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EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition Wildrose party is urging Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP not launch its new era Monday by spending billions of dollars with little explanation.

The first session of the legislature under Notley’s team will run for the next couple of weeks and focus on an interim supply bill to keep the money taps flowing in Alberta until the NDP can bring in a full budget in the fall.

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Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt said the bill will be, in effect, a “mini-budget” to cover about half-a-year’s payments for a budget already well over $40 billion in spending.

“You can’t be pulling this money from thin air,” said Fildebrandt.

“We need a big picture of the finances with the details to see if the numbers actually add up.”

The original budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year was introduced, but never passed, by the former Progressive Conservative government before the Tories were defeated in the May 5 election.