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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Alternatively, given the UPC has essentially promised large spending cuts this could mean that 'everything else' could be in store for even larger cuts. Health is approaching 40% of the Provincial budget. A promise to maintain this level while also promising to work on the deficit means pretty much everything else might be on the table.
Be careful what you wish for, nothing comes without a cost.
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Technically since health care has an inflation rate above CPI, simply not increasing the budget would serve as a 'cut' of sorts. Plus the public sector very rarely actually 'cuts' staff or 'cuts' wages in a nominal sense (Ralph Klein as an exception). They typically implement a hiring freeze, and cut through natural attrition. No one who has a public sector job will likely ever see a pay stub with a gross pay amount lower, or will walk into work one day, get escorted aside and laid off.
The AUPE narrative would have you believe that the reality that Alberta's private sector has faced the last four years is going to manifest itself in the public sector under Jason Kenney. That's not likely.