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Originally Posted by Slava
Well all I know is that if the Wildrose would do the exact same thing in this situation then its a moot point. I like the attempt to trot out a "we would do the same thing but for a better reason" line, but at the end of the day it doesn't matter. The Wildrose would be doing the same, and no they wouldn't be any closer than the PCs to balancing the budget.
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I can't tell you what Wildrose would hypothetically have done, but your attempt at deflection misses the mark. If Wildrose formed government, but the MacLeod riding was still held by the PCs, and they cancelled it, then you might have a comparable situation.
My point is that this college was announced six years ago. The PC's have been touting it ever since. Then suddenly, after an election in which they lost the seat in that riding, all of the police chiefs supposedly wrote in to say the facility would never be properly used? The timing of that is remarkably convenient.
We really are left with two options here. Either the PCs are incompetent to the point that they failed to assess the viability of such a school a half-decade ago, or the cancellation (and likely the initial announcement) was political. I asked above why the government didn't slash the school in the February budget if it wanted to save costs, but we both know that was a rhetorical question. If it had, the PCs were guaranteed to lose the riding. So they strung everyone along for political advantage, then pulled the plug when that advantage failed to materialize
And given many contracts were apparently signed, I wonder just what we will have to pay in cancellation penalties.
And now, of course, the government has come out and admitted that the deficit it called for before the election was a lie, and the truth is up to four times worse. It might well be a good thing that people were foolish enough to vote for Ric McIver. If they hadn't, Redford might have blown up the south hospital to save money.