The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is calling on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to form a smaller cabinet to demonstrate fiscal responsibility after her United Conservative Party (UCP) government won re-election on May 29.
In a June 1 news release, Kris Sims, Alberta director of the CTF, suggests that if Smith selects a smaller cabinet, she will “make her government more efficient and save taxpayers’ money.”
In the pre-election legislature, the UCP government had 25 cabinet ministers each earning $181,404 per year.
The CTF, a non-partisan organization that acts as a watchdog on government spending, notes that the UCP had a larger cabinet than former premier Rachel Notley’s 22 cabinet members at the time she lost the 2019 election….