Thread by @RachelNotley

Jason Kenney and the UCP did not have a plan for women to succeed in the workforce before the pandemic — and this budget shows us that they don’t have a plan now. 1/12 #ableg

There is no job creation plan for women. 

Economists, businesses and governments across the country are emphasizing the value that women bring to the economy like never before, and they’re doing it with tangible action. 2/12 #ableg

Jason Kenney is ignoring that modern economies and businesses are stronger when women are involved when he says things like Gender-Based Analysis Plus and intersectionality are “kooky” ideas. 3/12 #ableg

Experts around the world are clear that women are bearing the brunt of this economic recession and that public policymakers must therefore target their recovery going forward. 4/12 #ableg

When it comes to childcare, everyone from the Bank of Canada to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce to the Edmonton and Calgary YMCAs, they acknowledge that childcare is foundational to an economic recovery. 5/12 #AbLeg

But there’s no help for childcare in this budget.

In a time where the country and the rest of the world are stressing the importance of investing in child care as an economic driver. 

This kind of thinking is putting our province behind other jurisdictions. 6/12 #ableg

In addition, this budget plans to cut more than a billion dollars from the wages of Albertans working in the public sector, the majority of whom are women, and completely layoff thousands of them. 7/12 #ableg

Jason Kenney’s budget is a plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from Alberta’s post-secondary schools … which are the means for many Alberta women to launch a professional and entrepreneurial career. 8/12 #ableg

And this budget does not provide any kind of forward-looking plan for economic development and diversification. I’ll give you an example - In the Digital Media Tax Credit introduced by our Government, there was a specific incentive for hiring women. 9/12 #ableg

Like the tax credit itself, that incentive has disappeared, leaving women behind in the process.

Let’s be clear, Thursday’s budget is an AIMLESS, UNAMBITIOUS document that abandons Alberta’s future. 10/12 #ableg

There is no blueprint for where we're going and there is no recognition of the unprecedented challenges our province faces. 11/12 #ableg

Alberta women are resilient, they are ambitious, they are key to our future. 

They need a Government that supports them.

They do not see themselves reflected in this budget. 12/12 #ableg