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Originally Posted by Grimbl420
What your describing is a difference in ideology. Both can be pragmatists if both are achieving their desired goals through action, which both seem to be doing in your examples.
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I think this is it entirely. The goals are completely different but I don't think one is more or less ideologically focused than the other. The NDP are focused on climate change regardless of the financial cost. Klein was focused on paying down the Debt regardless of the social costs.
The NDP policies may end up costing the province a lot in lose investment and extra costs. But Klein's policies also cost a lot in successive governments needing to play catchup and spending on infrastructure during a boom which highly inflated costs.
Their ideologies are vastly different but I don't think one was less ideological driven than the other.
I think a better comparison would have been Bob paying nothing to upkeep his home in order to pay it off fast not regarding how much it would cost in the future. And Joe is charging his credit card to keep his house up to snuff not regarding how much extra it is going to cost to pay off.