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Old 03-15-2009, 10:05 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post
Clearly it would be best to plan and have shovel-ready projects ready to go for times like these with some cash in the bank to begin with. There was a party in Alberta hounding the PC's to put some money away over the last boom, and it wasn't the WRA!
HUH? It has been embedded in our policies since our inception in 2002.

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A Wildrose Alliance Government will institute a policy of depositing a set percentage of government natural resource income each year into the Heritage Savings and Trust Fund.


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The real reason that the government is in deficit here is basically a complete and utter lack of foresight. Nothing was put away for even an overcast day, let alone a rainy one. The price of oil was rising and there was no concern for the day when that would stop.

Well that we can agree on.
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