In this episode, Premier Sheyn Als is joined by her Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Services, Mike Eichenauer and Tourism and Sport Minister, Joseph Scow, to discuss accountability in the Alberta government.
00:07:03.720And I can tell you it was something that first, the first thing I did is I made Devin Dreeshan, our Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors, and then he went out and drafted a memorandum of understanding, I think it was within six months, it was before the last election, where with Saskatchewan and Manitoba agreed in principle to establish economic corridors.
00:07:24.820now we have had a change of government in manitoba but the idea behind it was to create a
00:07:30.180corridor so that it could be for pipelines or transmission lines or broadband internet access
00:07:34.340or highways or trains and so that is part of the the approach that we've taken we think that the
00:07:39.860first aspect of that is going to be these cross-border agreements that we're getting with
00:07:43.540our dear friends in saskatchewan uh nathan newdorf has an agreement an mou to work together on
00:07:50.100interties for electricity because we think saskatchewan is going to be the first mover
00:07:54.020on nuclear as well as create that last 50 kilometer stretch from fort mcmurray to laloche
00:08:00.740not only does that give an additional access point going all down through saskatchewan to a 24-hour
00:08:05.860commercial border crossing but it also gives our friends in fort mcmurray another way to egress if
00:08:11.940there's ever another threat of fire so that's how we've been acting on it there's more that we're
00:08:16.420going to do because i have a number of our mlas who go down south and are working on the ports
00:08:22.020to plane projects and so that is another entire economic corridor that literally would have us go
00:08:27.940i believe from texas all the way up to alaska so we we took your advice for working on it
00:08:32.660and i just want to thank devin dreeshan for his leadership on that
00:08:41.220okay the next resolution comes from the good people of cardston six sky are you in the house
00:08:45.780cars in six seconds what they're voting let's be another room of course mla is here on the other
00:08:52.420room uh and crickets wow it's hot up here uh you know what that's right they're all voting for the
00:09:06.020premier of course uh updated wording so protect agribusiness and federal from federal regulations
00:09:13.700that are harmful to agribusiness and the global food supply yeah and and on this one and i think
00:09:18.900you heard rj say it best last night when he said that bill 2c 293 if we need to pass the sovereignty
00:09:26.260act motion to block the federal government from interfering in our our business that's
00:09:30.500what we're going to do so that you should know that we're prepared to do that
00:09:36.420in the meantime we have a made in alberta labeling program helping consumers to identify high quality
00:19:09.940We don't want to create more red tape,
00:19:11.740which will essentially just lock in what we all know to be true anyway.
00:19:14.520So that's the reason why we haven't moved on that one.
00:19:16.620Okay. Resolution 16. Again, from the good people of Karsten Siksika. The United Conservative Party believes that the government of Alberta should protect an individual's right for their own health care choices and ensure individuals are not discriminated against for their personal health care choices.
00:19:40.500Yep. And again, done. That's what the Bill of Rights is about. Now, look, I mean, I know that there are some who say that we could go further and look at the Alberta Bill of sort of the Human Rights Act. That was my initial thinking behind this. And we'll watch and see what happens and see if private sector operators are discriminating against their employers.
00:20:03.500but i have to tell you my personal view is this and let's remember what happened the only reason
00:20:09.020why private employers treated their there's uh their workers the way they did is because government
00:20:14.940put pressure on them too government created the framework for government required the mandates
00:20:19.100government put in the restrictions and so we're just not going to do that because because i suspect
00:20:25.660that uh that any private business that did so did so reluctantly and we just want to make sure
00:20:30.860that any business knows that we are not going to do that to them again so if there's any additional
00:20:35.420problems that we see then uh then we'll see if we have to go further but we figure figured that this
00:20:40.220is the right approach and Preston Manning was the one who recommended that we do this instead
00:20:45.100because he thought it would be more overarching in setting the frameworks that's what we did
00:20:48.620excellent uh next one's from my friends in Airdrie East um affirming the family as the foundation of
00:20:56.380of a society in Alberta and the decisions regarding children should reside solely with
00:21:02.100the parents, legal guardians, and caregivers, upholding and protecting parental rights and
00:21:07.720authority in healthcare and education, and also ensuring that parents and legal guardians
00:21:13.580and caregivers have the right and responsibility to oversee the healthcare and education of
00:21:18.300their own children, including, but not limited to, the cultural, linguistic, religious, spiritual,
00:21:23.500and moral upbringing and heritage of their children.
