Alberta budget 2018: NDP chops maintenance spending by nearly $1 billion

The Alberta government will spend nearly $1 billion less than planned over the next three years on fixing hospitals, post-secondary institutions, roads, bridges and other public infrastructure.
Budget documents released Thursday show the province still plans to spend $2.7 billion on its capital maintenance and renewal program by 2020-21, but that’s down $969 million from what the NDP government promised. That’s a decline of more than 25 per cent.
“We certainly see a reduction t