Our NDP Children’s Services Critic @pancholi_rakhi and I were so pleased to be joined by Phil Fulton, a father of two children in #Calgary, who talked about his family's struggle to find child care that was available, affordable, of good quality and close to their home and work.
In Calgary, the average cost of full-time child care is $1,000 per month, making it the third most expensive city in Canada for child care. #yyc
We're calling for a comprehensive workforce strategy as part of a new proposal for universal, quality, affordable and accessible early learning and child care.
When fully implemented, the proposal, available for download at AlbertasFuture.ca, would put at least 42,500 people back to work and would increase Alberta’s GDP by nearly $6 billion.
The wildcat strikes occurring across Alberta are deeply concerning. Like all Albertans, our Caucus believes patient safety must always be the top priority.
Jason Kenney’s proposal to privatize the work of 11,000 front line healthcare workers in the middle of a pandemic will absolutely result in poorer quality healthcare for Albertans.
His suggestion that this can be done without compromising care defies common sense. For the sake of Alberta patients and the people who care about them, this reckless plan must stop.
We're calling for a comprehensive workforce strategy as part of a new proposal for universal, quality, affordable and accessible early learning and child care.
When fully implemented, the proposal, released Friday at AlbertasFuture.ca would put at least 42,500 people back to work and would increase Alberta’s GDP by nearly $6 billion.
The single most effective economic strategy we can implement to get people back to work and grow our economy, is to offer universal, affordable early learning child care.
Jason Kenney’s Health Minister Tyler Shandro revealed plans today to destroy 11,000 jobs at AHS, spread confusion and chaos across the province’s hospitals, and impose new out-of-pocket costs onto Alberta patients and families.
Jason Kenney’s plans are completely irresponsible. These plans will cause harm to patients, harm to communities - particularly rural ones - and they will harm our chances for an economic recovery.
The AHS Performance Review Proposed Implementation Plan, finalized in mid-August and released publicly today, calls for the “reconfiguring” rural ERs; contracting out of housekeeping, food services, and laundry services; and new charges and co-pays for seniors in long-term care.
CERB recipients and our Official Opposition Caucus have been calling for an apology since the video surfaced Tuesday in which UCP MLA for Lac Ste. Anne-Parkland Shane Getson claimed that CERB recipients used the money to purchase “cheezies”, watch “cartoons” and do drugs.
After his comments surfaced, Getson issued a public statement in which he doubled down on his comments.
NDP Labour Critic Christina Gray noted the #UCP itself accessed a federal wage subsidy program to keep its party office running during the pandemic.
“The Albertans struggling during this pandemic, who were rightly offended by these hurtful comments, deserve an apology from Jason Kenney and Shane Getson.”
- @ChristinaNDP, NDP Labour Critic
Jason Kenney should have given you a bold vision for economic recovery. Instead, he’s doubling down on his failed corporate handout.
His new economic recovery plan doesn’t help struggling workers. You deserve a better plan – here’s your chance to demand one.
One year ago, Jason Kenney introduced a massive corporate handout. He promised Albertans that his plan would create jobs.
It hasn’t. In fact, his failed policy saw the loss of 50,000 jobs just before the pandemic hit.
Even worse, the UCP are warning Albertans again that they’ll be paying for austerity cuts. Why is it a “fiscal reckoning” and job loss for you while UCP insiders get a big payday? It’s not right, and we need to demand better.