Friday, September 06, 2024

Why I can’t vote for the UCP led by Danielle Smith

[This is but a small sample from a real live list of hundreds of horrible decisions, bad faith politicking, power grabs and funding cuts enacted by the UCP]


Interference in AHS hiring Dr Deena Hinshaw as Public Health and Preventive Medicine Lead with the Indigenous Wellness Core.

Interfering with the CPP even after it became clear that the majority of Albertans do not want an Alberta Pension Plan.

Reinstating the fuel tax even while many people were struggling to make ends meet.

Pausing all green energy projects even while the premier admitted that the grid needs more generation capacity.

Unreasonable tuition increases and education program cuts.

Education tax credit eliminated.

Increased funding to private schools.

Cap lifted on charter school funding.

Unnecessarily spending on privatizing the lab services, jeopardizing careers and making it difficult to get an appointment only to cancel the switch.

Tried to move forward with a new school curriculum that no school board wanted.

Tried to remove breakfast grants.

Threw out a new school curriculum. Created a Conservative panel with no active Alberta teachers on it.

Cutting the daycare subsidy.

Cancellation of 450 Children’s Service grants.

Mask mandates and online school classes are banned.

Deindexing Alberta Works and AISH.

John Howard Society loses all funding. Woods Homes funding cut.

STARS air ambulance funding cut.

CERB recipients cut from all provincial supports.

Funding cuts to museums and heritage sites.

Accusing teachers of ‘indoctrinating’ children.

Energy War Room. Finally cancelled, but should never have started.

Foreign mining companies are allowed to ‘explore’ coal mining.

Oil and gas companies now have a property tax exemption.

Provincial Park fees.

Cut funding to elite wildfire firefighters.

Closed down the rappel wildfire firefighting team.

Bad faith bargaining with doctors.

Bill 10 allows laws to be passed without due process.

Constant battling with Ottawa. Blaming them for literally everything.

Cuts to legal aid. Then cancelling the contract for legal aid.

Ceased Indigenous Land Acknowledgements.

Alberta doesn't recognize National Truth and Reconciliation Day.

Alberta removed provincial indigenous tax exemption cards.

“The unvaccinated are the most discriminated group”.

Threatening to put hospitals under a Catholic healthcare provider whose listed principles include no abortion, no IVF, no contraception, pharmaceutical or otherwise, whose board is primarily made up of former UCP politicians.

Trying to block the Green Line at every turn.

Refusing to increase funding to Calgary’s Green Line.

Trying to blame the Green line cost overruns and now cancellations on Nenshi.


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