UCP has developed a bad habit of fighting the province’s most needed citizens
By Lethbridge Herald on May 19, 2023.
Editor:
Government is for providing public services but the UCP is blind to that. All they can do is cut, cut, cut.
Health, education, environment, and now we’re learning they eliminated the forest fire RAP-Attack crews and cut our wildfire protective services when we need them most.
The UCP has developed a bad habit of fighting against our most-needed citizens – doctors, nurses, EMTs, and environmental professionals. And these people are fed up – they’re leaving in droves.
But no worries, as Albertan’s houses are burning down they’ll line up at the polls to vote their adored conservatives back in again.
No matter how incompetent, neglectful and crazy the conservatives get, Albertans still elect them.
Richard Quinlan
Lethbridge
9-8
I couldn’t have said it any better and our family are former 30 year supporters of Alberta Conservatives. These are Reformers and are nothing like the Conservatives we proudly supported under Lougheed and Getty and these ignorant seniors we see believing all their lies are helping them destroy our children’s future, and are too dumb to realize it.
Supporting criminals , insulting Albertans who dared to get vaccinated by comparing us to Hitler’s Nazis , Smith getting herself charged with breaking government rules, planning to destroy jobs by kicking out the RCMP and scraping the CBC, is only a small part of stupidity they have brought to the table. Now they want sell off our hospitals, in other words privatize them and charge us user fees to access our health care system. They don’t care what it will do to us seniors, they certainly care about lives lost during the pandemic did they?.
Retired doctor friends who worked under a two-tiered health care system in Europe have made it crystal clear that we had better not let them destroy our public health care system. They will put many rural Albertans lives at risk. There is no way doctors and nurses will stay working in rural Alberta if they can make more money working in the private -for -profit hospitals in the cities, why would they?
Of course their game plan is simple, their hero Ralph Klein used it. While we help the rich steal the peoples oil and tax wealth we need to replace the billions of dollars lost by making the stupid people pay with privatization. .
And when the NDP was in power they slashed the wildfire budget and cut the water bomber contracts. Soon after Ft. McMurray was burning and where was the NDP leader and caucus? In a bar in Edmonton partying, as the city burned, celebrating 1 year in government.
Much different than how the UCP is now dealing with wildfires right now.
No one is without sin or free from making mistakes in judgement!
I am so happy that we are almost finished all this electioneering and verbal garbage so we don’t have to hear or read the garbage been spewed by all parties!
Quinlan presents outdated information as though it’s current: “these people are fed up – they’re leaving in droves.”
Since Danielle Smith has been premier, Alberta’s landed a ten-year health funding agreement with Ottawa. We have 1,800 more nurses on duty now than we did before COVID.
And the disagreement with doctors is over. The UCP has a four-year deal with doctors, and it’s working to recruit and retain still more.
Quinlan, unfortunately for him, is stuck with last year’s Opposition notes. To get updates on the actual picture, check out NDPlies.com. It defangs their proudest arguments.
You are right Richard, come May 29th we will be lined-up to vote our beloved PC’s back in! Because we have figured-out after all those years of supporting them they have turned our economy into the envy of the country. Richard have you ever wonderd why there is so many people from the green province to the East of us, call Alberta home? Just go to a Stampeders game: 50% of the seats are draped in green Jerseys. Why could this be Richard? Hmm I wonder if its all those consecutive NDP governments that over time created a “Have Not” province. Yes Richard we WILL be voting them back in to keep our province the envy of Canada!