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The NDP’s health-care platform has a acknowledged objective to permit one million or extra Albertans to have entry to a doctor inside a day or two, by hiring extra health-care staff and well being specialists in addition to different enhancements that may price a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars}.
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They are saying this will probably be carried out by not growing private earnings taxes or introducing a provincial gross sales tax. So as to finance these prices, it should require both will increase in company taxes that may discourage funding in companies or huge debt to be paid for by future generations of taxpayers.
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They have to be trustworthy with us about these realities.
Murray Hunter, Calgary
Transit trumps handouts for the rich
Re: Inexperienced Line mission misplaced in occasion centre hype, Opinion, Mat 5
In fact George Brookman is against the Inexperienced Line: he has “little question it should generate losses.” Think about, utilizing tax cash to subsidize public transit.
George requested his buddies and so they all know the occasion centre is a superb concept, “and there’s a good likelihood it should generate income for the town.” Think about utilizing tax cash to subsidize million-dollar gamers and billionaire house owners.
Rob Butler, Calgary
Senate seat distribution is unfair
Western Canada is under-represented within the Senate. Altogether we now have solely 24 Senate seats. The Atlantic provinces, with a smaller inhabitants and smaller geographic space, have 30 seats. Ontario and Quebec have 24 seats every.
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One of many authentic functions of the Senate was to allow honest regional illustration. It will be finest if we lump Ontario and Quebec collectively within the Senate as a area known as Central Canada, with 16 seats for Quebec and 17 for Ontario. The Canadian Structure must be adjusted for honest play to occur right here.
I say 33 seats for Western Canada, 33 for Central Canada, and 33 for the Maritimes, with two seats for every of the territories. The present distribution is giving Quebec and Ontario every a giant fats and biased head.
Sean Murray, Victoria
UCP made a mistake with Smith
The UCP made an enormous mistake by choosing Danielle Smith to be its chief. I say that as a UCP member and a small-business proprietor.
We might have had an skilled, pragmatic, and centrist premier like former finance minister Travis Toews, who would have moved our province ahead, however no, the right-wing populist MAGA “base” wished their Tucker Carlson/Donald Trump/Sarah Palin determine.
Smith’s views haven’t modified since she was a radio host and columnist, and if she succeeds in getting re-elected, she is going to go proper again to her excessive agenda, which incorporates non-public well being care, lobbying for Freedom Convoy criminals to get a free cross, kicking out the RCMP, taking our pensions to create a provincial income company, giving billionaire NHL crew house owners just a few hundred million extra in taxpayer {dollars}, and no matter else her company lobbyists ask her to do.
Don’t let her idiot you once more.
Bob Buchan, Calgary