[2] The National Post said that it fulfilled their "promise of slight austerity" with "cuts to spending programs and the elimination of hundreds of bureaucracy jobs".

[3] The Post said that these and the corporate tax cuts "were the key planks of a four-year plan to bring the budget into balance.

[1]: 12 Program spending decreased for Advanced Education, Agriculture and Forestry, Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, Economic Development, Trade and Tourism, Education, Environment and Parks, Indigenous Relations, Seniors and Housing, Service Alberta, and the Treasury Board and Finance.

"[10] McKinnon, who was Saskatchewan's finance minister, found that "Alberta spends more per person on its public sector, and compensates its teachers, doctors and other workers more generously, than other major provinces.

"[10] The panel recommended that the post-secondary tuition freeze be lifted, and suggested "various measures to slash health-care costs and government-wide program reviews.

"[8] In an October 30 open letter to all members of the Alberta Medical Association, Dr. Christine Molnar, AMA director, said that the "bill effectively gives government the power of pre-approval to cancel any physician services agreement without recourse.

"[8] The bill would also give the government control over where new doctors can work starting in March 2022, in order to provide better service to rural areas.

The protesters—who represented many "sectors", including "core public services like education and health care", that "felt the burden of the provincial budget"—marched while "singing anti-Kenney chants and carrying signs".