WATCH ABOVE: The NDP government has been tasked to build a capital plan with less money in the bank. As provincial affairs reporter Tom Vernon explains, the premier has enlisted some high profile help.
EDMONTON – The Alberta government is bringing in a former Bank of Canada governor to help write a plan for building infrastructure.
Premier Rachel Notley says David Dodge will review Alberta’s capital plan to advise on the best level of spending and building over the next four years.
Notley says she also will ask Dodge how much deficit financing, if any, should be used to pay for it.
Notley says her government won’t abandon capital spending and school consturction plans launched under the old Progressive Conservative government in the meantime.
Dodge will deliver his report to Infrastructure Minister Brain Mason, who will use it to help craft the capital spending part of the budget.
That budget will be tabled in October.
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