Did UCP voters know what they were doing?

By Letter to the Editor on April 21, 2021.

Editor: Did anyone in Alberta who voted for the UCP in the last election realize that they were voting in a dictatorship?
First they cut funding to the secondary education facilities across Alberta. Then they went after the public service workers. They reduced the number of teacher aides in classrooms.
Now they are arbitrarily changing the curriculum in the K-6 grades. How destructive are these decisions going to directly affect the generation most closely related to this appalling over-reach of power? The people making up the curriculum do not seem to want to involve the people closest to the situation.
There seems to be no involvement in communicating with the people their decisions affect.
The coal policy immediately comes to mind again. No consultation with the people of the province most affected. All the talking to local MLAS falls on deaf ears.
The health care system is another area that the health minister decided to slash and burn the system. Everyone can see the problems that that has caused with the COVID pandemic and the poor roll-out of the COVID vaccine. Another boondoggle.
On again, off again, closures of small businesses which are the lifeblood of most communities across Alberta. They just do not seem to be able to get things right on anything they purport that needs improving. Improving? More like destroying!
Those who voted for UCP trashed the NDP government we had, but things were a lot better thought out before they were implemented. The UCP have ministers in charge that do not have a clue as to what is the right thing to do in their particular portfolio.
It is definitely time for Albertans to wake up and realize the huge mistake they made in voting in the UCP party in the last election.
Bernard Tichler
Lethbridge