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Originally Posted by Parallex
No they wouldn't... just because they ostensibly support a balanced budget in the shorter-term (although I think it's baloney, neither would do it) doesn't mean they'd support the actual spending iniatives. I mean that neither would support spending the money on what the other would spend it on regardless of whether the debit-credit balance was zero, deficit, or surplus.
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Yeah, I'm just kind of astounded at Mulcair giving lip service to balancing the budget to appear more middle of the road. I fear the NDP are moving to the centre like the Labour Party in Britain although this may ease the fears of the right wing that the Socialist Horde is going to take over.
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Blair was a polarizing figure in the British labour movement in the 1990s and 2000s. He spent much of his time as prime minister moving the party toward the centre. By the end of his premiership in 2007 people joked he was liked more by the conservatives than his own party.
Mulcair says that’s what Canadians are looking for.
“I think what Canadians want are people who are realists, who understand for example the importance of our extractive industries and the creation of jobs but they also want to have a government that’s actually going to enforce rules of sustainable development like polluter pay. We can do both.”
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http://globalnews.ca/news/1409121/nd...-mushy-middle/