Alberta's back, baby..We're experiencing the highest migration of people to our province in years, the lowest unemployment rates since 2015, a whopping surplus projection of $13.2-billion, a boom in our energy sector and growth in other sectors, such as tech, agriculture, and manufacturing..It’s an upward trajectory for our province, and Albertans need to get behind the only provincial leadership that will champion our best-in-the-world Alberta energy, foster growth in our private sector by reducing red tape, fix our broken and bloated health-care system and stand up to Ottawa..UCP Premier Danielle Smith ran a leadership campaign on just that — more Alberta and less Ottawa. Her message resonated deeply with Albertans, evidenced by her ability to fill rooms across the province and invigorate supporters, not unlike the momentum Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre created..She has made it clear just like Quebec has done since time immemorial, it’s time for Alberta to get serious about standing up to Ottawa and getting a better deal under the constitution. It seems she's ignited something in the West, as just last week Saskatchewan announced it will bring forward the Saskatchewan First Act to bolster the province’s autonomy and exclusive jurisdiction over its natural resources..By contrast, rather than committing to standing up to Prime Minister Trudeau, the Rachel Notley NDP demonstrated a long history of policies that align with his eco-radical, anti-oilsands agenda. She is on side with Trudeau and federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh (the ‘Carbon Tax Coalition’) and would support the tripling of our carbon taxes, which would only worsen the plague of #justinflation we are all living under..They always say to follow the money and if you do that with Rachel Notley’s NDP, you will see a disturbing trend of dark money from big unions and eco-radicals..The NDP had four years to fix a bloated and broken Alberta Health Services, but only managed to fuel the fires of managers hiring managers and upper echelon bureaucrats lining their pockets, while our boots-on-the-ground nurses, doctors and support teams were drowning in poor working conditions and red tape roadblocks to provide the quality patient care they so desperately are trying to deliver. It’s pretty ironic, given how the NDP like to tout themselves as the party of the people, but their track record demonstrates the complete opposite..Just last week, a letter was penned by some 1,600 health-care workers and concerned citizens to Smith to applaud her on her bold stance with AHS and to share their view on the “gross mismanagement of AHS during the pandemic.”.The pandemic was the icing on the cake and Smith is wasting no time at putting the wheels in motion to structurally reform the AHS board, fix EMS and surgical backlog and in her own words: “to put frontline health-care workers back in charge.”.Rural Alberta, which has been dealing with both rising crime and health-care access challenges, now has a leader committed to prioritizing the needs of our smaller municipalities. I am asking Albertans to unite and get behind Premier Smith and the UCP party to show up at a polling station near you in the spring of 2023 to make sure the Alberta NDP stay one and done. Our future and our prosperity depend on it..Lindsay Wilson is president of Alberta Proud.
Alberta's back, baby..We're experiencing the highest migration of people to our province in years, the lowest unemployment rates since 2015, a whopping surplus projection of $13.2-billion, a boom in our energy sector and growth in other sectors, such as tech, agriculture, and manufacturing..It’s an upward trajectory for our province, and Albertans need to get behind the only provincial leadership that will champion our best-in-the-world Alberta energy, foster growth in our private sector by reducing red tape, fix our broken and bloated health-care system and stand up to Ottawa..UCP Premier Danielle Smith ran a leadership campaign on just that — more Alberta and less Ottawa. Her message resonated deeply with Albertans, evidenced by her ability to fill rooms across the province and invigorate supporters, not unlike the momentum Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre created..She has made it clear just like Quebec has done since time immemorial, it’s time for Alberta to get serious about standing up to Ottawa and getting a better deal under the constitution. It seems she's ignited something in the West, as just last week Saskatchewan announced it will bring forward the Saskatchewan First Act to bolster the province’s autonomy and exclusive jurisdiction over its natural resources..By contrast, rather than committing to standing up to Prime Minister Trudeau, the Rachel Notley NDP demonstrated a long history of policies that align with his eco-radical, anti-oilsands agenda. She is on side with Trudeau and federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh (the ‘Carbon Tax Coalition’) and would support the tripling of our carbon taxes, which would only worsen the plague of #justinflation we are all living under..They always say to follow the money and if you do that with Rachel Notley’s NDP, you will see a disturbing trend of dark money from big unions and eco-radicals..The NDP had four years to fix a bloated and broken Alberta Health Services, but only managed to fuel the fires of managers hiring managers and upper echelon bureaucrats lining their pockets, while our boots-on-the-ground nurses, doctors and support teams were drowning in poor working conditions and red tape roadblocks to provide the quality patient care they so desperately are trying to deliver. It’s pretty ironic, given how the NDP like to tout themselves as the party of the people, but their track record demonstrates the complete opposite..Just last week, a letter was penned by some 1,600 health-care workers and concerned citizens to Smith to applaud her on her bold stance with AHS and to share their view on the “gross mismanagement of AHS during the pandemic.”.The pandemic was the icing on the cake and Smith is wasting no time at putting the wheels in motion to structurally reform the AHS board, fix EMS and surgical backlog and in her own words: “to put frontline health-care workers back in charge.”.Rural Alberta, which has been dealing with both rising crime and health-care access challenges, now has a leader committed to prioritizing the needs of our smaller municipalities. I am asking Albertans to unite and get behind Premier Smith and the UCP party to show up at a polling station near you in the spring of 2023 to make sure the Alberta NDP stay one and done. Our future and our prosperity depend on it..Lindsay Wilson is president of Alberta Proud.
