Graham Thomson: Alberta $33 billion in debt with no clear plan to balance the books

The Alberta government is on track to balance the provincial budget — in six years … maybe.
That’s as definitive as Finance Minister Joe Ceci would get during a news conference Thursday when he released the government’s “annual report” containing the final audited figures for last year’s provincial budget.
Among those figures: a record $10.8-billion deficit; and the provincial government now $33 billion in debt.
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