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Calling him “insulting” and “condescending,” Alberta’s opposition leaders are demanding Premier Jim Prentice apologize to Albertans for saying they are to blame for the province’s current financial mess.

On Wednesday, Prentice told a CBC radio program that Albertans need only “look in the mirror” to understand why the province is grappling with a serious budget shortfall this year.

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“In terms of who is responsible, we all need only look in the mirror, right. Basically all of us have had the best of everything and have not had to pay for what it costs,” Prentice said.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley called his comments “profoundly insulting.”

“I think that if Albertans were to look in the mirror, here’s what they’d see: They’d see people that are trying desperately and harder and harder every day to make ends meet,” she said Thursday.