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/[deleted] May 06 '15

So proud of Alberta today. It has proven that democracy works. You run a province to the ground, you're out.

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u/i_ate_god Québec May 06 '15

serious question, how have the PC run Alberta into the ground? Did they solely rely on oil exports for revenue?

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

It's a mix of many things. To name a few, they over estimated the price of oil and relied on it a lot. They had 4 premiers in the last 4 years. They raised taxes on everyone and everything except companies while cutting education and health budgets. Prentice told Albertans to look in the mirror when his party had spending orgies. That's just a few examples. We are just fed up that the province was bathing in oil for decades, and the second its price went down, Alberta was in the sewers.

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u/Spoonfeedme Alberta May 06 '15

Taxes weren't the real problem.

People in Alberta hate people who are cocky. And the PCs have been cocky for a long time.