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Originally Posted by Ironhorse
The only reason the Alberta NDP formed a government was due to them benefiting from a split vote between the PC and the WildRose parties. They are what is known as an accidental government.
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That’s pretty much irrelevant. They got enough votes, that’s all that counts. They went from 10% of the popular vote to 40%, had they stayed at 10% the vote split between conservatives and wild rose wouldn’t have mattered, as the conservative would still be in power.
The accidental government thing is a nice Kenney quote, but it doesn’t hold much water when you consider the fact that polls showed more people from the Wildrose and the PC party viewed the NDP as their second option, not the other Conservative party.
At the end of the day, nothing was an accident. The PC party absolutely demolished their own chances of being elected by ruining this province, and they left it for others to clean up only to come back and say “Hey, we’re ready to clean up this mess now!”
If you’re buying it, more power to you. But a government that can’t control debt in a period of high resource income is not a government I trust to control debt when the money isn’t flowing.