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Originally Posted by MattyC

I was referring to DURING the election, when people have concrete platforms they need to run on, and when they made the promises you are saying they are breaking now. From April-July 2015, oil was seeing a rise back to around $60/bbl after the big crash in late 2014. Oil began to fall steadily through the fall and by the end of the election was pushing below $40/bbl. By December we were into $30/bbl and some days showing under that.

My point is that, during this time, their budgets SHOULD have changed. You are chastising the Liberals for coming out with an initial projection and then changing it. Well, they should be changing it when our most valuable resource and largest GDP indicator is nose diving before our eyes.

It would be scarier to me if any government that was in power, whether Cons Libs or NDP, didn't change their budgets from what they had when the price was even mediocre.

It's like the opposite of the NDP argument being used by the same people. They had plans, which may have been OK with high oil prices, but then they started to tank, and even the most ardent NDP supporters had to admit that the NDPs plans just weren't feasible in that environment. But the NDP stayed the course with their plans (or delayed action) and were rightfully lambasted for not adapting to what was happening. So is the "promise breaking" really what's bothering you, or is it the method?

Now we have the Liberals trying to adapt to what has happened, and the same people are hating on that. You can argue the method, the theory, you can hate the ideologies behind where the money is going all you want, that's fine. But you can't crap on them for adapting their strategy when it HAS to be adapted. The way it is adapted, that is totally fair game.

Yeah but the budget we got doesn't reflect what you're talking about. Revenue is down a fraction of the deficit. But the majority of the deficit, 17.5 billion, is spending, much more spending than we were promised. Also I'm not sure oil revenue projections four years out changed that much during the six months of campaigning.