Rachel Notley

We must build on the past and look towards the future with ambition. Alberta has among the slowest wage growth in Canada. Under the UCP, capital investment stalled. We will reinvigorate Alberta’s investment climate. There are massive job creation opportunities - which the UCP is not seizing. Our proposals will create over 47,000 good-paying jobs and attract an estimated $20 Billion in private sector investment. Our strategy is to create an Alberta’s Future Tax Credit targeting growth in emerging industrial sectors, supercharge the Alberta Petrochemical Incentive Program we created when in government, use Performance Fast Pass to speed up the approvals of projects for responsible companies, consult with Indigenous communities on expansion of the Alberta Indigenous Opportunity Corporation, and Repeal Danielle Smith's job-killing, anti-Canadian Sovereignty Act. The historic incentives in the United States’ Inflation Reduction Act is pulling billions of dollars of investment south. Alberta must compete. Decisions we make this year will have long-lasting implications for Alberta’s future.

Every Albertan deserves a caring, and competent government. That is what we’re offering to Albertans. If Albertans choose us to form the next government, we will: pass legislation focused on anti-racism and race-based data collection, and establish an anti-racism office to help identify and address racial inequalities in the province, work towards a public service that is as diverse as the province it serves, set future generations up for success by developing a modern and inclusive curriculum, strengthen the Human Rights Commission, pledge more capital for racialized entrepreneurs, and enhance the federal government's current commitments. We must all work towards making Alberta a place where everyone can be successful.

All Albertans should be able to live in security and dignity. When we were in government, vital benefits were indexed to inflation. In 2019, one of the first things the UCP did was to cut benefits for seniors and vulnerable Albertans; the Seniors Benefit, Income Supports and AISH payments were no longer increased to keep in line with the cost of living. This cruel decision pushed already financially vulnerable Albertans further into poverty. Simply restarting indexing does not undo the harm done to thousands of Albertans pushed deeper into poverty, during the worst inflation we have seen in generations. An Alberta NDP government will immediately increase the value of these benefits to where they should be if they had kept pace with the cost of living, and then index to inflation from there. For an Albertan receiving AISH, that means an immediate monthly increase of $135. We will always be focused on keeping more money in your pocket.