Really though, all the NDP need to do is on day one get rid of this, the no sales tax legislation, the Sovereignty act, and probably 50 other stupid dog whistle waste of money and time pieces of legislation the UCP brought in. Kill it all day one, maybe deal with a day or 2 of fallout, and move on. Leaving handcuffs on yourself to try to wriggle out of in the future isn't wise.
Job cuts at SAIT, NAIT, U of C, U of L, MHC, LCC GMCEWAN etc. NAIT announces 7% tuition increase.
Removal of daycare accreditation.
Dissolution of ADLC.
Insurance rate increase.
Tuition cap removal.
Student loan interest rate increase.
Paying Matt Wolf 200k to troll on Twitter.
Cutting PUF funding to public schools while maintaining funding for private schools.
Stealing public sector pensions to buy a pipeline.
Cutting funding to school boards this year and then lying about it until FOIPped.
Tearing up the contract with doctors.
Moving the AISH payment date to save optics on your budget and then causing AISH recipients stress and anxiety.
Giving 4.7 Billion dollars to profitable Oil and Gas companies only to have them walk out of Alberta thus creating job losses when job creation was promised.
Cutting Parent link center funding.
Paying 30 million dollars a year for 4 years on a war room.
Higher dental rates.
Higher school fees including transportation fees.
Higher medical expenses for seniors.
Higher rent prices.
Higher property taxes via funding cuts to municipalities.
Removal of surgical procedures deemed “unnecessary” many including services women rely on.
100 million dollar bailout for O and G companies for their orphan wells.
Cutting funding to Elite Firefighters.
Cutting funding to Volunteer Firefighters.
Ending Human Rights and Multicultural Grants
Closing/Privatizing recreational (camping) sites.
Moving lottery money to general revenue.
Cutting CNIB money.
Firing the Ethics Commissioner.
Removal of Alberta SR&ED tax credits.
Super lab cancelled.
Ended utility price cap program.
Implementing discriminatory wage legislation for under 18’s. Layman terms - removing the minimum wage for children.
Reinstituted the outdated and ineffective standardized testing (PAT) for Grade Three students. Also, looking at adding Grade 1 - 5 PATS.
Pulled coverage for biological drugs forcing people to biosimilars.
Gave 80 thousand to a church for renovations.
Cut Special Olympic funding. Stars air ambulance funding.
Allowing overtime agreements that impact workers time and a half wage pay.
Altering GSA legislation.
Huge cuts to programs for kids in care.
Bill 26 completely exempts farm and ranch workers who work on a farm with five or fewer employees, not including workers employed for less than six months or who are family members, from the Employment Standards Code.
Permitting Press Secretaries and Issues Managers to belittle and bad-mouth constituents on social media.
Cutting daycare subsidy.
Throwing out new curriculum only to load it with Conservative panel. Panel has no active Alberta teachers on it.
Formation of Fair Deal Panel to basically stoke separatism.
Formed Trades Hall of Fame only to cut post-secondary trades programs at Alberta schools.
Attacking journalists such as those at Medicine Hat News.
Removing AB health coverage from spouses under 65.
40 million given to Glenbow Museum.
Removed breakfast grants then reinstated them after blowback.
Attacked teachers as indoctrinators of children.
Promised to fund enrollment growth in education, then did not.
Blamed and targeted school boards who spoke out against the education cuts.
Deindexing Alberta Works and AISH
Taking away benefits for those cared for by seniors
Eliminating the Rental Assistance Program
Halving the investment in affordable housing
Cutting maintenance to affordable housing
Said they'd cut 2.8% spending 4 days later said they're cutting over 14%.
Cut PCS funding.
Cut Emergency transportation amount ($98) from Alberta Works Recipients
Restricting access to the Additional Shelter Amount so AW Recipients can't afford rent
Adding barriers to accessing AW (new paperwork heavy process)
Adding red tape (means testing) to seniors benefits
Removed 270 agricultural scientists.
Increased or maintained funding to private schools.
