Graham Thomson: NDP's $96 billion long-term debt stings

Here is the Alberta government’s new budget boiled down to one four-letter word: Ouch.
Or expressed as a number: $96 billion.
You won’t actually find that number in the budget documents released Thursday but that’s the number everybody was talking about.
It is the amount of debt the province will have accumulated by 2023, the year the government expects to finally balance the budget.
Think of it this way: the good news is the NDP government has finally unveiled its plan to grad