Reading Time: 3 minutes The slow path to balance means the province will continue adding debt by the bucketful for many years, penalizing future taxpayers
Tag: Alberta budget
Alberta can learn big lessons from a small First Nation
Reading Time: 3 minutes Run a surplus when times are good. Don’t build up spending commitments that are unsustainable in less prosperous times
Alberta’s fiscal fiasco threat to future generations of Albertans
Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite an improving economy, the provincial government still projects $9.1-billion deficit
Balancing Alberta’s budget by 2023-24 isn’t good enough
Reading Time: 3 minutes Albertans have more debt, continued reliance on volatile natural resource revenue and higher taxes to look forward to
Alberta’s disastrous fall from fiscal grace
Reading Time: 3 minutes In just 12 years, the province’s net financial position will have deteriorated by a staggering $80 billion
Notley’s wrongheaded path leads to deficit disaster
Reading Time: 3 minutes Marked spending increases by the NDP government will push the net debt to $10,000 per Albertan by 2019-20
Alberta’s dangerous debt binge isn’t over yet
Reading Time: 3 minutes The burden foisted on future generations of Albertans is staggering. By 2019-20, Alberta’s net government debt is expected to reach $45.2 billion
Alberta finance minister fear-mongers after credit rating downgrade
Reading Time: 3 minutes Rather than raise the spectre of massive disruptions to public services, Ceci should look to Saskatchewan for an example of productive spending discipline
Alberta’s run of deficits tower over Ontario’s worst
Reading Time: 3 minutes The silver lining for Albertans is that until last year it was the only province with no net debt. But that’s changing quickly and the burden falls on taxpayers
Implausible government budgeting undermines trust
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fed’s Bill Morneau and Alberta’s Joe Ceci say their budgets are realistic, but they’ve provided no evidence that they’re even plausible