Budget decisions the reason doctors and other healthcare workers leaving Alberta

By Letter to the Editor on June 25, 2021.

Editor:
Minister of Alberta Health Tyler Shandro must be living in a cloud if, as his recent letter to the editor Wednesday 23 June suggests, he believes that COVID circumstances are the central cause of a destabilized healthcare workforce in our Province.
It is evident to the majority of Albertans that the UCP’s budget decisions and outright hostility expressed towards public sector workers are determining factors causing physicians, in addition to other highly educated or trained health care workers, to flee the province.
An aggressively negative labour policy environment generated by the current government does not bode well for recruitment and retention of any skilled professionals including in healthcare, elementary, and advanced education.
Carol Williams
Lethbridge