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Originally Posted by Slava
Oh, don't get me wrong I don't want to defend that policy and say that we should've kept it rolling. I just have a hard time believing that the entire recession that we went through at that time had nothing to do with the problems faced by Alberta citizens.
I also think that continually bringing the policy up thrity years later is just fear-mongering. We don't like it when the Liberals paint the CPC as scary and having a hidden agenda, but its seemingly OK for the CPC to pain the Liberals in that same light? Makes no sense.
Frankly though I don't know why I bother to bring this up, or even address it. Its like talking to a wall.
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How is it a hidden agenda? The Liberal party has flat out continued to have policies in their platform that target the Alberta energy sector, they make no bones about it.
And you can see why people echo back to the NEP because its the most obvious comparison to the Green Shift and so on, so when Albertan's see that the first thing that they do is compare the possible effects to the NEP.
When we hear talk about the Conservative hidden agenda by the Liberals, its not based around economics, its based around really blatent personal liberties fear mongering, Abortion, Death Penalty, recinding Gay Marriage, yet I don't see these things in the Conservative party Platform. So we get the whole, if you give them a majority these things will all be recinded, and then the troops will hit the streets, George Bush will be named Emperor etc etc.
I guess you could say that the fear mongering about the Liberals is based on whats published in their red book. The fear mongering about the Conservatives is based on hidden agenda's that can't be proven.