Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean has branded the NDP's provincial budget as "punishing" and "dangerous" for families, but he has no plans to provide an alternative fiscal vision for the province.

Alberta's official opposition will not be releasing a shadow budget.

Jean said a specific, line-by-line budget just wouldn't be possible this year in light of the NDP's "totally unrealistic" revenue estimates.

"Without proper revenue numbers, we can't even for a second put together a proper shadow budget. We can't rely on those," said Jean.

Total revenue is forecast to be $41.4 billion in 2016-17, a decline of $1.6 billion (3.6 per cent) from the forecast for 2015-16. This is $8.1 billion (16.4 per cent) lower than revenue was in 2014-15, when oil prices began to collapse. (Government of Alberta)

Two days before budget day, Wildrose finance critic Derek Fildebrandt released a 10-point plan that the Wildrose said could save Alberta $2 billion in one year.

The recommendations include among other things a wage and hiring freeze for all government and public sector employees except frontline health workers and teachers.

Jean said these cuts would save "a few pennies on every dollar spent," and said the measures would not put a single Albertan out of work.

"You have to start somewhere. You can't do it all at once or Alberta families will hurt too much."

Jean said his party could balance the budget by 2019 in a best-case scenario, and he reaffirmed that the Wildrose Party has no intention of introducing a sales tax.