Editorial: Budget a leap of faith

Remember when the Alberta government planned its yearly budgets based entirely on the projected price of a barrel of oil, a forecast considered to be dubious at best?
Who could have known we might look back on those budgets as the good, old days of grounded fiscal planning, now that the province is banking its record $56.2-billion blueprint on a sweeping set of even shakier assumptions.
To start, Finance Minister Joe Ceci is relying heavily on the Trans Mountain pipeline to bring Alberta’s