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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
I think the difference is that during the election three parties were saying that we were in trouble and one party was saying that the future was rosy. The Wildrose said we had a spending problem and the Lib's/NDP figured it was a revenue problem. The PC's continually stated that there was no problem. I think the three other parties would have been trying to fix the problem 9 months ago. It definitely wouldn't have been easy and they wouldn't likely be showing results yet but we could be on the right path.
It took years for the PC's to get us in this situation and other than a resource boom it will take a while to get out of it.
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While that's fair, the reality is the one party that said "spending problem" also gave no concrete examples of where they were feasibly save the money either. In all honesty, we'd be in the exact same position right now if the polls had held and the Wildrose pulled off the upset. They were just as reliant on fossil fuel revenue and couldn't cut enough spending to balance the budget. It's the same reason we don't hear anything concrete from them today though because it's not a simple solution.