Alberta Royalty Review Panel Releases Report

I was told by a former senior Alberta civil servant, now out of government, that the province is $100. billion in the hole with falling apart infrastructure and loss of services and that the claimed "great wealth" is by cooking the books.

Alberta is an ecological and health disaster waiting to happen, when the rest of the country and the world will have to pick up the real costs.

Ed Deak,

It's definitely a lot more than $100 million. The Mayor of the Wood Buffalo Municipality, in her presentation to the panel, said her own municipality (which contains Ft McMurray) needs $800 million to update their infrastructure. That's basic stuff like roads, water, sewers etc, not Bugatti dealerships. & that's just to support the people that are there right now, in one municipality. Some other people who made presentations to the panel also said the highway between Calgary & Edmonton is disintegrating. The government's Radke report (which everybody in Alberta should read thoroughly) also said there's an extremely severe need for planning from the government in order to deal with the growth that has taken place. The amount the province needs is probably a lot more than a billion, not $100 million. That's the mess that everyone's hero Ralph Klein has left. Apparently he thought it was more important to "use cowboy tactics" to keep easterners out of Alberta than to make sure people in his province could drive 2 miles in less than 30mins.

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whoops I misread $100 billion :p

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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va