"So really the Saskatchewan NDP (particularly under Roy Romanow) and the Manitoba NDP under Gary Doer were extremely fiscally responsible. Everywhere else the NDP have been extremely poor fiscal stewards."

It's not on topic, but ...

I'd suggest that conflating 'poor fiscal steward' and running a deficit is, as a generalization, a mistake. A case can certainly be made for the exact opposite, in fact; tightening the fiscal screws in the face of economic headwinds is likely to make a bad economy worse. Fiscal mis-management, now; while more difficult to diagnose it's certainly something to be avoided in all economic environments.  Incurring huge cancellation fees for potential political gain is bad bad bad, even if the 'bad' comes from writing an inferior contract. It's merely depressing that the top two parties were both in favour of such badness.