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Originally Posted by 1overcosc
Brown has made pro-infrastructure spending part of his pitch. He spends a lot of time criticizing the Liberals for not having built GO RER; while that does show ignorance in that it ignores the fact that projects have lead times in design and planning, it does show commitment to transit.
While I can see a future government not making new promises, I have a hard time seeing a post-2018 government scrapping things already promised.
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I predict it will go like this. There will be shock "surprise" at how bad the books are. At that point they will need to make drastic cuts to bring things into balance and also pay for their tax cuts which will be nccessary to stimulate the weak economy.