What Jason Kenney’s Budget Buzzwords Really Mean | The Tyee
My Alberta colleagues got their wakeup call in the 1990s, when Conservative premier Ralph Klein slashed the provincial budget by 20 per cent.
With the new Jason Kenney budget, it looks as if he’s paying homage to both Klein and B.C.’s budget-slashing Socred premier Bill Bennett.
Or maybe going even farther. In the 1980s, we were in the midst of a full-blown recession, complete with 20-per-cent mortgage rates, which gave Bennett a pretext for cutting government spending. (Never mind that government spending was exactly what was needed to emerge from a recession.)