ADAP will make life brutish and short
By Lethbridge Herald on March 27, 2026.
Dear editor,
I have been reading updates about the province’s ADAP program and the disabled community’s reaction to it. I think about my son.
It would be wonderful to believe in the province’s fantasy of training disabled people to work fulfilling jobs.
However, training has already been available for the disabled for decades now. Also it has been increasingly harder to get on AISH for many years.
I would love it for my son to be able to work at a job and feel like he contributes to society. However, his sensory overload is extreme. He is happy.
But I am afraid the changes to disability support programs in Alberta will make life brutish and short for many.
We will take it will one day at a time.
Diane MacNaughton
Medicine Hat
10-9
UCP and Danielle Smith pick on the weak, the poor, the vulnerable. They call themselves Christians, they are not Christians. They are not good people.
A well written letter. The UCP and Danielle Smith show no concerns about the vulnerable in Alberta, including those on AISH. It is very bad.
The UCP de-indexed AISH to the rate of inflation, which is a cut. Since Alberta has had the highest rate of inflation in Canada for many years, or has been close to having the highest rate of inflation in Canada, those on AISH can’t afford to properly live.
Without any warning, the UCP switched the payment dates for AISH clients from 4 banking days before the first day of the next month, to the first day of the next month, making many people on AISH not be able to pay their rent and their bills on time, causing them to default on those things. They also had to go longer on less income. After a huge outcry, long after, the UCP changed the payment dates for AISH back to 4 banking days before the first day of the next month.
The UCP cut off different supplemental benefits for those on AISH. The UCP also blew $80 million on Turkish Tylenol, which couldn’t be used, and the $49 million of that money which is still missing, is what the UCP cut off from the AISH budget. The UCP were also the only government in Canada, from the provinces and the territories, to claw back the federal Liberal’s $200 a month disability supplement.
There is also a lack of affordable housing in Alberta, and power prices are the most costliest in Canada, due to Ralph Klein’s deregulation of electricity, TransAlta manipulating power prices, and economic withholding from the UCP. Alberta has the highest rate of food bank usage in Canada, and many on AISH struggle to eat.
ADAP for AISH clients will further push those on AISH into poverty, but the UCP doesn’t care. This month, on her own phone in radio talk show, Danielle Smith admitted that she wants to see people who are on AISH, off AISH and working. Peter Lougheed created AISH in 1979, because he cared about all Albertans, including the most vulnerable. The UCP and Danielle Smith doesn’t care about anyone, other than themselves, and their wealthy corporate buddies.
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