Cuts to Diagnostic imaging ordered by physiotherapy and chiropractors.
Cuts to High Fidelity Wraparound Services.
Cut education tax credit.
Cut funding for SCS. Calgary Medicine Hat. Implemented SCS review panel comprised of members who have never worked at or accessed SCS services.
Bill 1 which looks to remove protest rights.
Higher deficit than previous government.
Possible change to negligence in auto accident claims. See fairalbertainjuryregulations dot ca for details.
Bill 5 - calls to question school board autonomy by restricting use of reserve funds without minister approval.
125 laid off from Alberta Innovates.
Raised personal income tax. Lowered basic amount.
40 thousand on Pickle ball.
Decreased funds to homeless shelters including but not limited to Fort McMurray.
Elimination of the STEP program, a summer student program that employed many post-secondary students from May to August.
Removed class size initiatives.
Allowing for an unworkable wildlife corridor in Canmore so a developer can build a resort. This project was rejected by last year with the exact same footprint.
Broke contract with AB paramedics for a wage re-opener in third year of contact before going into new term contract negotiations despite the previous salary freeze with no cost of living increases in nearly a decade.
Cancel the working group tasked with banning gay conversion therapy in Alberta.
Making Fish and Wildlife officers into first responders.
Reducing municipality grants which directly led to expansion of “cost recovery” for fire services in many areas. Bills from Fire Department.
Set up "snitch line" for Un-Albertan activity
Edit: Looks like the Google doc link has waaaay more than the spoilered list.
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This is monumentally stupid. When oil revenues dry up, how do you propose to make up the shortfall without raising taxes? This is the job of MLAs, to make hard decisions that need to be made.
Cuts to Education, Healthcare, oh, and you'll have to pay for provincial park access of course! No more taxes or Red tape though!
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This is a pretty damning report of how Albertans have fared economically under the UCP. Spoiler alert: it hasn't been great. #ableg
I don’t think any party cares about spending anymore. Budgets balance themselves
Does this mean that anyone who votes for the UCP now isn’t doing so because they’re fiscally responsible but instead because they support their other let’s just call them shenanigans?
Serious question. Smith has forced me to volunteer for the NDP this election.
I live in Calgary Buffalo and pretty sure Joe Ceci is ok with volunteers and his chances at election. Do any of you know any NDP MLA candidates in Calgary who are needing more hands on deck?
Come volunteer in Calgary - Glenmore. https://nagwanalguneid.albertandp.ca/ It's a riding that has a good possibility of swinging and has a solid NDP candidate. We are seeing volunteers from unwinable ridings come and help out, including Ceci this past weekend (although, I think many of the candidates are reciprocating).
Plus, if you join us, I can update my count in the How many CP members have you met? from zero to one. That's a huge increase!
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Hey, don't discount all the posters who are offering up compelling arguments for the arena such as, "shut up and enjoy it." They're about to turn the tide of public opinion. I can really feel it.
Who knows? Maybe they can get help with the religious right getting on board with it?
This is monumentally stupid. When oil revenues dry up, how do you propose to make up the shortfall without raising taxes? This is the job of MLAs, to make hard decisions that need to be made.
It's brilliant actually. Opens the door to brining in an HST/PST since that is not a 'personal' tax.
So apparently there is a 6 week confidentiality period on the deal(what a coincidence!). Smith has made it an election issue. Notley has called for the details, which may contain additional costs and explanation as to overruns. As an election issue, how are we supposed to decide on it with no information?
I think Notley handled this well, with no info, how can she comment on it?
"If you want a mandate for something, you need to tell people what it is you want a mandate for." ####ing rights you do. Hopefully Smith gets raked over the coals for this, and embarrassed at the debate.
Why can't we get the info before the election is over? What changes between now and then?
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Whatever happened to the SoCreds? They turned into the "Pro-Life Alberta Political Association", who are a single issue anti abortion group who uses the fact they are technically a political party to have their supporters get huge tax credits from donations. They have raised more in the last year than any party not named UCP or NDP.
