FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EDMONTON, AB (February 9, 2010): Wildrose Alliance Leader Danielle Smith expressed complete shock at the PC government's 2010 provincial budget and challenged the government to table a plan to eliminate Alberta's true deficit of $7.5 billion. At the same time, Smith challenged some of the government's priorities and its reliance on higher energy revenues to reduce the deficit.
"The PC government's 'cross your fingers and hope for the best' approach to budgeting continues to let Albertans down," said Smith. "We support efforts to lower the deficit but we could still be in a surplus position if this government had shown real leadership, actually listened to experts and limited their past spending."
"The Stelmach government has made such a mess of things and instead of getting costs under control, they have done nothing with this budget," said Smith.
The Wildrose Alliance will present and discuss its balanced budget initiative in the Legislature Press Room at 1:00 P.M. on Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
The Wildrose Alliance was formed in January 2008 and has three elected Members of the Legislature.
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For further information or to arrange an interview, media are invited to contact the Wildrose Communications team:
