CBC.ca | Alberta budget forecast stuck on the oil roller-coaster CBC.ca There are no plans to balance outside of oil prices," said Ron Kneebone, an economist with the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary. "The only way out of it is to hope that oil prices come back to the 80, 90-dollar level, which no one ... Alberta digs deeper into deficit with budget that bets on oil rebound, pipelines NDP budget leans heavily on oil and gas recovery Budget bets on oil for economic recovery, predicts $71.1 billion debt by 2020 |