So now Alison Redford has confirmed what was obvious to everyone else - her government's new plans to go into debt were not something they felt compelled to mention during the recent provincial election.
Yesterday, the Premier admitted that the Tories didn't campaign on a pledge to go into debt - in fact, they campaigned on a promise to balance the budget. Not only that, but they were quite optimistic about the economy moving forward. Now, less than seven months later, the Premier is trying to argue that things have changed dramatically. She claims the economy has worsened since the election and the government must adapt.
However, all the uncertainties plaguing the economy in November were there in April, too. In fact, everyone other than the Tories seemed to be pointing them out.
During that same election campaign, Alison Redford was quite dismissive of the notion of citizens-initiated referendums.
One release for example slammed the Wildrose Party for, "abdicat(ing) leadership on important issues of the day" by supporting for citizens initiative. Redford said, "Albertans want to know what their leaders think on the issues, so they can trust them to provide the leadership the province needs."
Well, Albertans do want to know what their leaders think, for example, if their leaders believe the province should to go back into debt.
If anyone is abdicating leadership here, it's the party leader who didn't have the courage to try and sell Albertans on the need to go into debt, and instead took the easy way out
Listen to what Redford had to say yesterday:
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