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Premier Notley says that under a plan revealed by the UCP, a spending freeze proposed by Jason Kenney would mean that no new teachers would be hired until the budget is balanced.

She argued that 15,000 new students enter the school system in Alberta each year and under the UCP proposal, those students would have to squeeze into existing classrooms with current staffing levels.

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Notley also said in a media scrum at the Fantasyland Hotel in Edmonton today that the NDP would stay the course on its 12-per-cent corporate tax rate if re-elected.