Alberta premier says committee to review all government spending [Video]

The Alberta government is creating a productivity review cabinet committee that will assess spending in every government program, Premier Danielle Smith said at two party events over the weekend.

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At a UCP constituency fundraiser in Westlock on Aug. 16, Smith said the committee will perform a program-by-program review with the aim of “finding savings so that we can deliver on that $760 per taxpayer personal income tax cut.” The committee is composed of the premier, Finance Minister Nate Horner, Technology and Innovation Minister Nate Glubish, three treasury board members, and three private members, Smith said.

“We’re going to be starting going through, looking at every single program in every single department to see if there are ways that we can remove wasteful spending, move spending from low-priority areas to high-priority areas, find ways that we …