UCP Warns of Bad-News Budget, but Denies Responsibility

[shtferbrains]

To many charts that look like this.
Brought 10 million people and never grew the economy.
Not enough money to go around and grew the deficit spending money on stupid liberal BS.
Now we have worst growth in the G7 and are set up to elect them again?

[Grain Farmer]

And why does that matter for healthcare?

You are always SLOW to figure things out.

[shtferbrains]

Never seen this population growth chart before.
Always hear about Europe's problems, but look closely at this.
Canada is by itself at the bottom.
10 million growth all of the EU countries with 210 million pop on top and 30 million in Canada.

Credit Abacus Data

[fjlip]

Right there is the obvious reason for all our problems....

[furrowtickler]

Just plain stupidity

[furrowtickler]

Too bad. Norwegians are the real fiscal conservatives who know how to run a government and manage one time resource revenues.

Albertan's are the province that spends it in a "party now" attitude.

And when the price of oil drops it’s always the federal governments fault!

How many billions of tax payer dollars does Norway throw away at foreign countries on zero ROI social programs?
just curious

[furrowtickler]

Also be interesting to see Norways immigration numbers the past decade.

[chuckChuck]

The Alberta Prosperity Project

The Alberta Prosperity Project crystallizes this paradox. Its leaders speak the language of hardship and urgency — “we see the writing on the wall” — and claim Alberta must seize “freedom, prosperity and sovereignty” from a confederation that no longer shares its “values” and “entrepreneurship.”

Their draft fiscal blueprint, The Value of Freedom ([url]https://albertaprosperityproject.com/education/[/url]), promises that independence would unleash tens of billions in savings, eliminate personal income tax, slash other taxes and transform Alberta into “the most prosperous country in the world.”

Central to this case is the complaint that Albertans pay too much to Ottawa and get too little back in return — especially through equalization and other transfers. In this telling, sovereignty — or at least a radically “restructured” relationship with Canada — is the only way to stop Ottawa from siphoning off the fruits of Alberta’s oil.

Yet this narrative glosses over Alberta’s own choices. During boom years, successive Conservative governments strongly backed by many of the same constituencies now drawn to sovereigntist rhetoric — cut taxes, kept royalties comparatively low and resisted building a large, Norway‑style savings fund.

At the same time, Alberta chronically under-invested in health care, education and social services relative to its fiscal capacity, leaving systems stretched even before the COVID-19 pandemic. When oil prices fell, the result was not simply federal neglect but the exposure of a model that had privileged low taxes and immediate consumption over long‑term resilience.

In other words, the Alberta Prosperity Project is right that Albertans feel squeezed — but its account of who did the squeezing is selective. Sovereigntists who blame Ottawa and equalization for every shortfall ignore the role of provincial policy in creating the ongoing boom-and-bust cycle in Alberta.

[chuckChuck]

So Alberta didn't want all those workers to fill oil industry and other jobs?

Saskatchewan has a unemployment rate of 6% vs Alberta's 6.5% in early 2026. Saskatchewan's population has hardly grown since 2000.

Immigrants dilute the GDP but there is a lag untill GDP grows.

Alberta has the fiscal capacity to invest in healthcare, education and save in a heritage fund but it has chosen low taxes and royalties over a sustainable fiscal plan in a boom and bust economy.

[LEP]

So Alberta didn't want all those workers to fill oil industry and other jobs?

Saskatchewan has a unemployment rate of 6% vs Alberta's 6.5% in early 2026. Saskatchewan's population has hardly grown since 2000.

Immigrants dilute the GDP but there is a lag untill GDP grows.

Alberta has the fiscal capacity to invest in healthcare, education and save in a heritage fund but it has chosen low taxes and royalties over a sustainable fiscal plan in a boom and bust economy.

Wrong again.

Sask January unemployment rate was 5.3%. 2nd lowest in Canada.

YOY employment increased by 4%.

Keep bending the truth. Sound more like Carla everyday.