Global News plans to livestream Finance Minister Travis Toews’ budget speech when it begins. You can view the livestream in this post.
Buoyed by revenues generated through the energy sector, Alberta’s finance minister is scheduled to unveil his last budget before voters head to the polls for a spring election.Alberta’s 2023 budget expected to be overflowing with surplus of petrodollars During a mid-year forecast in the fall, Finance Minister Travis Toews revealed Alberta expects to finish the fiscal year at the end of March with a $12.3-billion surplus on the strength of high oil prices and oilsands operations reaching the higher post-payout stage of production.With less than three months until the May 29 election, Alberta’s UCP government has been teasing what citizens can expect from the 2023 budget through a series of spending announcements in recent days and weeks.
Last month, Toews said the government’s 2023 budget would be delivered on Feb. 28, the first day of the spring legislature sitting. He said the document will emphasize health-care investments and also focus on school enrolment growth.
Don't know if it will affect it or not but hopefully something with ambulance wait times and Hospital wait times.
Paying down some of the $80B in debt incurred by prior NDP and PC governments - it’s hard to pay for new things when your money is going towards paying interest.
Add dress? Albertans were stripped.
Well I can tell you this it wasn't the UCP dividing the bird of Fish and Game to make a new agency and waste taxpayers money, but I guess that's what the government's good for saying they won't do something then they do it.
Anything at all that helps the middle income single taxpayers who have been overlooked for years.