Arrant nonsense. When elected the NDP typically inherit a mess from their conservative predecessors. In Saskatchewan, Roy Romanow replaced the Grant Devine government in 1991, which not only ran up huge deficits but was riddled with crooks, several of whom were convicted of fraud. Roman and Calvert left the province immeasurably better off than they'd found it. In BC Mike Harcourt took over from the disgraced Social Credit government of Bill Vander Zalm--a government which had sowed unnecessary strife in the province by gutting the Labour Code and trying, unsuccessfully, to de-insure abortions. As for Alberta, 44 years of Conservative rule failed to wean the province off its excessive dependence on oil. Rachel Notley and the NDP are doing an admirable job of dealing with an extremely difficult situation.  Not for them the slash-and-burn approach taken by Ralph Klein.