The UCP government’s four-year mandate could include performance-based education funding, legislated public service salaries, project costs downloaded onto municipalities and private services in health care, if it adopts a host of recommendations contained in a government-ordered report unveiled Tuesday.
Finance Minister Travis Toews wouldn’t say how many of the recommendations his government will follow, but there’s no doubt the MacKinnon panel report will guide the UCP government over its four-year term.
“We’ll be putting a lot of stock into these recommendations, there’s no doubt about it,” Toews said.
Twenty-six recommendations jammed the 82-page report authored by the MacKinnon panel — a group hand-picked by the UCP to examine Alberta government spending. It was headed by former Saskatchewan finance minister Janice MacKinnon.
The report came complete with a 150-page fiscal analysis by accounting giant KPMG and issued a stark warning: Operating expenses must be cut by at least $600 million to have any hope of balancing the budget by 2022-23.
No sector of government spending was sacred in the review, with sweeping reforms suggested in health, education, the public service, capital spending and how the government delivers programs to its citizens.
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See Also:
(1) Jason Kenney’s convenient blueprint to fix half of Alberta’s fiscal house
(2) MacKinnon panel urges legislated salaries for public sector workers, higher tuitions
(3) Report shows Alberta in for deep cuts and big fights
(4) The MacKinnon report is a serious proposal to fix Alberta’s real problems
(5) ‘An attack on public education’: Critics blast MacKinnon report’s findings on education funding
(6) It’s time to tell Albertans the truth and start cutting the waste
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