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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
The size of government has nothing to do with fiscal conservatism. That whole "size of government" has more to do with the belief that less beauracracy = more liberty and freedom. Fiscal conservatism, at least to me, is maximizing the effciency of every tax payer dollar spent, in essence doing more with less.
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The size of the government has a lot to do with fiscal restraint. Most of the money that the province spends goes to salaries. More employees means more salaries. The government has become very top heave in the last decade or so. Starting at the very top, Alberta has too many bosses. Why is Ontario able to function with 20 more MPP's than us when they have 4 times the population and almost double the land area? It isn't just the MLA's, that is just where it starts.