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Alberta Legislature

Alberta legislature: Is debt the destroyer of worlds, a "trap" that "has proven the death of countless dreams" as Alison Redford told the legislature in her maiden speech as premier in October 2011?, according to CTV. Or is it, as Redford told an audience in Medicine Hat last October, the only salvation for a province blessed and burdened with hundreds of thousands of newcomers and - Alberta politicians return to work Monday at the legislature to resume what is becoming an annual political-existential debate over the definition of debt. Is it a "parochial" issue when set against the visionary quest to build a dynamic province, as Redford told reporters last March, a day before her government announced it was taking on $17 billion in debt? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.