[Senator Clay Davis]

Two things:

1) I don't think anyone has said spending cuts alone can't fix the budget issues. It's that if you choose spending cuts alone people need to be prepared for massive service cuts, which we all know everyone will whine about.

2) The article doesn't say 47,000; the verbatim line is "In just the last year, Alberta added tens of thousands of public-sector workers to the payroll". And since it's an opinion piece, probably more hyperbole than fact.