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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
so lets be honest, do you think that if she had stood up and said, I'm going to increase corporate tax rates and personal tax rates and implement a carbon tax that she would have come anywhere close to winning the election?
Not a chance, and saying I'm going to form a climate change committee is a far cry from I'm going to implement a carbon tax.
It would be similar to telling my kids that I'm going to talk with their mother about the status of their allowance instead of telling them outright that I'm going to cut their allowance.
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To be honest, she may have still been elected because people were so fed up with the conservatives. (Edit: what belsarius said)
I see your point that it wasn't 100% stated as such, however the carbon tax was a possible outcome from the climate change committee's findings so it's far from a bait and switch, politicians get to make decisions while in office, I'm sure if over a decade ago Ralph Klein would have told voters "I'm going to balance the budget, and then give $400 to every single person living in Alberta as opposed to putting it towards public services or infrastructure" a lot of people would have been up in arms, but he was able to do it because it was his call at the time.