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All options, including a provincial sales tax, are on the table for Alberta Party Leader Greg Clark.

Talking of a PST in Alberta might be considered political suicide by some, but Clark said Monday he’s willing to consider anything to get the province’s coffers back in the black.

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Implementing a PST can’t be the only fiscal remedy, Clark said — it would be part of an overall strategy, including capping annual non-renewable resource revenues at $3 billion, constraining spending by one per cent each year over four years, and making the carbon tax revenue neutral.

Plus, he said, he doesn’t trust the NDP with a PST, arguing the governing party is “unwilling and unable to constrain government spending.”

“For far too long, we’ve relied on non-renewable resource revenue as our saviour, and this government is doing the same thing,” Clark said.

“(Finance Minister) Joe Ceci stood on this exact same platform last week talking about … (how) black oily shoots were going to be the saviour for Alberta, but that’s what got us into this mess in the first place.”