kcantor said:
Sooo...

Let's cancel the construction of new hospitals, refuse to participate in a national pharmacare program, dismantle AHS, create 4 independent health agencies who won't talk to each other but will be easier for politicians to control, all while continuing to underfund and ignore those things that we all know will have positive outcomes. Prep work for private American style healthcare.

It's almost as if the UCP has hired some Machiavellian actuarial who has somehow determined that in the long run it's cheaper to let people suffer and die than it is to keep them healthy and productive. They then paint it all as simply responding to a spending problem. We don't have a spending problem, we have an income problem caused and exacerbated by being the only province and one of the few jurisdictions in the world without a sales tax. This is a screen play - written and choreographed to convince Albertans that public healthcare is a disaster and only private for-profit healthcare can fix the mess UCP created. This is all been a multiyear UCP scam.
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My thoughts Ken in red above.
 
Lyin' Dani:

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Our representatives (elected in a free and fair election) should be able to criticize the other orders of government and advocate on behalf of their constituents and not fear what happens if they’re not towing the provincial party line, otherwise what’s the point?

I want my mayor and councillor to rail on the province for this position to not build the hospital, because advocating for the city is what I went out and elected them to do.
 
Garneau2Go said:
Our representatives (elected in a free and fair election) should be able to criticize the other orders of government and advocate on behalf of their constituents and not fear what happens if they’re not towing the provincial party line, otherwise what’s the point?

I want my mayor and councillor to rail on the province for this position to not build the hospital, because advocating for the city is what I went out and elected them to do.
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You know, at this point, what do they have to lose? They already can't stand each other as seen by some recent events (homeless issues, Trudeau's housing annoucement).

Grab a backbone and speak up for the city already!
 
Gus Haynes said:
Lyin' Dani:

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Along with that, the government has a reduced surplus because of higher costs fighting climate emergencies and yet:
- new restrictions on renewable energy projects
- next to no restrictions on oil and gas development: production ramping up despite water and land impacts
- oil and gas companies still owe rural municipalities $250m in taxes
- Alberta has blackout risks and we're paying the most expensive energy costs in the country

What file should we move onto next? Health? Education? Human rights?

Ok, education it is. Alberta spending less per student than any other province - easily.

 
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Whattagame said:
Cultivating the next generation of UCP voters. None of this is an accident.
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So the Alberta advantage, which curiously isn't talked about much anymore, doesn't seem to apply to service levels. Really our resource revenues are just subsidizing lower tax rates for large corporations and high income earners.
 
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