Raising taxes in Alberta is already hard. Danielle Smith will make it (almost) impossible

October 30th, 2023 - Alberta Politics, Premier Danielle Smith

Raising taxes in Alberta is already hard. Danielle Smith will make it (almost) impossible

Alberta Taxpayer Protection Amendment Act limits ability to deal with the province’s fiscal rollercoaster ride of volatile oil and natural gas prices.

About Graham

Graham Thomson is an Edmonton-based political commentator.

He is best known as a writer for the Edmonton Journal where he spent 25 years, almost all of them helping readers make sense of Alberta politics. Graham quit The Journal in September of 2018. But he did not quit the news media.

He is still writing about politics, still analyzing, still opining, still thanking politicians for providing so much humour.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Graham has two daughters, two sons-in-law, three grandchildren, and one Wheaten Terrier.