It is tremendous difficult to wean the public off of a perk/funding, etc. Previous Liberal governments (Chreatin, Martin) were actually good at cutting. They never announced that X was permanently going away, they just reduce or defund the program. If it blew up in their face, then they just push money back into the shell. The Conservatives, would announce the cut and do it and then have to wear the heat, with very little room to manoeuvre. When Harper took over, there was a huge number of empty program shells that took years to clean up.
If you want to form a government here in Canada now, you will need to be near the centre and work slowly and carefully to reduce it. The CPC is to quick with the knife. The Conservatives in BC are a total mess, who need a fresh face with good experience behind them, not to far right and willing to be a harsh disciplinarian with party members and keeping policy statements and promises within provincial matters and not allow the party to get baited by the NDP.
I have always said the Liberals are much better lairs than the Conservatives. A Liberal will tell people what they want to hear and then do something else. The Conservatives just are not that good at that.
