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Originally Posted by driveway

Based on the AHS budget AHS spend 75 million dollars total on "food and dietary" expenses (table, page 37). Now, that's for the entire AHS, so the budget for food going to seniors homes has to be significantly less than that.

And, this is from the very first page of the 2012 budget tax plan

Now, you can argue that Alberta's low tax rate encourages growth and investment, however, Alberta did not enjoy a significant advantage over other provinces in terms of GDP growth from 2005-2010. Saskatchewan, for example, increased their share of Canada's GDP by .71% compared to .22% for Alberta AND increased their actual GDP by almost 50%, compared to about 20% growth for Alberta. Saskatchewan is the very province who's tax rates would increase our government revenues by that 10.7 billion.

Source: Wikipedia

A minor, in fact almost completely negligible, increase in revenues in this province would be more than enough to fund a huge increase in the quality of all kinds of health care.

I'm sure the Wildrose Party would support raising taxes and increasing spending if it means better health care and care for seniors. I'm sure their supporters will flood your post with 'Thanks'.