Premier Jason Kenney -- The Canadian Press

By The Canadian Press

Alberta budget Oct. 24; Premier says will have tough touches to fight deficit

Sep 23, 2019 | 12:12 PM

EDMONTON –– Premier Jason Kenney says the Alberta budget is to be delivered in just over a month.

Kenney says it will be released Oct. 24 and include tough choices to get Alberta’s multibillion-dollar budget deficit back in balance.

He says he will follow through on promises not to reduce funding for health care and education.

The premier has already said the budget will follow the lead of a recent report from a government-appointed panel that urges a rethink of spending to prevent rising debt payments.

He says the budget will not be increasing taxes, because further hikes are not the answer when Alberta has the highest per capita public spending.

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The budget is to come down three days after the federal election, but Kenney says that was not done to take a potentially controversial issue off the table for federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer.