Opinion: Alberta needs to bring back Ralph Klein’s fiscal rules

2026-03-13 - 10:13

Alberta’s recent budget demonstrated the complete inability of the Smith government’s legislated fiscal framework — the Sustainable Fiscal Planning and Reporting Act, which it passed in spring 2023 — to prevent nearly $24 billion in accumulated budget deficits over the next three years or the ballooning of the province’s debt to over $137 billion by 2029. Read More