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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
You keep saying this Rube and with all due respect, that's not how the opposition works and you know it.
The oppositions job is not to campaign and create shadow budgets and talk about how to fix un-employment. That literally happens during an election.
The oppositions job is to call attention to the failings of the government, call attention to the bad policies. and the terrible decisions that the government is making.
Thomas Mulcair federally never platforms when he's in opposition, his job is to ask questions and poke holes and criticize. Trudeau when he was in opposition never came up with a shadow budget, nor plans to improve employment.
BTW I think that Wildrose used to promote Shadow Budgets and other things like that and it got little to no traction.
Its not the oppositions job to govern and create policy. Its their job to be in opposition to what the government is doing.
Why would they want to give away their election platform?
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I'm not solely pinning this on the WRP or the PCs. It's an obnoxious trend that we're seeing in politics as a whole. It's not like there isn't a history of parties doing shadow budgets or proposing alternative policies either. It's one of the things I liked about the Reform and Canadian Alliance in the 90s and early 00s.
There's also another way of thinking about and that is if the WRP or PCs have a better plan than the NDP and they're sitting on it until the next election, what does that say about their priorities, that they're more concerned about getting elected than getting Albertans back to work? Isn't this exactly what people are harping on the NDP for? I get that the likelihood of either party getting any of their proposals passed is slim to none but is there not some sort of moral obligation there? I'm being a bit facetious, but if one of the opposition parties came up with a cure for cancer, would we think it reasonable of them to wait until they were elected to release it?
Like I said, it's not really a criticism of the WRP and PCs specifically, but the sad state of politics in general.