Markyeg
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Gotta throw a couple of scraps to the UCP base.
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Gotta throw a couple of scraps to the UCP base.
Out of Towner
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The twinning may coincide with the initiative to develop more tourism in the province. There would be a route from the Rockies terminating in Calgary, Red Deer, and Edmonton. At the same time, it's MAGA country so it makes one wonder if that's the reason behind the twinning.
BASE
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half the highway between Red Deer and RMH is already divided so presumably it was always intended to continue. Services are being maintained which is great but crazy seeing such a deficit with what seems like not a ton of major projects going on (although decent amount of LRT ongoing I guess).
TAS
Senior Member
Of the 30 tax or fee increases in this budget, the largest is the one that will show up on our municipal property tax bill - even though many people don't really recognize it as coming from the province. About 25% of city property tax bill is provincial education taxes that actually don't go specifically to education spending - it goes to general revenues. That tax is increasing 4.0
to 4.5%
to 4.5%
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The_Cat
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I wonder if Danielle Smith will call a snap election, given the budget.
kcantor
Senior Member
$23.9 billion in forecasted deficits over the next three years!
Out of Towner
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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.
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Out of Towner
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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.
ADob
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kcantor
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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...
The worst part is this is off the top of my head and likely far from comprehensive.
TAS
Senior Member
According to Nenshi, the UCP have budgeted for $66 per WTI barrel and not $60 which is what industry analysts suggested oil will be.
So next year's deficit could be higher than already forecasted.
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BASE
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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
TAS
Senior Member
Not sure where he came up with his number but he used the $66 figure twice - yesterday in his statements after budget and this morning on Ryan Jespersen.
Airboy
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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.