“Anyone who says you can get to balance in two years or three years is talking about laying off thousands and thousands of teachers, not moving ahead with school construction, cancelling hospital projects, laying off nurses — that’s the only way you balance the budget in the next couple of years,” she said.

Yes Comrade. That is exactly what has to happen. 

Had you made that difficult decision you may have been rewarded with a second or more terms on the government side of the house. 

Your refusal to face reality has ensured NDP will be will be a four letter word in Alberta for generations to come.  I am confident there will never be another NDP government in Alberta in my lifetime.