OMG! We’re ruined! Alberta’s fiscal future is down the toilet! Bob Rae, Bob Rae, Bob Rae! Aaarggghhhh! Deficit! Debt! Doom! Pass the smelling salts! Our great-grandchildren who don’t even exist — what will they think of us?
Notley inherited a huge mess and she could either perpetuate the mess or fix it. She has wisely opted to fix it. Let’s not forget that the new Tom Baker centre was promised to Calgarians by successive Tory governments who dithered on it for a decade. Notley is going to build it.
Remember those heady days when Ralph Klein was crowing about slaying the debt? At what cost, fellow Albertans? Did amnesia arrive along with the flu this fall? It was at the cost of schools, health care, infrastructure maintenance and construction, and services to the most vulnerable — children, the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the poor.
All Klein did when he cut back spending and services to slay the debt was to lay the groundwork for the catch-up game the Notley government must now play. Klein wasn’t leaving a debt-free paradise to future generations; he was leaving them a province in which deep cuts to services and spending were going to hamstring them in terms of education, timely health care and crumbling infrastructure.
As Finance Minister Joe Ceci: “We believe Albertans want their services, their hospitals, their schools, their human services protected. To do that … it’s going to take some borrowing …”
Naomi Lakritz: Ralph Klein not NDP Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to blame for budget woes | National Post
Notley inherited a huge mess and she could either perpetuate the mess or fix it. She has wisely opted to fix it. Let’s not forget that the new Tom Baker centre was promised to Calgarians by successive Tory governments who dithered on it for a decade. Notley is going to build it.
Remember those heady days when Ralph Klein was crowing about slaying the debt? At what cost, fellow Albertans? Did amnesia arrive along with the flu this fall? It was at the cost of schools, health care, infrastructure maintenance and construction, and services to the most vulnerable — children, the sick, the elderly, the disabled and the poor.
All Klein did when he cut back spending and services to slay the debt was to lay the groundwork for the catch-up game the Notley government must now play. Klein wasn’t leaving a debt-free paradise to future generations; he was leaving them a province in which deep cuts to services and spending were going to hamstring them in terms of education, timely health care and crumbling infrastructure.
As Finance Minister Joe Ceci: “We believe Albertans want their services, their hospitals, their schools, their human services protected. To do that … it’s going to take some borrowing …”
Naomi Lakritz: Ralph Klein not NDP Alberta Premier Rachel Notley to blame for budget woes | National Post
