Opinion: Alberta needs a stable fiscal plan — and industry must pay for cleanup

Alberta’s biggest economic risk today isn’t hostility to energy, climate policy or even short-term oil price swings. It’s fiscal instability — budgets that work only when oil prices co-operate, and fall apart when they don’t. That instability is no longer hypothetical. Alberta’s current $6.4-billion deficit, and the projected $9- to $10-billion shortfall by 2026–27, are […]


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