Wildfires helped swell deficit by $500MNotley said without the Fort McMurray wildfire in May her government's budget projections would have been "in place." "Last fiscal year, 46 per cent of every revenue dollar earned by the province was poured into health care spending," the conference board said in a report published in June. "The rate at which health-care costs increase in Alberta does need to go down," Notley said. "Across the country, health care increases need to go down. The Alberta government has taken steps to curb the growth in health care costs, with spending set to grow at an average annual pace of 2.4 per cent over the next three years.

Source: CBC News August 26, 2016 23:18 UTC