Rachel Notley formally launches the Alberta NDP campaign
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Rachel Notley is running to be Alberta s next premier, and I'm so excited to have her on my campaign trail! She's a fighter, a fighter for workers, a champion for the environment, and a leader who's willing to do whatever it takes to get things done. I can't wait to see what she does in office.
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We're also joined by Gurender Berar, Calgary Northwest, Amanda Chapman, Calgary Beddington,
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And, of course, we also have the fantastic two-term MLA, Irfan Sabir, Calgary Bullard
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And we also have Janet Eremenko, Calgary Curry.
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and Grinder Gill, Calgary Cross, and of course we have two-term MLA Joe Ceci, Calgary Buffalo,
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And Diana Batten, Calgary Acadia, just south of Glen.
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And, of course, we're also joined by Dennis Ram, Calgary Pagan.
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Finally, we have Andrew Stewart in Calgary, Hague.
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And the last of our incredible colleagues is David Cloutier in Calgary Shaw.
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It is such an honor to be running with you. For everyone here today, I just have
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one question. Calgary, are you ready for change?
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well I know I am court so Calgary I have another question for you are you ready for competent
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leadership from a leader you can trust you know not one it is the honor of my
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life to be running shoulder to shoulder with this incredible woman that we're
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about to introduce mind to court she's a mom to two kids and one big dog she's a
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champion for workers she's a fighter she got a pipeline built to tidewater for
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crying out loud and she enabled a four billion dollar renewable sector here in
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Alberto she's a leader she is competent she's incredible as the leader of the
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official opposition and she loves this province she is so many things to so many people but if
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you were to ask her she's just gonna say just call me Rachel friends please put your hands
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together for the next premier of Alberta, Rachel Mowgli!
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There's a sea change coming with that orange dawn
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The color's so much brighter when it shines on everyone
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my what an amazing crowd hello to all of you and it's so good to see you all
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what a bright beautiful day hello Calgary hello Albert
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Alberta. It is so great to see so many friendly faces all around. You know, looking around
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this room today, I have never felt more optimistic for the future of Alberta.
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My friends, it is time for an election campaign, and for the record, and just to get this out
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of the way, my name is Rachel Notley, and I am running to be your Premier.
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I am running to be premier because I believe in Alberta, and I believe in Albertans.
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In this province, we work hard, we act with honesty, and we always, always look out for
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And I'm asking Albertans, I'm asking them to choose, to choose a better future for this
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great province that we all love, because Alberta, you deserve better.
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After four very hard years, dealing with a healthcare crisis, an affordability crisis
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this campaign is actually about giving families hope.
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Hope in a time where it's been so much harder to find.
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And yes, it is also time for trusted leadership.
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You know, even if you don't always agree with me on everything, the fact is, you know me.
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And what you know is this, that I say what I mean, and I mean what I say.
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you know you know that i will work every day to protect your health care to protect your education
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your job and your future and you also know danielle smith and you know that she will tell
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you what she thinks you want to hear and then she will go ahead and she will do whatever she wants
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privatize your health care gamble with your pensions pander to extremists
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fact is it is just time for a better government one that is focused on what
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matters to you focused on our health care on our kids education on creating
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more jobs in a more affordable Alberta my friends I am running to be premier so
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that we can deliver that better future to all our burdens and you know what for
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me for me that future starts with better health care you know it's so
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critically important i have two kids as many of you may know and they're young adults now but even
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today i remember still with great intensity the anxiety that comes with rushing them around
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looking for urgent emergency care i think a lot of folks in this room have had that experience
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and i know that feeling of helplessness but the fact is today's parents are facing lineups
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all over the place beginning in emergency rooms and when that's happening you have that fear that
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your child is looking to you for comfort and the health care that they need doesn't end up being
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there no parent and more importantly no child should ever be put in that situation and my
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friends, I believe better health care means having hospitals that are open,
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hospitals that are staffed, where patients get beds that are in rooms not
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hallways. Hospitals that can actually conduct surgeries and deliver babies in
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our communities not 300 kilometers down the road it means healthcare that is
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there for the public for Albertans not for shareholders and places places here
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like calgary you know it means getting your blood work done on time not having to wait while we
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continue with failed privatization experiments it means it means that when you dial 911 the ambulance
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is on the way now not well after the emergency is over and most of all it means having a family
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doctor close to home. And we know that having access to that
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family doctor is the first fundamental step to protecting our
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healthcare. And under our party's family health
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We will take the pressure off of our acute care.
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We'll reduce the number of people waiting in pain and we will do more surgery sooner.
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Our commitment to you through family health teams is to connect you with healthcare professionals all across the province
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so that one million more Albertans have access to a family doctor.
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And most of all, my friends, most of all, you can count on me to make sure that Albertans
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are getting that access to the healthcare they need, regardless of what is in their
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And let me say this to you very, very, very clearly.
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I have never, ever, ever wavered on that fundamental commitment, and I never, ever will.
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Now, you know, my opponent in this race, Danielle Smith, she kind of wears her flip-flops like they're going out of style.
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And on health care, we all know that she has a very different idea of what the doctor-patient relationship should look like.
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One that she actually often refers to as the doctor-payment relationship.
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That's because Danielle Smith has actually put all her time and her effort in her career into tearing down public health care.
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She's gone on the radio to promote bogus cures and fake treatments for serious illnesses.
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She's spoken publicly about how getting cancer is somehow the cancer patient's fault and that somehow that person should have to fundraise for it.
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She's written policy papers calling for new fees for surgeries, co-pays for hospital stays and using your debit card instead of your health care card.
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I say this to Danielle Smith, you don't get to spend years and years trying to tear down the public health care that people rely on and then expect them to forget overnight.
