a great job with the economy and budget, work that has mostly been continued by Harper's team (I give him a pass for putting us into deficit spending again because of the recession).
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Except it didn't end thirty years ago. I remember Chretien bitching that Albertan's didn't think right.
I also remember his arrogance when he flew over Alberta during a campaign and couldn't be bothered to stop in this province.
I remember when he decided to punish Calgary by moving our military base to Edmonton because we didn't vote in his candidates.
The Liberal's after the NEP and the back lash from that decided that we weren't going to vote for them so we weren't worth the effort, which is a horrible attitude to have for a supposed party of national interest.
And I give the Liberal's lots of credit for their banking programs, but I think that we exaggerate a bit on their budgets. Yes they balanced them, but they did it on the back or transfer payments, the pension, and healthcare which is now pretty much in a death spiral.