Its definitely not good news, but lets say the Wildrose had won. Would the budget be in much better shape because while we would've held the line on spending or made some cuts, but they wouldn't have increased taxes either. In other words spending down from where we are and revenue down as well. So I don't know (and no one does), but it could well be a net zero kind of thing. I honestly don't think that any party could've balanced the budget at this point without some severe pain for all Albertans.
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