March 11th, 2020 - Alberta Budget, Alberta Politics
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OPINION / Is Alberta’s new fiscal crisis really ‘uncharted territory’?
“The province is facing a fiscal crisis because of a sudden drop in the price of oil. Isn’t this territory as familiar as the back of our hands? Oh, the causes might be new — the COVID-19 virus playing havoc with stock markets as a spat between Russia and Saudi Arabia wreaks chaos with oil prices — but the territory looks sickeningly familiar.”