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the things that your record matters you know and the things that you have repeatedly said
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written advocated for and proposed they matter and you know what you can sign as many
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cardboard cutouts as you want but albertans are not fooled they just aren't
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So my friends, if I am your premier, we will stop these attacks on our public health care
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We won't fight with doctors, we'll recruit doctors.
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We won't blame Albertans with cancer or heart conditions.
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We won't make seniors pay more for medical exams.
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We'll cover more of their medications and, yes, their vaccinations,
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because we believe in science and evidence, not conspiracies.
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And, my friends, we will not make women pay for reproductive health care.
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by investing in frontline workers and frontline services,
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the largest health care recruitment and retention campaign ever seen
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Public health care is one of the greatest gifts, greatest gifts, my friends, that we've
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ever given to each other as Albertans, and it is the foundation of our community and
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And we will do this by working directly with those on the front lines of our hospitals,
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our clinics and our ambulances, not tearing up their contracts or threatening their jobs.
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lead a government that takes phone calls from nurses not extremists
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one that builds the hospitals we need in places like red deer and south edmonton and puts family
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health clinics and communities all across this province and i will do this work with determination
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and with conviction and i will work every day to give you better health care because that
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so a better future you know it also means better schools
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it means building new schools in growing neighborhoods schools with more teachers and
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more educational assistance so our kids have smaller class sizes and more one-on-one attention
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our students our students will have a modern curriculum that helps them understand the world
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around them and actually prepares them to lead it because my friend Albertans
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they're actually asking for reinforcements in the classroom not the
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war room. My friends, a better future also means better jobs in a more affordable Alberta.
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With an NDP government, Albertans will see real action to grow and diversify our economy
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because it is not, as the UCP likes to claim, a long-term luxury, but rather diversification
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We won't pit the environment against the economy, that doesn't get us anywhere.
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Instead we'll diversify within oil and gas, with more petrochemical refining and more
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ways to use bitumen, allowing us to make more energy products right here at home in Alberta
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and get more value for our resources right here at home in alberta and we will
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and we will do that while cutting the emissions that threaten
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our planet and we will be creating jobs while we're at it
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because our party friends and we all know this our party supports energy workers and supports our
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proud legacy of developing energy in this province albertans
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okay oh there i'm back okay thank you our party has a plan it has a plan to attract
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20 billion dollars in new private sector investment and to create more than 47 000
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good-paying sustainable industrial jobs all across this province
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jobs that pay the mortgage and support families jobs that are in safe workplaces with fair
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benefits and better wages so workers can come home and pay their bills and speaking of those bills
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you know i know a lot of families today are sitting around the dinner table and wondering
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they are wondering when will things get a bit easier that's because this ucp government has
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actually contrary to what they like to claim spent the last four years making life more expensive
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they took the caps off of what you pay for your car insurance they've taken the caps off of tuition
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off of electricity prices and then get this by the ucp's own logic they have actually raised
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taxes and fees 145 times over the last four years. My friends, my friends, that is almost
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as many times as Danielle Smith has changed her position in the last three months.
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Look, here's what you can count on from us.
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We will lower the costs that make life more expensive for you and your family.
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We'll re-index and raise benefits for families, for seniors and for Albertans with disabilities.
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We will freeze car insurance, putting an end to the UCP's pandering to big insurance.
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We'll restore rental supplements and house another 40,000 Albertans who can't afford
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We'll stop charging people just to enjoy a hike in Kananaskis country and by the way,
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you go on that hike you'll be doing that near mountains that have absolutely no coal mining
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anywhere near them we will freeze university tuition so that a good quality education is
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within reach of all albertans keeping our future leaders right here in alberta and you know while
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While Danielle Smith talks about rolling the dice and gambling away your retirement security,
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We will make Alberta more affordable for everyone because that is what New Democrats do.
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Now I believe Albertans deserve strong and stable leadership and I know that this work
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begins with earning the trust and the support of those very same Albertans.
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Every day more and more people come up to me and they say, Rachel you know I've voted
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conservative for most of my life but a little worried about this Daniel Smith person.
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know I don't think she represents me and I don't think her values are my values so
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this time they say I'm going to support you I'm going to be voting in DP and I
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want to say I want to say I'm so so grateful when I hear that and so to all
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the same Albertans who are struggling with that and who feel the same way I
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say this follow our campaign give us the opportunity to earn your trust look at the ideas
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that we're bringing forward and look at the albertans who've stepped up and who've stepped
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forward to run for us i am running shoulder to shoulder or in some cases shoulder to elbow but
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you know whatever uh with an incredible group of candidates from a diverse set of backgrounds
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each and every one of them will be focused on what matters to you so we can build a better
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province together we are nurses we are doctors we are small business owners and business
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executives financial experts and energy pioneers heck we have the guy who helped develop calgary's
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economic strategy. A good guide I have on your side, I'd say.
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We are teachers, we are social workers, lawyers and farmers, parents and community leaders,
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friends and neighbors. This team reflects the best of Alberta. Diverse, educated, experienced
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the steady, the capable, the responsible government
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We will keep the good ideas from the last four years,
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but we will get rid of the chaos and the unpredictability.
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we will we will be there for you and for your loved ones in your time of greatest need we will
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work on health care cost of living and jobs with focus and with determination alberta you have a
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decision to make in 28 days, and you know, it's kind of a biggie. I want to thank Albertans for
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giving us this opportunity to show you who we are, to show you that we are focused on what matters
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to you. Let's create good paying jobs and a bright economic future. Let's deliver better education,
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better health care, and more jobs in a more affordable Alberta. Let's stand together and
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build a better future once again my name is Rachel Notley and I am running to be