Column: Alberta’s business tax cut is part of the solution, not the problem – Franco Terrazzano

Alberta is dealing with two big problems: we need to get people back to work and we need our provincial government to stop overcharging Albertans by $10 billion a year. There’s plenty of evidence from our own backyard that shows Alberta’s business tax cut will be part of the solution, not the problem.

In 2001, the Alberta government began reducing its business tax rate from 15.5 per cent to 10 per cent in 2006. Alberta’s average yearly real GDP growth rate between 2001 and 2014 was