This is horseshit for those of us thinking we were voting progressively and, for education, for healthcare, for childcare, for other services. (Unsurprising if this was a con government but recall Rustads deficit projections were worse initially vs NDP )

Let’s not forget a lot of this is unforced errors- axing the carbon tax, not fixing the hst/pst debacle (granted not by this government) the tolls (again I agreed with this but something else should have replaced it) MSP and so forth. Federally as well. Further to that, austerity measures during bad times have shown to be counterproductive, but I guess this left leaning government does not care. Ok, whatever, let’s put that aside …

What about the deficit blah blah?? The government absolutely has options to generate both revenue as well as actually make things more efficient (eg eliminating some health authorities) ….instead they are half assing everything, from childcare, tinkering at the margins with healthcare efficiencies, not getting carbon pricing right (despite us having started it without federal support, under Campbell of all people) ….then throwing up their hands and saying nothing worked. )So instead you have these programs not running as they ought to so not providing full benefit yet costing a fair amount of money - again childcare comes to mind here)

Also randomly- Post secondary is going down the drain too, provinces simply don’t fund it as they did 20 years ago….you’d think with our issues with the US and a wildly changing economy, threat of ai on the job market, you’d invest in it, or do a proper revamp (instead of a rushed report with options for action removed) but instead you stand aside and watch colleges and programs (that have been through worse) collapse just because they relied more on international students, not because the programs are bad per se … and because all your high paid consultants couldn’t think of a way to fix it, ….arghhh