The finances were drained listening to the left who demanded building Alberta's world class highways, hospitals, education facilities and paying the highest public sector wages in Canada.

It is argued that all these highways, hospitals, and schools were needed at the time with the expected population boom and maybe they will be justified once oil recovers but there will always be an anti-business tone in Alberta until the NDP are voted out. 

If there was a fundemental fault of the Alberta PC's it was becoming too much like Liberals once Klein paid off the debt.