19-Jan-07. Let’s axe horse racing subsidies. Red Deer Advocate, A4.

This editorial is critical of the $190-million in taxpayer subsidies that have been given by the provincial government to Horse Racing Alberta since 2002. It is noted that past Alberta premiers Ralph Klein and Don Getty were both prominent players in decisions made to support horse racing. Liberal MLA Maurice Tougas is now calling on the Convervative government to end the racing subsidy. The author contends that the racing industry is being subsidized for all the wrong reasons and that it was the Conservatives under Klein who vowed to get out of the business of subsidizing businesses.