What has changed under Notley is a $10 billion dollar annual deficit, spent on paving and sidewalk replacements throughout the province. That will have to be paid for through personal taxes, not royalty windfalls.

What has changed is an Alberta now on the permanent defensive about its primary industry, after issuing a string of grovelling apologies to any and all anti-Alberta, anti-oil and gas industry fanatics, without a single thing to show for it in exchange.

And for the record, Alberta private enterprise, led by the oil and gas industry itself, has managed to scrape and claw its way back to tenuous profitability, using brutal cost cutting measures, without a single government nickel, federal or provincial. So as for your wishful thinking about things "getting worse" for Albertans, you'll just have to join the long line of disappointed anti-Alberta schadenfreuders who infest these boards.