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Originally Posted by Slava
Tough call though. The sustainability fund was a "rainy day" kind of account. Its not easy to dispute that we did indeed have a rainy day here! The issue is that with the decreased tax revenue that rainy day was exacerbated.
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Really? The budget forecasted revenue from non renewable resources of 13.4 billion dollars. That would be the second highest amount of non renewable resource revenue in Alberta's history.
Is it your position that "Slightly less than the most money we've ever collected, and more than the second best year in Alberta's history" qualifies as a rainy day?
Source: Page 52 of this report
http://www.finance.alberta.ca/public...an-revenue.pdf