Until we tamp down the highest public service (civil servants, teachers, health professionals, university admins) salary/pension levels in the country, no government should even think about a PST. We had an expenditure problem under the PCs and it's only worse now (considerably worse, given a slew of new taxes, higher fees, and not ONE penny cut from one sunshine list public servant). We are borrowing $10 billion/year to (1) pay exorbitant public service salaries and (2) to redistribute some of that borrowed money to lower income folks so they won't actually complain about (1). Do I want the Wildrose or Kenney in power? No. But that's what we're going to get after 2 more years of high-level borrowing and no sense of the public sector sharing any of the pain of the private sector.