It's a way to set up preconditions for a better Alberta. Different party, same speechWhen the royalty roller-coaster goes up, money floods into the treasury and politicians promise more spending with lower taxes. Every effort to impose a "fiscal rule" — that 30 per cent of oil and gas revenues must be socked away — has failed. We should pay people directlyOil and gas revenues now account for less than 10 per cent of the provincial revenue. Some years those cheques are big and sometimes they're small, depending on the health of the state's resource revenues.

Source: CBC News March 17, 2018 10:52 UTC