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It would be the honorable thing to do but I wouldn't put any money on it. They've alienated too many people.
J.C. That's a lot of money. Has the UPC screwed up that badly or do they want to use the deficit as ammunition to change the transfer payment agreement relationship with Ottawa and the other provinces? Migration into Alberta didn't create those kind of deficit forecasts. Not everybody that moved to Alberta is unemployed and using the health care and education system pro bono as the UPC would have the electorate believe.
You could start with their pigheaded foolishness in refusing to implement a Harmonized Sales Tax. Then you could move on to lowering corporate and personal income taxes when there was no need to do either. Then you could look at the costs of the past and pending coal lawsuits, cancelling alternative energy projects, continued subsidizing of the oil and gas sector, Keystone, unaccounted Covid spending, Sturgeon Refinery, scrapped superlab, selling to Dynalife and then purchasing Dynalife, Turkish Tylenol, the "war room", AHS restructuring costs (from one ministry to four) and executive payouts and resulting inefficiencies, border patrol costs and trips to Mar-A-Lago, a provincial police force, town halls, referendums...
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I'm just looking at what's laid out in this economic outlook section. Hadn't heard that from Nenshi or what the context of his assertion was. https://www.alberta.ca/economic-outlook
I have been to Cardston a few time. I didn't even know they had a hospital,. But being adjacent to the Blood reserve, You'd think if they built it on the Reserve they could get Fed Money. But its pretty small and close enough to Lethbridge so maybe just a health centre. But 74 mil will get them a pretty good sized facility for the area. Also that is a very heavy separatist area.
Perhaps, but the big flaw in the equalization argument is it is not money collected by the Alberta government sent to Ottawa. The Federal government sets its tax rates which are the same in Alberta as in every other Province. Likewise Alberta sets its own provincial tax rates independently like every other province does and all the money Alberta collects from that stays in Alberta. So equalization does not contribute to the provincial deficit.
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They may "recognize" this, but that doesn't mean it is necessarily so. I feel there is some confusion that just because it is where a number of the head offices are all the economic activity related to them happens there.Get a load of the Mayor to the South....."Speaking to reporters on Friday, Farkas said Calgarians recognize the city is the economic engine of the province."
Nothing like a humble politician....lol...
Calgary mayor voices concern over Alberta budget’s changes to local property taxes
Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas is criticizing the province over property tax changes announced in the 2026 budget.
Speaking of Mayors, it was refreshing to see our current Mayor NOT bellyache and complain about the budget....first time in my lifetime where the Mayor didn't stand on his/her soapbox and bitch about the AB budget....Buddy Farklas to the South didn't get the memo...he/she is really earning his/her mayoral paycheck...lol
