Families offer guidance in trying times
MEDICINE HAT – Alberta’s families build for the future by instilling values, creating a financial foundation and allowing ideas and individualism to foster.
Since the NDP came to power in 2015, I have dedicated considerable time to listening to Albertans about our economy, culture and future as a province. By engaging families just like yours at town halls, public events and basketball and hockey games, I have had the opportunity to listen to many new and innovative ideas.
What is overwhelmingly evident is that Albertans are deeply concerned about the NDP’s deliberate attack on our economy. The accumulation of record debt and deficits means that interest payments will top $2.3 billion annually by 2019. At a time when over 84,000 good, full-time jobs have fled the province and families are buckling down to save, it is inexcusable for our government to show no restraint. Albertans are equally upset with the NDP’s orchestrated changes to our culture, values and education system.
When I stood in the Legislature, and listened to the NDP announce a cap on oil sands production, more and more spending and tax increases and new bureaucrats being hired to centralize our health care system, I immediately knew these decisions would affect Alberta families and communities in a negative way. It actually hurts to sit at a community meeting and hear a hardworking mother of two kids tell me she cannot find a job, despite years of searching.