Category: Politics

Hoping for a return to the past is not a plan Alberta’s future won’t be found by trading teachers for tax cuts, Rachel Notley said Wednesday. Notley outlined her plan to unlock $75 billion in private investment in adding value to Alberta’s energy sector outside of the industrial heartland. The plan would double Alberta’s petrochemical…

UCP will defend Premier Lougheed’s legacy and take the fight to Trudeau CALGARY, AB: A United Conservative government will challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s unwarranted intrusion into provincial jurisdiction and fight Bill C-69 with every legal tool available. UCP leader Jason Kenney made the announcement as part of a package of policies designed to get pipelines…

Rachel Notley’s fight for a living wage Jason Kenney set off a firestorm over minimum wage when, while questioned about cutting wages for bar staff and young Albertans working in restaurants, the UCP leader spoke about “people of a modest level of human capital.” It didn’t go over well. Some thought Kenney was targeting people…

One of the most common complaints you hear about our political process is that the parties are too similar, and that once elected, politicians will continue doing things the same way. This provincial election, you can throw that notion right out the window. On a host of issues, from jobs and the economy, to property…

UCP Leader Kenney promises getting rid of the NDP’s job-killing carbon tax will be ‘Job One’ LETHBRIDGE, AB: “Bill 1 for a United Conservative Party government would be the repeal of the Alberta carbon tax,” said UCP leader Jason Kenney today. “This is a job-killing tax on everything. Right now, it is taking $1.4 billion out…

Time for change: As election is called, Kenney challenges NDP on carbon tax, soaring taxes, sky-high deficits and job losses LEDUC, AB: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?” said United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, speaking shortly after the election was called for 16th day of April. “For the vast majority of Albertans, the answer is…

Today’s NDP Throne Speech said nothing about the jobs crisis, nothing about getting Albertans back to work, and nothing about bringing jobs back to Alberta. Edmonton, AB (March 18, 2019) – United Conservative leader Jason Kenney has issued the following statement regarding the NDP government’s Speech from the Throne in the Alberta Legislature today: “Today’s Throne Speech…

Ottawa, ON – The Honourable Andrew Scheer, Leader of Canada’s Conservatives and the Official Opposition, issued the following statement on Budget 2019: “With Budget 2019, Justin Trudeau is covering up his corruption under $41 billion of brand new spending paid for by tax hikes if he’s re-elected. “It is the most expensive cover-up in the history…

Ottawa, Ontario – Today, members of the Standing Committee on International Trade members amended a Conservative motion inviting the Ministers of Agriculture and Agri-Food and International Trade Diversification to appear before Canadians and outline what the Liberal government is doing to restore market access to China for Canadian canola. However, the Liberals voted down inviting the Minister of Foreign…

EDMONTON – Alberta’s Chief Electoral Officer, Glen Resler, confirms that Writs were issued today to administer elections across Alberta. “I am pleased to implement new legislation for the general election that will provide electors with new and improved voting opportunities, such as an additional day of advance poll voting and the ability for all electors…

March 18, 2019 The fifth session of the 29th legislature opened with a speech from the throne delivered by Her Honour, Lois Mitchell, CM, AOE, LLD, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. Fellow Albertans. Welcome to this, the first day of your legislature. We gather today on the traditional territory of Treaty Six and acknowledge the Métis…

AFPA Releases Election Platform Edmonton, March 14, 2019 – Today, the Alberta Forest Products Association released Help Alberta’s Forest Industry Thrive, an election document for candidates in the upcoming provincial election. The document outlines actions that government can take to ensure a strong future for the province’s 3rdlargest resource sector. “Forestry has been one of the pillars of Alberta’s economy…

EDMONTON, AB (March 18, 2019): In response to reporting from Jen Gerson in Maclean’s, United Conservative Party Executive Director Janice Harrington has issued the following statement: “This revelation confirms what we have been saying repeatedly for months – that the Jason Kenney campaign had nothing to do with the funding of the Jeff Callaway campaign. Any claim otherwise…

One of the great privileges of working with the Alberta Party Caucus is getting to work with MLAs that value public service and put the needs of Albertans first. Nobody embodied that spirit of public service more than the MLA for Calgary-Mackay Nose Hill, Karen McPherson. During her time with our caucus Karen has advocated…