Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
What kind of spending is accounting for the big increase? The big things I can think of are the Cancer Centre, and the Ring Road, and the Ft McMurray twinning project, but I would think all of those would go ahead no matter who is in charge.
|
I haven't verified but I don't think those things are even included in the deficit figure. They don't count infrastructure spending anymore, now it's called "investment".
Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
Not defending NDP in any way, I'm just curious what parts of their spending are making it so bad, and what could reasonably be cut? The Wild Rose always says we have a spending problem, but it looks a lot more like a revenue problem. Excess health spending is a legacy of the PC's that there isn't really a quick fix for.
|
They need to tackle public service costs but they have already said that they won't touch that at all.