Deficit as high as $3 billion likely in 2012-13, finance officials say

EDMONTON – Alberta continues to be on track to run a deficit as high as $3 billion in the 2012-13 fiscal year, provincial finance officials said Wednesday.

Speaking to the second-quarter results, Finance Minister Doug Horner said the budget problems revealed in the first-quarter financial update continued during July, August and September.

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