This is about saving her butt in the election next year, the fact it will be damaging to the economy is irrelevant the Liberals care about one thing and one thing only, winning on June 7th.  How about do what is best for the province as they need to remember all parties eventually get defeated and the longer they stay in power the worse the defeat is.  Losing in 2018 will probably be not as bad than if they end up staying until 2022 when the desire for change will be even stronger.  This is a policy about trying to shore up their lousy poll numbers not good policy.