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Originally Posted by nik-
Yeah, sorry no. Tanking prices and business closes up shop is definitely the wrong time.
I'm still voting for NDP this election, but that was a dumb move.
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But why was it a dumb move?
Do you know what the actual result/changes to the royalty structure actually were and why it was a pretty positive result for everyone involved, and how we reaped the benefits of that when prices were high, and when prices tanked during the pandemic? And how we are reaping those benefits now? More importantly how they UCP is taking credit for that to claim they are somehow the greatest example of financial acumen in the country?
That's great that you're voting NDP, but why are you spouting a talking point against them when it seems your only reasoning is "Nuh uh, it's bad"?
I can understand why people might think that, but the reality is, getting it done was the right decision, and anyone who uses that against the NDP is incredibly misguided.
For once we had a government who was willing to go through some short term pain for a real long term benefit, and you want to penalize them for it?
Meanwhile the alternative is sitting on your hands and keeping an inferior system in place so you can wait for "A good time", that will never actually come.
To add/be clear. At the time, I said a lot of the same things, and was about as anti-NDP as they come. But I can't argue with results. It was the right decision at the time, and I'm glad they didn't listen to people like me who couldn't seen the long term benefits we would all reap.
Seeing how they handled that, especially when what the review panel came back with wasn't what a lot of NDP supporters wanted, but they implemented it anyway, is one of the best examples of good governing I've seen in my lifetime. I can't think of a single example of anything even remotely similar that the UCP has done since.