L-R: Samir Kayande, Alberta NDP Finance Critic for Fiscal Responsibility - Shannon Phillips, Alberta NDP Finance Critic for Insurance and Pensions. (Alberta NDP)

By The Canadian Press

Alberta

Alberta NDP focussed on health care and affordability concerns in upcoming UCP budget

Feb 20, 2024 | 6:37 PM

Alberta’s Opposition says it’s bracing for next week’s provincial budget to be full of broken promises while failing to fix crumbling health-care and education systems.

Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative government is set to announce the budget on Feb. 29.

NDP finance critics Shannon Phillips and Samir Kayande say the UCP is not getting the job done.

Kayande says Albertans are falling behind as wages fail to keep up with inflation, and unemployment goes up.

He says he also doesn’t expect the budget to fix the No. 1 problem; the province’s failing health-care system.

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Phillips says the UCP’s projection for health-care spending for the upcoming fiscal year doesn’t even keep up with its own consumer price index and population growth estimates.