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Originally Posted by Slava
This is kind of a strange take to me (about the spending). Are you suggesting that if the NDP was in power they would've spent less? I can't see that at all. They would've spent on different things, but it's not like they're preaching austerity and instead we have the free-spending UCP.
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I think as pointed out before, they might not have spent less, but the would have more purposefully directed their spending with a future vision.
I don't even bemoan the spending Prentice did trying to buy that election, I think a lot of it was much needed schools. But they threw their stated principals out the window, spent for political purposes rather than societal goals, strolled into a downturn with a blindfold on and blamed the NDP for global economic conditions that actually took root before they were even in power.
I was just pointing out how certain aspects of that story seem to echo 2015.
As others have pointed out, even when the NDP makes costly choices, like the coal contracts. There are downstream benefits we gain, such as improved health outcomes, social license to push a pipeline through... because there is an ends to their actions. The later PC & UPC had costly choices for bad reasons, such as buying votes, or propping up flailing industries with government resources as though they are the central planning committee in a 70s Soviet state (yes I am countering the insane right wing talking to that the ANDP are socialists by calling the UPC socialist).