[CaptainCrunch]

I think the one big thing that the UCP probably wouldn't have done is bloated the public sector payroll to hide the poor job market in Alberta.


Without them adding 10's of thousands of people since their election I think the number was about a 20% increase in the size of the provinces payroll.


That's operating budget issues, we have had to borrow more and more money just to turn on the lights in the morning. This isn't infrastructure additions, or private job creation efforts.


Its blatantly rigging the stats so they can claim that the provincial job losses aren't as bad as they are when you look at global statistics. And realistically it would be like you paying your employees on the company credit card, in the long term its an unaffordable solution.


At some point one of the major sources of the deficit which is operational is going to have to be addressed. We simply can't afford to keep burning money in the barrel of operational budget as eventually one of our biggest social programs will be interest servicing.


I'm certainly not advocating layoffs of nurses or teachers, or front line workers, but at some point the way that the government does its day to day business and the bureaucracy that the NDP has created is going to have to be looked at.