Now would actually be the perfect time to fix the whole situation going forward. Clean up the government bloat drastically (Klein style) and get the budget to with a few billion without any resource revenues. Take on the unions now while the money isn't there, it's easier now than it will be later. Funnel all resource revenues into the Heritage Fund and pass legislation that 80% of the Heritage Fund's investment profits are put toward infrastructure spending/upgrades, not operating costs, 20% reinvested. If we had done that in the late 90's we would be in a lot better position today.
Do all of that first and then you can easily sell a PST but the belt tightening and cleaning up of the bloat needs to come first.
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