Duane Bratt Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Duane Bratt It may be too early to write a political obituary for Jim Prentice but clearly he's worried, there's a reason most governments don't run an election on a bad news budget, a budget where they raised taxes for the first time since the 1980s. Duane Bratt energy The symbolism of being able to campaign on a surplus is very important to the Conservatives, which is why they may go (to the polls) before October, there may be a sweet spot in the fiscal year where they can say they have a surplus that may not exist in the rest of the year. Duane Bratt energy It has been a long five years of an economic downturn and people blame the Trudeau government. Everybody knows somebody who's lost their job. Duane Bratt
