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Originally Posted by 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.
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I think the 47,000 comes from an Ezra Levant article. I haven't been able to find the statscan information to corroborate it though so if anyone has it I'd love to see it.
If they did increase the public service by 12% last year (which is the claim of 47,000) then they are actually genius because they did it by increasing costs by only 2% (operating costs from 2015 to 2016). Seems like a 10% win to me! 
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