I know a few people who like to watch the same movie over and over again. I’m not sure how they do it because it would just seem to be repetitious even after a couple of viewings. That was sort of the feeling that I had listening to the NDP government’s Throne Speech this past Tuesday. Throughout the speech I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had seen this movie before. In fact it felt like I had seen it many times before.

The NDP talked about the importance of improving our roads. That is something they have been talking about for 13 years. Yet, year after year it seems or infrastructure is getting worse, not better. That is partly because the NDP often don’t put the money they budget for roads actually into roads. Often that money gets diverted to pay for overspending in other parts of government. Yet, there it was talked about in the Throne Speech again on Tuesday.

And, once again, the NDP talked in the Throne Speech about controlling the cost of government. They’ve been talking about that for several years and it seems the more they talk about it the higher the debt gets. Since being elected to office the debt has actually doubled. But like that movie that gets watched again and again, the script hasn’t changed.

There was much talk in the Throne Speech about keeping Manitoba an affordable place to live. Two years ago the NDP said that in their Throne Speech and then tacked PST onto home insurance. Last year they talked about keeping things affordable and then surprised everyone a few months later with an increase to the PST. The more the NDP talk about affordability the more they tax people.

Interestingly, Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger was asked on Tuesday whether he would increase the PST from 8% to 9% and he said absolutely not. Of course he said the same thing in 2011 about increasing it from 7% to 8% so Manitobans should be hanging on to their wallets.

And once again the Throne Speech talked about reducing wait times in hospitals and emergency rooms and yet every year those wait times grow and grow. Of course, that’s if you are lucky enough to live in a community where your emergency room is actually open. And once again the NDP are promising to fix that problem too.

There is another reason I don’t like to watch the same movie over and over again. It’s too predictable because you already have seen the ending. And when it comes to the NDP Throne Speeches it’s much the same. The ending is always predictable. Promises get made, and few are actually kept.