Category: Politics

EDMONTON, AB: The NDP should drop their plan to provide political parties with millions of dollars in taxpayer funded rebates during a time of massive deficits and economic uncertainty, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. Today, NDP Edmonton-Ellerslie MLA Rod Loyola introduced a motion in the Ethics and Accountability Committee that would rebate political parties and…

EDMONTON, AB: With the government spending almost $6 million in government advertising in just one year, the NDP should either scrap a new motion to limit election spending or give political parties the same spending caps on advertising as the Alberta government, the Wildrose Official Opposition said Tuesday. At a recent Ethics & Accountability Committee meeting, NDP…

EDMONTON, AB: Decades-old documents show the clause protecting Albertans from a government introducing massive tax or regulatory changes to Alberta’s electricity grid had always been the government’s intention, the Wildrose Official Opposition said. Alberta government regulation 175/2000 includes documents prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP which led a team of independent regulatory experts in charge of creating…

EDMONTON, AB (August 10, 2016): With documents obtained by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) indicating that Finance Minister Joe Ceci may have been aware of the economic consequences of losing our triple-A credit rating before he acted, Albertans deserve to know the true costs of the NDP’s risky economic plans, the Wildrose Official Opposition…

EDMONTON, AB: Recent actions by the NDP government and their union counterparts demonstrate that in the face of the worst economic downturn in over 50 years, the NDP government is choosing public sector pay raises over fiscal restraint, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. Particularly in a time when significant job losses and cutbacks are the…

EDMONTON, AB: The never-ending parade of reckless NDP policies are making a bad situation worse for the more than 100,000 Albertans who lost their jobs over the past year and who are now looking for work in the bleakest job market the province has seen in decades, the Wildrose Official Opposition said today. A Statistics…