UCP's preparing for a fight with public service workers; ramming 2 omnibus bills that will abolish funds for: cancer prevention, climate change,and environmental protection; ending tax credits for: tech, scientific research,and students. #ABbudget #abpoli
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Measures proposed in Bill 20:
End the Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit, Capital Investment Tax Credit, Community and Economic Tax Credit, Alberta Investor Tax Credit, Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Credit.
End education and tuition tax credits.
End the Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit, Capital Investment Tax Credit, Community and Economic Tax Credit, Alberta Investor Tax Credit, Scientific Research and Experimental Development Tax Credit.
End education and tuition tax credits.
Repeal the city charters for Edmonton and Calgary and put a new Local Government Fiscal Framework Act in its place.
Suspend indexation of tax brackets for income tax system, saving the government at least $600 million by the end of 2022-23 fiscal year.
Suspend indexation of tax brackets for income tax system, saving the government at least $600 million by the end of 2022-23 fiscal year.
End the Lottery Fund and move the money into general revenue.
End the Access to the Future Fund, the Alberta Cancer Prevention Legacy Fund, and Environmental Protection and Enhancement Fund.
End the Access to the Future Fund, the Alberta Cancer Prevention Legacy Fund, and Environmental Protection and Enhancement Fund.
Roll the Alberta Child Benefit and Alberta Family Employment Tax Credit into the single Alberta Child and Family Benefit.
Increase tobacco tax rate.
Amend the funding agreements for LRT in Edmonton and Calgary so provincial cash can come after 2023.
Increase tobacco tax rate.
Amend the funding agreements for LRT in Edmonton and Calgary so provincial cash can come after 2023.
Measures proposed in Bill 21:
Temporarily suspend indexation of benefits for Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH), Income Support and the Seniors Lodge Program.
Provide more detailed quarterly financial reports.
Temporarily suspend indexation of benefits for Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH), Income Support and the Seniors Lodge Program.
Provide more detailed quarterly financial reports.
Exclude budget officers, systems analysts, auditors and employees who perform similar functions from bargaining units.
Reverse the replacement worker ban in the public sector.
End tuition freeze for three years.
Increase student loan interest by one per cent.
Reverse the replacement worker ban in the public sector.
End tuition freeze for three years.
Increase student loan interest by one per cent.
End regulated rate option cap for electric.
Allow health minister to place conditions on new practitioner identification numbers.
Allow changes to the master agreement with the Alberta Medical Association.
Allow health minister to place conditions on new practitioner identification numbers.
Allow changes to the master agreement with the Alberta Medical Association.
Allow minister to change through regulation how municipalities pay for policing.
Change how the province uses fine money it collects on behalf of municipalities.
Change how the province uses fine money it collects on behalf of municipalities.
Allow the government to have greater oversight over collective bargaining with public sector employees, including the length of the agreement, and the use of salary surveys.
Subjecting funding for disasters to a supply vote in the legislature.
Subjecting funding for disasters to a supply vote in the legislature.
