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If Redford had a conversation with Albertans we would have told her this along time ago.

Premier Alison Redford conceded Friday that Alberta has a spending problem, but she says she is working to curb it.

“Do we have a spending problem?” she asked herself in a Calgary radio interview. “I think we do have a spending problem and that’s one of the reasons we’ve undertaken the results-based budgeting process, which I think will actually have both short-term and long-term impacts.”

Redford also backed off the contention that Alberta has a revenue problem — one she starkly outlined on provincial television last month when she announced the province faced a $6 billion shortfall in resource revenue due to the discounted price of Alberta bitumen.

The premier again stressed she has no plans to introduce a provincial sales tax and added that she would not repeal or amend the Taxpayers Protection Act that makes it against the law to introduce a sales tax without holding a provincial referendum.
“We will not take away the right of Albertans to decide on that issue,” Redford said

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