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The UCP government held a barbecue Wednesday on the south lawn of the legislature as a morale booster of sorts to Alberta’s beleaguered pork, beef and canola farmers.

But according to Premier Jason Kenney, the UCP has not been the only political party to do a little cooking at the legislature.

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His NDP predecessors, he claimed, had been cooking the books, so to speak, to deceive the public about the truly sorry state of the province’s finances.

“From what I’ve seen, the NDP massively overstated revenues. They were dishonest with Albertans and they fudged the numbers,” Kenney told a fellow Postmedia columnist for an article published June 7. “They lied to Albertans about the economy and the revenues.”

The comments were perplexing, made without any official figures to back up his claims. As such, journalists were awaiting the 2018-19 year-end results to catch a glimpse of what he may have been talking about.