00:21:26.160absolutely well we we believe with the intent of of this motion and we let me let me address it in
00:21:32.320in two ways so first let me address the issue of education we have already and this was uh
00:21:39.040done under the under the previous government we have already established in the bill of rights
00:21:44.240the parents right to choose the education for their kids so we've already done that it is in
00:21:49.600the school act it's reflected in the changes that we're bringing forward with the education act with
00:21:54.320the requirement for parental notifications on a social transition as well as the requirement for
00:22:02.640yes requirement for change for social transition as well as the the opt-in on anything dealing with
00:22:08.800human sexuality and gender ideology so that one i think doesn't have any exceptions to it
00:22:15.040where it gets complicated on health care is that um we just simply don't believe that anyone can
00:22:24.240make a decision about cutting off body parts or taking cross-sex hormones other than that
00:22:30.760individual and i know that there are some parents who want to make those decisions for their child
00:22:36.260when they're 10 or 11 or 12 years old and i know uh sometimes there are parents who who and i've
00:22:43.480talked to a couple of parents who I think are well-meaning and want to do what's best for their
00:22:47.100kids, but we don't think that a parent has a right to sterilize a 10-year-old child. So that's part
00:22:53.020of the reason. So I know the intent that you want. You want to be able to say no, but we're worried
00:23:04.340in some of these cases that parents are making decisions that really are the child's to make
00:23:11.040when they become adult enough to make them.
00:23:13.200So we're trying to find the balance between that.
00:23:15.780If we put this health provision in the Bill of Rights,
00:33:16.880When somebody is having a bad reaction to crystal meth, as an example, which is, you know, to the person who doesn't really totally understand addiction, that's the person who becomes very violent or is posing a danger to themselves or potentially other people.
00:33:31.320And we have to compassionately get the medical treatment in order to stop the cycle of abuse.
00:33:35.840So this is a multi-pronged approach in dealing with a lot of the social and civil disorder that, quite frankly, has been caused by, I can be very partisan here, by the federal government and in some of the decisions that they have made.
00:33:47.840Thanks for that, Mike. I think we can go on to Resolution 5.
00:33:51.380Number five. All right. Calgary Lougheed, our good friends there. United Conservative Party believes that the government of Alberta should protect Alberta's right to have access to goods and services using cash and the option to bank with the provincially regulated institutions that supply cash instead of digital currency.
00:34:08.960Look, guys, you won. You won this one. In September, the Bank of Canada said they would not be introducing a digital currency because there's no public support for it. So bravo to you. Yeah. And look, we'll continue to monitor this. If that ever changes, then we'll have to revisit this. But at the moment, I think you managed to make your views heard loud and clear.
