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November 28, 2014 9:00AM

Prentice’s Path: Getty or Klein?
Charles Lammam, Jason Clemens
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Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is in the midst of formulating his first budget and the fiscal path of the province while watching oil prices continue to decline.

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October 4, 2014 6:00AM

Want smarter government? Focus it
Mark Milke
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Murray Smith, a former Alberta cabinet minister in the Ralph Klein government, the one that privatized government liquor stores and licence registries in 1993, once told me about a side benefit of such divestments (and I paraphrase): fewer distractions, which led to more focused government.

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benefits of privatization, government spending, privatization, size of government, crown corporations, jim prentice, alberta, electricity rates, electricity costs, power prices, energy, government sector pensions, government defined benefit pensions, government pensions