LETHBRIDGE — Alberta’s finance minister says it will be at least three years before the government considers funding for a police training centre.
Speaking in Lethbridge, Ted Morton said the funding commitment for a police college in Fort Macleod was made at a time when the province was running billion-dollar surpluses.
But now the province has to cope with billion-dollar deficits.
Morton says Albertans expect the province to prioritize its spending.
The minister says the training centre is still a good idea, but money for health care, programs for seniors and the severely handicapped is more necessary.
Officials in the community of roughly 3,000 people say they feel betrayed as the government continues to renege on promises it made as far back as 2006 to build a police college.