00:34:33.080all right number six from innisfil sylvan lake the united conservative party believes that the
00:34:39.080government of alberta should ban post-secondary institutions from the use of race as a factor in
00:34:45.080any admissions programs or procedure look i have uh minister rajansani looking at this and and we
00:34:55.480we do have partnerships with the federal government to ensure that there are programs
00:35:00.200available to first nations individuals and so we don't we wouldn't want to to compromise those
00:35:05.320programs so that's one aspect that we're looking at but i think what i'm hearing here and i think
00:35:09.560there's another resolution on it it's this buzzword diversity equity inclusion that i think has become
00:35:16.840used as a bit of a bludgeon and a hammer i i think we believe that every individual should be able
00:35:23.480to be assessed on merit um in in being able to uh get into programs yeah
00:35:31.000and so the first step in trying to understand just how much official diversity equity and
00:35:38.200inclusion programming there is was bill 18. now you probably heard that uh the municipalities
00:35:44.920didn't like that much and the the post-secondary institutions didn't like that much but but one of
00:35:49.400things that it does is it says that anyone who is giving money to an institute that we fund
00:35:56.600all or most of they have to disclose what that federal programming is because what we suspect is
00:36:02.600happening is that the federal government is funding fifty thousand dollar dei grants all over
00:36:07.400the place and that is what is creating some of the concerns that you have so the first step
00:36:12.680is trying to get some clarity on what is actually occurring there and then if we start seeing that
00:36:18.920there's a an additional problem that's the lever that we brought through with bill 18 to be able
00:36:23.320to say you know what if you want money from us you can't take it from the federal government
00:36:27.000for this purpose so we've got stage one in place and we're and there's there's much more to come
00:36:31.960so thank you thanks for your direction on that yes thank you all right next one for my friends
00:36:36.760in bonnieville cold lake st paul the united conservative party believes that the government
00:36:41.240of alberta should protect an individual's right to privacy and confidentiality of their health
00:36:47.000care information premier all right and that is in progress one of the things that um we discovered
00:36:53.400much to our surprise is that alberta health services appears to have a monopoly on data and
00:37:02.120who is able to access that and the number one thing it should be that you own your data you
00:37:07.480are the ones who should know what your medical record says it should follow you you should be
00:37:15.400be able to determine who has access to it. And so we have the Minister of Technology and Innovation
00:37:21.520working on a proposal to amend Alberta's privacy legislation to ensure that penalties for misusing
00:37:27.640data by Albertans or violating their privacy is the strongest in Canada. So we've got a new
00:37:33.940ethics and privacy management framework that will talk about how we managed to do that. We believe
00:37:39.220that because you rely on us as a government to give you your government issue ID, you need it
00:37:44.480for driver's license you need it to demonstrate when you go voting you need it for health care
00:37:48.840access we because we provide that to you we're a custodian of it but it's your data and we
00:37:54.100shouldn't be allowing anybody to have access to that so that is more legislation coming forward
00:37:58.700in the fall and i i hope to get your feedback on that when it is introduced
00:38:01.900all right premier the next one comes from edmonton west henday it's a fastball straight down the
00:38:08.980middle you can knock this out of the park the united conservative party believes the government
00:38:12.620Alberta should require teachers schools and school boards to obtain the written consent of a parent
00:38:19.580guardian of a student under the age of 16 prior to changing the name and or pronouns used by that
00:38:25.500student done that's what one of the bills was that we introduced two days ago so thanks for
00:38:33.900your guidance on that all right uh our friends in Banff Kenanaskis you know it's great the we'll
00:38:41.740get that one back to you the united conservative party believes that the government of alberta
00:38:45.980should ensure the post-secondary institutions shall be places of free thought and learning of
00:38:51.980employable skills by eliminating all diversity equity and inclusion offices at all public
00:38:57.420universities colleges technical institutes and trade schools and all adult education institutions
00:39:03.580they are not places for indoctrination of identity politics reverse racism or radicalization any
00:39:10.380post-secondary institution that maintains a dei office policy or equivalent shall lose government
00:39:16.940funding of financial supports there you are yes so that's what i that's what i think the
00:39:23.260intent of one of the earlier ones was is that we want to make sure that people are being assessed
00:39:27.260on merit to to enter into these programs and we don't want people being indoctrinated through
00:39:31.980different means we believe in an environment of free speech free expression and so that's what
00:39:36.540But we are our first step, as I mentioned, let's get some transparency about how much of this is occurring.
00:39:43.040And if the federal government is leading it, let's let's make sure that that gets exposed.
00:39:46.700So Bill 18 was the first step and there will be more.
00:39:49.020You know, I think in the past, you know, previous governments going back years and years and years, they would just hand out grants and there was no level of accountability.
00:39:57.280So when I'm when I'm observing here is, you know, you know, we're sitting up here and the premier is doing a great job, you know, being accountable to you.
