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Originally Posted by transplant99
No question that the NDP have made the correct decision here and for that, ALL Albertans should be thankful. Rachel Notley and crew are finally showing they do live in reality at moments.
However, it is also now fair game to wonder what all their bluster during the campaign was really all about. When you look at the actual platform they ran on, and all the statements that were in black and white on their website, it's very apparent that one of two things has to be factual and true:
A) they flat out lied about the royalty system being unfair to Albertans and disingenuously parroted it over and over all the while knowing nothing would change but it was a great way to discredit their opponents.
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B) They truly had no clue what the hell they were talking about even though leadership had full access to how things worked and could easily have informed themselves. Then they chose not to as it would take away the possibility of being "right" through all their rhetoric.
Niether one of those things should go unchallenged by the media nor their constituents because it means they have cost thousands Albertans their livlihoods by being liars or incompetent and that is unacceptable.
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It's about the same kind of election promise of we will find inefficiencies in government to lower taxes and reduce debt that gets parroted by every party. Or Trudeaus Syrian refugee commitments. or every party Evers the books are so much worse than we thought they are.
What differentiates good politicians and bad are the ones who when faced with reality have the strength to go against the platform pledges and execute good governance.
The royalty review did not accomplish nothing it's changed some factors of how things ar calculated. It will take some time before each sector can say they benefit or are hurt by the smaller changes.
And it's quite a bit of hyperbole to say that 1000s of jobs were lost due to the uncertainty created by this review. Someone earlier made a good point that light conventional oil and gas drilling was hurt by this review so definitely some jobs lost there.