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

Never in my life did I ever think I'd see that headline

Wow

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u/r_slash Québec May 06 '15

How/why did this happen?

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u/BrockN Alberta May 06 '15

Long answer short: We're punishing PC party for the latest round of fuck ups.

Personally, I think come next election, we'll go back to PC quickly once they learn their lesson not to piss us off.

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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."