Notley: mandate from voters would be sought before bringing in PST

STONY PLAIN – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wouldn’t bring in a provincial sales tax without seeking a mandate from voters.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said this week his government is considering an increase to consumption taxes as it wrestles with a budget deficit brought on by low resource prices.

Alberta has some of the same budgetary problems, but Notley says a sales tax is not something that can be pulled out of a back pocket without first campaigning on it.

She says her party campaigned on raising corporate taxes and income taxes on the wealthy and that’s what it did.