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Sorry, my mistake on the funding issue. They have to cut their budget by 20% over the next 4 years because the government isn't contributing enough. It still comes down to Klein not giving enough of that surplus to education.
As to two-tiered health care, the only reason it's being offered is they know that no one will accept full on privatized health care at this point. Given the chance, we'd be using HMOs and having health care considered a commodity by everyone.
Defending Klein by using oil profits as a reason is completely weird to me. The Lougheed government was the one that allowed Alberta to make good use of its oil reserves, not Klein. Klein just happened to come into power during a period of economic boom when all of the basic economic infrastructure was in place. They're both conservative governments, but VERY different conservative governments.
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