The part that gets my anger up is how the media has fallen for the PC spin on the current fiscal situation in this province. All we hear is "Alberta needs a tough budget because of collapsed oil prices". No, reality is the province is in financial trouble from many years of gross mismanagement by the PC party. The Heritage Trust Fund was supposed to be our rainy day fund for downturn times like these. It was raped and pillaged by the party since Klein days. Prentice has managed to successfully to deflect this blame away from the party. If he really was looking to the future and changing the way the PC party manages taxes and resource revenue, I might get behind him. I have not been sold on that yet and I don't trust him a bit. Remember, he appointed Stephen Mandel to the biggest ministry, Health Care. Mandel, in my mind, is the biggest criminal in Alberta today.
I am surprised that they left corporate taxes and royalties completely off the table. Even for political optics, they should have thrown out a bone on that front. That will piss off the working Joe. All of the burdon is on the average working Albertan. There is no opposition, so it is not political suicide. The opposition imploded, they were/are morons. The PC's can govern as they please. I doubt we will see a snap election call., depends if Prentice feels oil prices will recover or not in the next year.
