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Originally Posted by Locke
True enough, but they also lost it for the exact same reason.
It would be nice if a political party just did a good job for a while but then again my inventory of Bridge Deeds is getting rather lofty.
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Well but you even had the WRP doing their own version during campaign by promising not to raise any taxes and to do a massive layoff of government workers. Not addressing the revenue situation, and adding thousands more to the unemployment ranks while cutting public services at a time when more people are likely to be accessing them is pretty bad policy, but it plays well with fiscal conservatives.
The irony in all of this of course is that the NDP used to be the party that was designed to represent the interest of its membership and constituents at the cost of ever forming government, and that model has largely fallen by the wayside. With the way in which the party system has evolved in Canada over the last 50-60 years, we're definitely getting more career politicians than principled policymakers and bureaucrats.