00:40:04.140but just so you're aware we're holding all these other institutions accountable that we give money
00:40:09.100to as far as the government that's right so it really truly is you and the grassroots that is
00:40:14.060holding all of these folks accountable so thank you your comments mike and premier uh next one
00:40:19.740innisville sylvan lake the united conservative party believes that the government of alberta
00:40:24.060should oppose the federal expansion of medical assisted in assistance in dying qualifying
00:40:29.660criteria to include those suffering solely from mental illness and oppose the further legalization
00:40:36.220of MAID as a care option for minor children. Establish protocols for provincial implementation
00:40:44.300of the federally legalized MAID program wherein healthcare workers in any facility
00:40:49.580shall not be allowed to present or promote MAID to a patient as a care option. The procedure
00:40:55.980must be considered a tragic last resort and only be discussed with a patient of legal age upon
00:41:03.020request by said patient or their proxy individual health care workers and private hospice facilities
00:41:10.140must have their rights or rather their rights to freedom of conscience honored when deciding to
00:41:16.220participate in administering MAID yeah this is all very very sound policy and i would say a couple
00:41:22.700things one of one of the approaches that we took in our province which i think is the right one
00:41:27.500is that any doctor uh who wants to perform or be available to perform this service is registered
00:41:35.500online i think there's 80 doctors who've signed up for it that's the way that we protect the rights
00:41:40.220of all of our medical professionals is that there is an opt-in if you want to perform the service
00:41:45.420not an expectation that every medical professional will and we we want to retain that and again you
00:41:51.180you know bravo to you uh the federal government keeps getting such massive pushback on trying to
00:41:56.340expand made they keep putting it off and putting it off and putting it off i think that the current
00:42:00.820plan is to look at implementing further changes in september of 2027 so it's been pushed out into
00:42:08.680the future we're waiting to see if they act on that i suspect there might be a change of government
00:42:13.240in the meantime and it will preserve some sensibility around this approach so uh do know
00:42:18.920we take what you put here seriously. We haven't seen that they have enacted this that causes us
00:42:26.220to have to create a separate framework yet. But if they do, we certainly will go back to this
00:42:31.300policy and do the same. Wonderful. Thank you. All right. Next, Calgary Edgemont. The United
00:42:36.880Conservative Party believes that the government of Alberta should support programs, eliminate red1.00
00:42:41.240tape and reduce taxes for the succession of the family farm to the next generation of farmers in
00:42:47.300our primary agricultural section yeah i uh i think the federal government has gone in the in the wrong
00:42:55.380direction in making it even more difficult to to pass on on a property with the the changes to the
00:43:02.180capital gains exemption rate i i haven't uh talked with rj about how that impacts the family farm but
00:43:09.620if i remember especially because family farms are getting such high value in this province
00:43:15.060especially being able to have a certain percentage of it or a higher threshold of transfer before
00:43:21.060those those those taxes apply that was something i used to lobby on when i was at the the canadian
00:43:25.700federation of independent business because we have our tax code tied to the federal government
00:43:31.140we we would have to work in tandem with them that's part of our agreement so we're we were
00:43:35.140looking for ways to be able to to uh to exempt but it doesn't look like we're going to be able to
00:43:40.660again one more thing that requires i think a change of government and and we'll be uh loudly
00:43:45.940advocating to go back to the rates that were before and then also addressing this issue of
00:43:50.580the higher exemption in the meantime we we support the feeder program which will allow people to
00:43:55.300access lower interest rates for feed for livestock we extended the number of contracts our contacts
00:44:01.780and increased the individual loan limit we've got eligible corporations that can have the agri-food
00:44:07.460processing tax credit which as i mentioned was the 12 non-refundable um on at least 10 million
00:44:12.740dollars in a project to build or expand a value-added food or processing facility in
00:44:16.740alberta it's going incredibly well we also increased lending for the next generation loan
00:44:21.780program which then leads to ag success and opens up opportunities for next generations
