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Originally Posted by Phalanx
Sure, right after the Tories do the same (and retroactively, at that) for getting the province into the mess in the first place. But sure, lets blame the people who have to clean it up...
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Dexter shouldn't have made the promises, but he would be stupider still to try and keep them. Nova Scotia is slowly, but surely going over the financial cliff and has been for generations and we don't have any magic solutions in our cupboard to draw upon. No real assets to sell like NB and no great resource bonanza waiting to be tapped like NFLD. Worse yet is the impending demographic crunch and the long-term decline in our offshore (Sable has peaked and Deep Panuke is small). Things are only going to get worse for us if we don't decide to either cut programs or raise taxes or some combination of the two to get our house in order. Dexter may find it was a really bad time to have been elected premier.