There’s paying attention, and then there’s paying for attention. The latter has become quite an Albertan habit.
Premier Danielle Smith has picked up the habit that Ralph Klein started in the early 1990s and delivered her second paid-time premier’s televised addresses Wednesday — though all the other premiers in between these two former broadcasters have also done so, including Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney.
Smith used her speech to set the tables for a budget that restrains spending in uncertain economic times, just like UCP predecessorKenney before her. But while he rooted his fiscal posture with a kind-of “I need to fix
