"Anyone can take credit for economic serendipity, but Mr. Wall also earned merit for how he managed the windfall, at least, in the early years...."

It is journalism like this that cements lies into history. Wall's government ran an almost unbroken series of budget deficits, much of them during a resource price boom. Add the GTH land purchase scandal and it is difficult to give this cut and runner credit for anything but hoodwinking the rural vote by appealing to the baser instincts of humanity (greed and prejudice, in particular). 

Brad Wall = Grant Devine 2.0.  Same unsustainable fiscal formula, same fiscal disaster.

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