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Originally Posted by Ducay
Her biggest problem is oil prices/differentials. If she had any cash to do good with, I'm sure she'd be doing a lot more than just breaking promises and cutting spending. Oh well, it is what it is.
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I agree with that to some extent, except that the oil differential has always been there. A lot of the problem is that we (as a province) seem to have fallen for our own hype. All this talk about us being an energy superpower just doesn't work economically at this time when we have a product to sell into a congested market, and can't get top dollar for the product.
Politically the opposition parties in general have a habit of telling voters "we can make everything better" and that's hard to believe. I know the PCs do that as well, so I'm not giving them a pass here, but they're the devil we know. When the opposition parties say they have a fix-all I get suspicious because chances are they have no idea what they're talking about. They haven't seen the books and don't have all of the information, but then they stand up and say watch me fix everything.
If it were me, I would run on a platform of "we're not spending any more money, until we figure out WTF is going on. The government has poured money and resources after things, and we want things to get better, but we simply don't know how to do that until we untangle their running disaster.".