Conservative Values

Are they yours? Does the Alberta Government represent these values?

What are Conservative Values?

As we look at the Alberta government, the separatists, the religious right groups and compare them to Conservative values, there is a wide gap in what they are promoting and what Conservativism means.

Conservative Values: Limited Government

UCP Actions: 48 MLAs - 27 Ministers, 8 Parliamentary Secretaries and one Speaker 36/48 MLAs have positions that pay them more money than being an MLA.

Conservative Values: Less Bureaucracy

UCP Actions: Health care from one entity (AHS) to four separate entities. Book bans in schools. Telling educators that every time they deliver sexual education portion of the health curriculum they have to give parents permission to opt in. These are just some examples of direct Government interference.

Conservative Values: Fiscal Responsibility

UCP Actions

• Travelling out of country

• cancelling renewables,

• $280,000 new carpet in Premier’s personal office (6000 sq ft)

• Cancelling receipts for expense accounts.

• $100 million for Turkish acetaminophen (Tylenol is a brand name in Canada). $49 million still outstanding and MHCare is collecting interest on it. We put the information into an interest calculator at 2.5% interest for 3 years MHCare would have made $3,767,640.62 and that is a conservative estimate.

  https://hellosafe.ca/en/investing/compound-interest (this is the calculator we used

  

Conservative Values: Non-Intrusive

UCP Actions: Fired AHS board, changed the rules so that the DM would be the CEO so there is no separation between government and Alberta Health. Attempting to interfere in the Corrupt Care Scandal by demanding the former CEO turnover her notes and evidence. AG has to step in. This is just one example - Hospitals, Education, AISH, Seniors, Coal, Oil and Gas, Renewable Energy other areas where they have interfered.

Conservative Values: Accountable

UCP Actions: Private Surgical Facility Scandal - refusing to call a public inquiry. Setting it up so the inquiries report to Smith directly. Taking Teacher’s pensions into AIMCO against their wills. (See above for other areas)

Conservative Values: Expert and Evidence Based

UCP Actions: Refusal to listen to the experts on the dangers of Grassy Mountain coal mining. Refusing to listen to Drs. and Nurses on health care and gender affirming care.

Conservative Values: No Government Overreach

UCP Actions: Demanding the federal Government give Alberta pipelines and refusing to go to provincial government meetings to work on creating interprovincial trade. Education - book banning. Interfering in Municipalities (Bill 18, Bill 20, Bill 50)

Next week we will look at Alberta Values and what that means, how the Alberta Government is framing it and what you can do it about it. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

Until Next Time

Stay safe, be kind to one another. Our only purpose is to walk each other home in an honorable and loving way. We are stronger Together.