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Originally Posted by crazy_eoj

NDP Government being sued by small business owners hurt by the inept changes made by NDP ideology:

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...oadblocks-grow

But it’s not just the business owners who are suffering. Already, in many parts of Alberta, it is virtually impossible to get a Class 4 driver’s test — which is needed before someone can drive an ambulance, taxi or small bus, several examiners revealed, something that a Government of Alberta spokesperson acknowledged Wednesday.

Many of the private businesses provided tests from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Some would work until 10 p.m. in the summer months to help accommodate people needing their licence for employment purposes.

Now, the government driver examiners work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday, just like the old days, before then-premier Ralph Klein privatized the system in 1993. Before privatization, people often had to wait up to three months to take their driving test and often had to book half a day off of work to do so.

“The NDP government has again demonstrated their incompetence and inability to help build Alberta’s economy,” Llewellyn said Wednesday.

“The cost to the taxpayer must be huge,” she added. The government has bought a fleet of new vehicles for the driver examiners, they all got government-issued cellphones and special tablets to book and grade the drivers with, that “have been glitching out all over the place.”

She says she was sent two hours out of town to conduct a single driver’s test. She doesn’t want the name of the city she was sent to named, in case her identity could be revealed as a result.

Imagine the cost to taxpayers of that?

In short, the NDP government has destroyed a perfectly functioning system that simply needed more oversight and replaced it with a dilapidated dinosaur of a system. It will cost Albertans more in time, money and frustration, and now court costs.