Mounties and Finance Minister Doug Horner

Finance Minister Doug Horner: The province will run a consolidated surplus of $1.1 billion, the first surplus in six years, in the 2014-15 fiscal year, Finance Minister Doug Horner said Thursday, according to Huffington Post. There is money for 40 more Mounties, 50 news schools and 2,000 new spaces for post-secondary students and Alberta is back in the black when it comes to day-to-day spending, but the good times are being underwritten with billions of dollars in debt, which is now at $14 billion and rising. There will be no new taxes and no tax increases, and Alberta will retain its status as Canada's only province without a sales tax. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.