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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj
Alison Redford was elected in 2012, promising to "balance the budget by 2012-13 without raising taxes." She inherited a 200 million dollar deficit from Steady Eddie.
She resigns today having accumulated over 8.3 BILLION dollars in debt for all Albertans, with a plan to run that to 21 Billion by 2016.
It's somewhat amazing that she was ousted on a 45k expense.
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Danielle Smith was also elected in 2012 and promised they could balance the budget. You recognize that with their budget document this year it was a deficit as well, right? I know you're going to say "well they don't have power, so it doesn't count" (or something like that). To me that only makes it worse. Here the opposition doesn't even have to deliver, and they can't get the books to balance. That doesn't fill me with confidence that were they in power they could somehow make it work out.