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Originally Posted by rubecube
I'm not sure I would call his economic platform. I'd need to know what it actually was to do that. Not that my vote really mattered, as my riding is pretty strongly NDP, but I would've at least considered giving them my vote if they had presented anything tangible.
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His economic strategy entailed saying no to any new oil pipelines, imposing more strict limits on the natural gas and mining sectors, reviewing the labour code, granting more generous subsidies to the film industry, and taxing corporates and individuals that make over $150,000 per year more heavily. So in other words everything proposed outside of film tax credits would be more negative than the staus quo for the economy. The reason why they were leading so high in the polls for so long had nothing to do with how pleased everyone was with NDP policy and everything to do with dissatisfaction with the Liberals being in power too long and a few major Liberal scandals. The winning hand for Dix was probably to not offer big change in the form of policy, but rather just change with respect to who's in government. Sure they would have lost votes to the greens, but they wouldn't have lost all the votes who switched back to the Liberals in the final weeks scared of what the NDP would do to the economy.
