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Originally Posted by Slava
She lost me by the end. I think that people look back on her time with rose-tinted glasses. For me, the carbon tax implementation and borrowing for operations were absolute deal-breakers. There is no other description for that, other than sheer fiscal incompetence. You can chalk some things up to inexperience and I'll go along with that. But when you are so daft as to borrow for operations and try to paint it as 'Keynesian", I'm out. It's incredibly stupid.
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Originally Posted by Thunderball
This. There are a lot of issues with the UCP, but anyone who sees the NDP as good fiscal stewards in comparison needs to take a step back.
Alberta needs an actual fiscal conservative party that isn't handcuffed with ideology. The closest is the Alberta Party, but they need a lot of work.
Alberta also needs to forge some deals within Canada, and be able to use that bloc to force the government's hand. Getting Ontario and Saskatchewan to help push Trudeau on Keystone is what we need more of.
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It is a myth that conservatives are good economic stewards. There is virtually no history of a economically successful conservative government in North America for generations now. If you are looking for a reason to support conservatives, don't use money. The hole we are in was dug by the PCs, and UPC has no vision to fix the economy beyond hope.