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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I've notice Smith has made a lot of spending promises, is buying votes all over the place, but has she had any ideas on reducing government spending? I always hear form Conservatives government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem. Maybe it's just the high royalties right now convincing her there is money for everything, but how different would things be if she had the same funding constraints as we did the past 6-8 years? Has she announced anything ever that deals with expenditures?
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Slightly off-topic, but as I understand it a number of the large oil sands projects were fully paid off recently and no longer pay reduced royalties. How much of a difference does this make to the government’s bottom line and would it lessen the impact of downturns?