Alberta NDP promises balanced budget later than UCP, but says UCP math is wrong
EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley promised to balance the province’s budget by 2023-24 as she unveiled her party’s election platform Sunday, while also pledging to expand $25 per day child care, build long-term care beds for seniors and construct new schools.
Notley’s date for balancing the books is a year later than what’s promised by her principal rival, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, who released his platform a day earlier.
But Notley said Kenney’s math doesn’t add up, noting the UCP plan saves money by scrapping a government-supported program to move oil by rail until new pipelines are built, but then doesn’t record the revenue the province would have earned from that oil.