WATCH ABOVE: Premier Rachel Notley addresses the media in Edmonton Thursday, speaking about the spring sitting of the Alberta Legislature.
EDMONTON – Alberta’s new NDP government has wrapped up its historic first session in the legislature.
Premier Rachel Notley’s team passed legislation to ban corporate and union donations to political parties during the two-week session.
It also hiked taxes on large corporations and the wealthy and spent more than half a billion dollars to fund social programs, health, and education.
But Wildrose leader Brian Jean says the session also revealed the New Democrats as profligate spenders, who see taxes and spending as a default method to cure social and economic problems.
Liberal Leader David Swann says the session was a honeymoon phase and things will likely change when the government brings in a budget in October.
Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark says that as Notley’s government transforms the province, he hopes it will look at cost efficiencies as much as extra spending.
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