UCP leader labels province’s fiscal plan a ‘Virtual Reality’ budget
Posted Mar 22, 2018 9:49 pm.
Last Updated Mar 22, 2018 9:51 pm.
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United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney is blasting the provincial government’s latest fiscal plan.
Kenney says Finance Minister Joe Ceci was wearing virtual reality goggles when he was looking at revenues.
He says the $96-billion increase in debt in this plan is reckless.
“We will be spending billions on interest payments to bankers instead of funding public services,” said Kenney. “They are projecting $3.7 billion in interest payments, by the end of this reckless fiscal plan.”
Premier Rachel Notley’s government has laid out a plan to balance the books in five years — but to do it, the New Democrats are counting on the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion to be completed.
Kenney says that’s foolish and shows just how desperate and incompetent they are.
Alberta’s 2018 budget includes more spending, an $8.8-billion deficit and a five-year plan to balance the books that are tied to the ups and downs of oil prices and the unpredictability of pipeline politics.
