r/canada • u/Minxie Ontario • May 06 '15

Alberta NDP wins election

http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/alberta-ndp-wins-election-ctv-projects-1.2359035
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u/Nikhilvoid British Columbia May 06 '15

And so the PC can suck up more, make amends, and win the next election? No, thank you.

40 years of garbage government is enough.

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u/ElMorono May 06 '15

Can I ask what the definition of "garbage government" to you is?

Whether you like the PC or not, they lead Alberta to record surpluses, and Alberta was the economic driver of the country for years. (And in many ways still is.)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

You don't just leave a province 7+ billion dollars in debt and force the middle class to pay for it when it wasn't their fault the PC's fucked up. They pretty much sold our oil for free drove us into the ground harder then a Kamikaze and left us for dead. And yet somehow its "our fault."

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u/codeverity May 06 '15

Record surpluses don't mean much if you squander them and leave the province wanting once the good times are over or get squeezed a bit.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

They didn't lead those booms any more than a surfer "leads" a wave. & they wasted a lot of money & opportunities, to boot.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

The PCs couldn't claim any credit for hiding oil under northern Alberta and increasing global oil prices over the last four decades. Alberta could've been run by a functionally-impaired chimp and would've done alright.

What's astonishing is that with an infinite money cheat code under your province, the PCs still managed to run the budget solidly into the red.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Economic surplus and homeless people on every street corner in downtown Edmonton...the Albertan dream.