Nothing from the UCP to get Albertans a family doctor, nothing to address the specific calls from frontline paramedics to reduce wait times, and nothing to get children’s medication in the hands of Alberta parents. 🧵
The new round of chaos Danielle Smith is inflicting on health care will make the situation worse. Health care workers deserve leadership that will listen to them and support them.
The dismissal of the AHS board today is nothing more than bad political theatre or as Danielle Smith herself said when the Redford government did the exact same thing: it’s window dressing.
We will bring real resources to the frontline and reverse the years of UCP cuts. We will work collaboratively and respectfully with healthcare professionals. We will launch the largest healthcare recruitment campaign in the history of our province.
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.