Stephen Beirnes, a journeyman electrician in
Edmonton, said the changes would have ripples in the construction and
energy industries.

“If Kenney gets his way, the owners of the
companies are going to have more rights than the workers and it is going
to put the workers in a hard spot where, even if they are working the
overtime, they might not be getting the compensation that they should
be,” Beirnes said.

Alberta’s business tax rate stands at 12 per cent of corporate income. Kenney would slash it by a third, to just eight per cent, over a four-year period.

The revenues lost soon would be made up, the UCP leader declared, through increased economic activity. In effect, Kenney’s corporate tax cuts would ‘pay for themselves.’

That optimistic messaging echoes the failed fiscal policies introduced by former British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell and his BC Liberal government at the beginning of the new millennium. #abpoli #ableg #abvote #UCP