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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney listens as the 2021 budget is delivered in Edmonton on Feb. 25, 2021. JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press Sometimes, life deals you a hand you never saw coming, leaving you with decisions you hoped you’d never have to make. Alberta Premier Jason Kenney knows what that’s like. While he took the job in 2019, when the province’s finances were already a mess, he had no idea there would soon be a pandemic with which to contend. And while he was undoubtedly aware of oil’s shaky future, he likely didn’t anticipate the extent to which global forces would so rapidly make the oil sands an increasingly risky bet, exerting even more downward pressure on future provincial revenues. Maybe most of all, Mr. Kenney surely never imagined that he might one day be the Premier who ushered in a sales tax in Alberta. But alas, that’s where we are. Mr. Kenney has, in recent days, talked about a potential sales tax in a way I’ve never heard. He has said now would be the wrong time to bring in such a tax, with the economy still suffering the ill effects of the pandemic. He’s also been adamant that […]
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