I know things look bleak under the UCP. From cutting the youth minimum wage to raising the cost of your tuition, they have trampled on the opportunities this province once presented for you to build your future.
The @albertaNDP will make it a core priority to undo the UCP government’s attacks on young people—and to build up our province so that young people want to move HERE instead of move away. #ableg#yyc#yeg
We depend on tradespeople to build everything from roads and hospitals to pipelines and refineries. Yet skilled trades training centres don’t get a penny of provincial funding, even as Alberta faces a skills shortage.
I have announced that we will scale up the number of Albertans who can seek meaningful employment in a trade by directly funding skilled trades training centres. #ableg
We’ll start with $3 million, but if demand is met, we’ll double our support. And if that demand is met, we’ll double it again. #ableg
Albertans are looking for a resilient jobs economy.
One of those Albertans came up to me just the other day. 🧵 #ableg#yyc
She was a young woman working in a coffee shop, over in Bankview, and she waved at me just as I was leaving.
And she said, “I just wanted to let you know that I’ll be voting for you.”
And I said, “thank you … that’s very kind.”
And … she burst into tears.
So, we went outside and she told me how much the tuition for her university degree program had gone up — and now she’s getting hit with all these extra fees just to take her exams.
It’s why I first decided to run for political office: to create a province that takes the best elements of itself to build something better for us all.
The UCP government deindexed personal income taxes in their first budget in 2019.
This move increased income taxes on Albertans by more than $300 million dollars. 💸
The UCP then lied about it for three and a half years. 1/5
This tax increase has cost Albertans hundreds of millions in additional taxes during the worst affordability crisis in 40 years.
Today’s announcement fails to give all of that money back to Albertans who need it to afford food, housing, utilities, and car insurance. 2/5
While it’s good to see the UCP’s finally reverse their terrible decision to increase income taxes on Albertans, it’s only one of several ways they have made life more expensive. 3/5