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Originally Posted by Slava
I can only assume that the Wildrose suggesting a deficit wasn't just a stroke of luck. They knew darn well that they weren't able to balance the budget and if they couldn't then they weren't sure how anyone else could either. That's hardly commendable.
We have no idea how they were going to balance the budget. The only suggestion we heard from them was the Carbon Capture, and I believe its been noted dozens of times that this wasn't enough to do it because
A) It wasn't $2B because most of that was spent
B) The government had already entered into a number of JV's and presumably those partners wouldn't be thrilled with a sudden change in course just based on a whim.
The funny thing about the CCS for the Wildrose is that it sounds exactly like the NDP and left-wingers when they talk about re-regulating the electricity markets. Its just not that simple, and would end up costing a fortune because of the lawsuits that would inevitably follow.
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Once again you are totally missing the point. Regardless of the numerous budget cutting measures they suggested both during the election and afterwards that you ignore and/or pretend don't exist... it doesn't change the fact that the Liberal or NDP projections were equally as bad or likely even worse.
It's a plain fact that the Wildrose party would have had the smallest budget deficit, if at all, of any of the 4 parties.