01-02-2018 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com

Thursday's letters: Balanced approach is real Alberta Advantage

As the new Conservative leader, Jason Kenney promises to “restore the Alberta Advantage,” It is a good time to clarify this popular concept.
It is a mistake to think of Alberta’s Advantage as deriving simply from lower or flatter Tory taxes —after all, those tax rates in the past came at the expense of both social spending and the Heritage Trust Fund. It is more accurate to say that the Alberta Advantage derives from oil revenues, and that the political issue is how
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