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Alberta’s 'borrow and lease' school construction program reflects lack of long-term planning

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Alberta government to borrow $6.5 billion to build 90 new and modernized K-12 schools.

Lennie Kaplan: Government should have been more policy creative, rather than accounting creative.

Kaplan: Decision to borrow appears to be a tacit admission of Alberta 's precarious fiscal situation.

He says government has a responsibility to disclose full operating costs associated with building 90 schools.

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