Not a surprise...the non supporters are likely most candidate hopefulls and thier backers, hoping Ralph leaves sooner then later.
Right now, any one of us could run the province with its huge surplus, and benefits from some of Ralph's mid-90's cutbacks which trimmed a lot of the fat in this province and allowed it to grow into what it is today.
A bitter pill at the time for many, but the efficiencies created by Ralph back then laid the ground wook for this province moving miles ahead of others (resource revenue or not) in terms of economic responsiblity and government spending actaully being most often proper.
So you have a bunch of people in the Party looking to be the one to win and get on the Resource Revenue Train and sit back on cruise control and reap the rewards of being the leader of the richest and probabaly most efficiently run province in the country. The hard work and real tough decisions on the hot button issues are pretty much done for the next 5 years.
End of an era is right.
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