When the cash is not rolling in from resource royalty revenue, spending must be reduced accordingly. That is something Comrade Notley refuses to do and one of many reasons she will be kicked to the curb in the next election. 

The big spending PC were not Conservative at all. They were bright red Liberals who came to power through the bizarre leadership selection process of the Alberta PCs.  That in turn drove the real conservatives to form the Wildrose Party. 

The leadership selection process has been corrected, the Liberals are being purged from the party, and the Wildrose and true PCs are ending their family feud.  The NDP will be ousted from power in Alberta for a generation. 

Good riddance to bad garbage.