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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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Considering the fact that the NEP was 30 years ago, as well as considering the average age of those actually going out to vote, I would suggest that the massive majority of the voting public in Alberta was directly impacted by this policy. It is not some fuzzy distant memory of something from the past. This is something that directly impacted them and devastated their or their parents' livelihood. I don't understand how these people are supposed to ignore something so painful.
But going back to Seb's prisoner dilemma, based on current and past policies our potential loss from forgiving the Libs far exceeds our potential gain. On the flip side, the potential gains for the Libs by forgiving us (by attempting to implement some sort of policy that benefits Albertans) far exceeds the potential loss. I think the prisoner dilemma only really works when there is some kind of balance to this equation.