PS forgive my terse tone, I read my post and realised I was a bit short. Was simply mortified the NDP was going to get in and enact their plans, if one thinks the books look bad now...
The real worry was a party on a spending platform who wanted to attack and shut down the funds generating projects on the horizon, in a province in recession. The austerity measures in the north (we see them too) are because the Province already mismanages and spends too much, NDP wanted to further that plan. Of course, they're only second to the Greens in anti-hunting as well. NDP is a leftist urban centrist party today, that's their support base, they have to please them.