As you might expect, the Wildrose opposition isn't very happy with yesterday's Alberta budget.

Highwood MLA Wayne Anderson says the NDP government is raising taxes with a lot of that money going to government sector compensation.

"They 've formed a new ministry of economic development, with no mandate from the people, they didn't run on that, but here they're going to spend almost $300-million on this new economic and trade ministry, when they talk about they're going to diversify the economy, but there's nothing specific in it," Anderson says. "So for me that's not a smart investment, that's not investing in infrastructure, that's not investing in the future."

He says the government's jobs program, where it provides up to 5-thousand dollars for each new job created, won't do much to bring employees back to companies that had to lay them off.

Anderson is also worried about a $125 million investment in the Alberta Enterprise Corporation. He says socialists running a venture capital company makes him nervous because they don't know how. He says they aren't business people and claims it's just creating jobs for union people and bureaucrats.

He says the government can't diversify the province's economy if they provide an unstable environment for people to invest in.

"We are an oil and gas province, we know that, our reserves are, I think, the third most in the world, but this premier has publicly stated that she refuses to ship unprocessed bitumen, she prefers to refine it here, she wants to create jobs here" he says. "But it takes 20 years to build a refinery and billions of dollars in investment."