UCP government not offering aid to those who need it most
By Lethbridge Herald on December 17, 2025.
Editor,
Seeing the raft of challenges Danielle Smith has dumped on people with disabilities, I can’t help but wonder why? Why in God’s name would she and her colleagues do these things? Don’t they believe in their hearts and minds that they ought to do good for their fellow Albertans?
But just look at what has happened this year: Funding removed from self-advocate groups, rent protections deleted, Alberta’s AISH income support reduced by $200 to negate the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB).
And now, with the passage of Bill 12, everyone receiving disability support is required to move to a sketchy new program that affects income, the right to appeal, qualification procedures, and diminishes legal protections.
It is easy to anticipate what will result: increased poverty, homelessness, and hunger. I thought the God-fearing members of the government would care more for people with disabilities.
But, apparently, they stopped reading their Bibles before they reached 1 John: 17-18:
“If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?”
Don McKay
Lethbridge
10-9
It’s a well known fact in our true conservative world that these Reformers are only interested in destroying everything our conservative heroes under Lougheed and Getty created for us and don’t show any respect for those they are hurting.
Wasting another $238 million on this coal mining stupidity and making impossible to help those who need help is just plain stupid, when they were the ones who created it, by destroying the protection Lougheed put on our mountains is a no-brainer, isn’t it?
They are nothing more than a branch of the American Republican Party who they admire and find it smart to promote their Right to Bare Arms and don’t care who gets killed by these maniacs, that’s how stupid they are, aren’t they?
The faster we get this idiots kicked out with Recall Petitions the better off we will be, won’t we?
It isn’t hard to understand why Alberta has the highest percentage of people needing Food Bank help in North America we are told is it?