00:44:26.660and then we increase the lending limit for agricultural financial services corporation
00:44:30.740so we're doing what we can within our jurisdiction but we know that if we have a federal government
00:44:35.940that we can work with will be able to do so much more wonderful resolution 12 comes from innisfil
00:44:44.260sylvan lake and it reads the united conservative party believes that the government of alberta
00:44:48.500should prohibit any land use or development planning initiatives that would restrict movement
00:44:54.100of residents as per section six of the canadian charter of rights and freedoms yeah so so thanks
00:45:01.380for this one i i'm not aware of any jurisdiction in alberta that is currently doing this that said
00:45:08.260i know and i've read the stories too of a particular community in the uk that was
00:45:13.700charging punitive taxes for people leaving their community but this is one of the reasons why we
00:45:19.140brought in bill 20. now bill 20 allows us to strike down municipal bylaws if we feel they
00:45:26.340are out of scope or violate rights and freedoms we've had to use it a couple of times we had to
00:45:31.940use it because the yeah so so we had to use it when uh calgary told us that they couldn't lower
00:45:41.140their local access fee and they were charging outrageous rates to cal calgary ratepayers so we
00:45:45.700said sorry uh we're we're gonna strike down your your legislation we're gonna we're gonna impose0.57
00:45:50.820upon you a new a new rate and we also used it when edmonton council wanted to maintain
00:45:56.660all of the health care restrictions after we had left them we struck those down as well and so
00:46:06.020we also proactively put in place policies that said that they couldn't institute handgun bans
00:46:11.380at the municipal level and we also put in policies saying that their police services could not be used
00:46:16.660in the federal gun confiscation scheme so we are prepared if we need to
00:46:24.660to uh to strike down any legislation that we believe violates the rights we absolutely will
00:46:29.780not allow allow any municipality to prevent you from being able to travel between communities
00:46:35.220or from one city to another just won't happen hear here
00:46:41.940all right premier i'm excited about the next one all right the united conservative party
00:46:45.460believes this is what babcan and ask us uh believes yes our friends of babcan and ask us0.58
00:46:49.740prevent concerns about electoral fraud in the alberta's elections by at minimum banning except
00:46:57.440by plebiscite all use of any and all electronic machines and for tabulations for counting of
00:47:04.000ballots or any provincial election well we just started on this because as you know in the next
00:47:15.840municipal elections we ban tabulators we're going back to paper ballot counting at municipal elections
00:47:24.480we've also eliminated uh the ability to vouch for someone's address you got to show up and
00:47:29.520you've got to have ID. And we had to get our new electoral officer in place. It took a couple of
00:47:38.480rounds to do that. I believe it has now been announced. And so we are now going to engage
00:47:43.520in a process to do the same at the provincial level. I think that we have seen that the vote
00:47:49.480anywhere machines have not increased the speed with which elections are tabulated. And in fact,
00:47:59.500if you look at uh saskatchewan saskatchewan didn't have tabulators in that election
00:48:04.700and though it took a little while to get the votes in from regina and saskatoon i was watching it i
00:48:09.180think they had everything counted up by about within three hours so and then british columbia
00:48:14.540i think are we still waiting to figure out who the premier is there
00:48:17.980how it took a while didn't it so i i think that demonstrates it right there with the two different
00:48:23.020provinces we're going to go the route of saskatchewan if we get this bill passed in the
00:48:26.700legislature in the spring okay the next one comes from rimby rocky mountain house sundry
00:48:35.980and it says the united conservative party believes that the government of alberta should
00:48:42.220uh support the establishment of a digital bill of rights that outlines the following rights
00:48:48.380the right to privacy including the protection of personal data and the ability to control its use
00:48:54.300the right to free expression and access to information without censorship or surveillance
00:48:59.740the right to security including protection against cyber attacks and breaches the right
00:49:04.700to transparency including clear and understandable terms and conditions for digital services the
00:49:10.940right to access and ownership of personal data including the ability to easily transfer between
00:49:17.420services and the right to due process including fair treatment and legal recourse in the event
