Keith Gerein: Avoid getting caught in numbers game when evaluating NDP, UCP platforms

The UCP’s election platform book is 117 pages long, while the NDP’s election platform book is 44 pages long.
These are important numbers, not because they indicate anything about the quality of the respective platforms, but because they can be easily counted and classified as verified, irrefutable facts.
As for most other numbers printed in the policy books — and there are an awful lot of them — it’s much more difficult for Albertans to distinguish fact from conject