OP-ED: Smith must be the Iron Lady and say NO to wasteful spending

Canadian Taxpayer Federation Alberta Director Kris Sims on why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith needs to enforce fiscal discipline

By Kris Sims

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is a great admirer of the late great premier Ralph Klein.

If Smith wants to defeat the debt and hold that “PAID IN FULL” sign over her own head some day, she needs to cut spending and pay down the province’s debt.

She must take a page out of the late great prime minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher’s…