Allen Schultz for Calgary-Edgemont

Focus on fiscal and social responsibility. Our next government needs to be transparent, accountable, and uphold the rule of law.

Alberta Party plans to:

• Govern from the middle, not the far right or far left 

• Listen to Albertans that the road to good governance is not found on the shoulders of extremism and polarized politics

• Collaborate with all forms of government from municipal to federal

Alberta Party's values are:

• Open, Respectful and Collaborative Government you can trust

• Entrepreneurship and PrivateEnterprise are the Keys to Economic Prosperity

• Public tax dollars must be used as efficiently as possible

• The government must provide high-quality public services like education, and healthcare and maintain public infrastructure

• We believe governments have an important role to play in transitioning to a sustainable economy

• We believe public business should be conducted in public and that the rule of law must be obeyed by those in power

• We believe that Quality of life requires the support of recreation, arts & culture along with a strong economic environment

We will direct help where it is needed the most.

Alberta Party plans to: 

• Deliver affordability payments to those that need it most including students, renters, families without children and singles.

• Cutting taxes for low-income Albertans by increasing the personal exemption for those making less than $50,000

• Increasing the support for those on income supports to ensure a living wage (indexed to inflation)

• A long-term commitment to invest in affordable housing in partnership with Municipal and Federal government

• Lower the costs of post-secondary and training by 50% over 5 years

• Introduce a residential property tax credit

• Repatriate the carbon Levy and distribute the proceeds back to Albertans

• Reform the regulated rate for electricity and natural gas

Working with our healthcare professionals is how we will innovate and create preventative measures to create timely access to care.

Alberta Party plans to:

• Fund a plan to ensure every Albertan has access to a family physician

• Double the seats for all allied health professional training in Alberta

• Increase residency spaces for both foreign trained and Canadian trained Doctors

• Improve financial incentives for Family medicine doctors, rural doctors and medical practitioners

• Create more efficient certification pathways for foreign trained health care workers

• Allow Nurse Practitioners and others to be realizing their full scopes of practice in a team environment by reforming billing rules

• Address EMS staffing issues to resolve response times

• Invest in prevention to keep Albertan’s out of acute care

• Mental health is health care and should be funded as such

Our public dollars must be used effectively, efficiently, and sustainably to attract more investment into Alberta.

Alberta Party plans to:

• Establish Alberta as a clean energy leader in oil and gas non-renewable and emerging renewable sources for Canada and the world by providing stable, competitive regulatory policy that serves the long term needs of Alberta and investors

• Get our resources out to market

• Remove small business tax

• Alberta’s economic future will be brighter than its past as we diversify and support growth in new and traditional industries

  • • Agricultural Excellence

    • IT, data and knowledge based industry

    • Tourism 

    • Film and Arts

• We must protect the true Alberta Advantage - our clean air, land and water

Investing in education at all levels is the path to developing knowledge and skills to improve our future.

Alberta Party plans to:

• Put a freeze on funding for Private and Charter Schools and commit to properly fund public education

• Adopt class size recommendations(k-3: 17, 4-6: 23, 7-9: 25, 10-12: 27)

• Adopt a new funding model that responds to dynamic changes in classrooms

• Resource-preventative wellness programs for students and teachers

• Fund access to mental health support and therapy

• Commit to identifying learning challenges in preschool children and properly fund the assistance required

• Develop a province-wide, priority-based infrastructure plan for schools

• In collaboration with stakeholders including teachers and students create a non-partisan curriculum based on best practices

Collaborate solutions for inclusion and dignity for people. Lift up Albertans with disabilities, addictions, affordability, and youth at risk.

The Alberta Party plans to:

• Support a growing seniors population that will peak in the next decade

• Improve the lives of approx. 370 000 Albertans living with disabilities

• Seek first to listen and then understand the issues and challenges facing Alberta Indigenous and Metis peoples

• Seek prevention as well as treatment (“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults” (Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895) )