Alberta wasn't debt free. Alberta was good at hiding its debt acorns in the wilderness. It was hidden in an infrastructure deficit the Heavy Construction Assocation estimated as high as $16 billion. In the fewest staffed hospital beds per capita in the country... #ableg
..hidden in closed hospital wings, and outside the province with the doctors and nurses who left. In the red on the financial statements of non-profits who were slammed with demand following Ralph's social service cuts... #ableg
... it's in waitlists that hold the names of thousands of people waiting for access to affordable and social housing. In the waitlists for disability services, seniors housing, supported living... #ableg
...Alberta's debt is out there in school portables that became permanent solutions. And in a University of Alberta campus with a billion dollars of deferred maintenance to deal with. #ableg
We're still digging our way up from the Klein years. His ideological agenda imposed at a time when his making a scene at AUMA and AAMDC events wouldn't end up on Instagram. Before blogs, social media and the internet would have made the impact of his agenda... #ableg
...too known, too obvious, and too politically untenable to carry out. The same reason why the #ucp won't propose their own fiscal plan. #ableg
...And anyone whose fiscal plan doesn't include a PST, is feeding you powdered unicorn horn. Alberta will never return to balance without one. #ableg
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