The United Conservative Party government played its cards early this year, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signalling last week that a budget was coming that would emphasize spending restraint with looming lower resource revenues along with various other economic uncertainties.
That came to pass Thursday with the first budget tabled under Finance Minister Nate Horner.
The average Albertan likely doesn’t have time to sift through hundreds of pages of financial tables, spending forecasts and departmental estimates.
But they likely do have an interest in a simple question: how might this budget affect my pocketbook? We have some answers.
Income cut tax delay
Let’s swerve and
