(Source: Opinion column by Blake Shaffer published by the CBC on September 1, 2020. Mr. Shaffer is an assistant professor of economics and public policy at the University of Calgary.)
CALGARY, Alberta — Last week’s Alberta fiscal update was filled with some large and scary numbers. Chief among them was $24 billion (this year’s projected deficit) and $100 billion (Alberta’s projected debt, not long ago non-existent). But buried among these headline numbers was a much smaller one that deserves far more scrutiny than it has received: $2.1 billion.
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