Government recaps accomplishments and looks to future in throne speech
Posted Mar 18, 2019 9:37 pm.
Last Updated Mar 18, 2019 9:42 pm.
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The spring session is underway at the Alberta legislature.
Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell delivered the speech from the throne on Monday to start the legislature session.
In it, Premier Rachel Notley’s government is promising to continue its work protecting public health care with its signature Bill 1 in the spring sitting.
The NDP government is also committed to defending Alberta’s public health care from an American-style system and diversifying the economy.
The speech also details how the government built 2,000 new long-term care and dementia-care beds and work towards the completion of 240 new or modernized schools.
“Your government will continue to make sure our kids learn in safe modern classrooms by moving forward with building, expanding and modernizing more schools,” Mitchell read aloud.
In response to the speech, the leader of Alberta’s official opposition Jason Kenney says the premier should stop campaigning and call the election.
He adds Alberta is in a job crisis with 43-thousand more people out of work compared to when the NDP came into power.
“Calgary has the highest level of unemployment of any Canadian city and Edmonton is the third highest,” says Kenney.
Kenney says on the issues that matter most to Albertans this throne speech is silent and this government a complete failure on jobs, economy, and pipelines.
Notley can call a provincial election at any time to launch the 28-day campaign which by law must be wrapped up before June 1.