00:49:23.580of digital violations all right now i can't i'm gonna have to get some advice from my house leader
00:49:29.100because as i mentioned we know that a digital privacy bill of rights is coming forward in the
00:49:34.140fall i don't know if we've introduced it in the legislature yet house leader no has not been
00:49:38.780introduced yet well all you can say next week since i can't tell you what is in the content
00:49:42.620of a bill all i can tell you is that i know that minister nate lubish had a very close look at all
00:49:49.500of these provisions in drafting the data privacy law and you will be able to see what it looks like
00:49:54.300in uh before the end of this session remember we end somewhere around the last week of november or
00:49:59.020the first week of december and so you'll be able to see that in the coming weeks but uh all of
00:50:03.420these principles are ones that we want to build into our our new approach for protecting your
00:50:07.580privacy we have a big week two slate yeah we sure do all right the next one is from the premier's
00:50:14.060constituency brooks medicine hat how about we can we pop hold on this is a long one very long one
00:50:19.820and i i know that you are going to be debating it right after we're done here so i don't want
00:50:24.940so let me let me pause we'll skip over this one because i i think i would say i just want to hear
00:50:30.460a little bit more about the debate as you know we brought forward that last year there was a huge
00:50:35.740number of suggestions that were made about what we need to look at and we have looked at these
00:50:40.380different suggestions in different ways some of them we're doing through uh through different
00:50:45.340legislation like the privacy legislation some of it is through the education act some is through
00:50:50.060the health statute amendment act some of it is through the sporting act some of it's through
00:50:53.500the bill of rights some of it is going to require other standalone pieces of legislation and so
00:50:58.780i would just say that not everything needs to be done through one mechanism of statute and but i
00:51:06.220don't want to prejudge how your uh how your debate is going because i know that there's going to be
00:51:10.780i think a full half hour devoted to reassessing this motion from last year and then looking at
00:51:18.140it for this year so why don't we leave it at that and we'll move on to the next one
00:51:23.660uh what was the next one here from calgary law heat all right so the united conservative party
00:51:28.620believes that the government of alberta should enshrine the doctor patient relationship by
00:51:33.980protecting alberta physicians from undue third-party interference to neither compel physicians to
00:51:39.580prescribe treatments nor prohibit them from prescribing treatments and to include the right
00:51:44.460of physicians to prescribe off-label medications using their best discretion with the informed
00:51:50.540consent of the patient premier sounds like you guys have read dr gary davidson's report to me so
00:52:01.020these are the kind of things that that he has has counseled if i if you want to talk to him one of
00:52:06.220the things that he has said is that the normal practice is that when a drug is approved for use
00:52:12.460by health canada then doctors have the judgment to be able to determine if they want to use it
00:52:19.100for other treatments and um i think i've been told that as many as 75 percent of approved drugs
00:52:26.140have been used off label and no one ever used to interfere with that in the past so i've been
00:52:31.180watching some of the litigation in the us i think it was either nevada or new mexico the attorney
00:52:36.300general brought this forward and the principle should be that as long as the patient has given
00:52:41.340informed consent that there's a consideration of whether there may be drug interactions or
00:52:47.100allergies or side effects and that it is prescribed in a reasonable dosage the doctor should have the
00:52:53.900latitude to work with the patient to get the kind of medical care that they both jointly decide
00:52:58.860that's the principle how we put that in uh legislation is something i'm going to work
00:53:05.580closely with dr gary on but do you know that that is is a lot of the substance of the report
00:53:10.060that he'll be that that will be releasing in the coming months okay staying with calgary
00:53:15.660law he the united conservative party believes that the government of alberta should support
00:53:20.620a comprehensive bill of parental rights which ensures that all legislation will recognize
00:53:26.540and support parents rights to be informed of and in charge of all decisions to do with all
00:53:33.420services paid for by the province including education and health care you know and i think
00:53:38.700this might be like maybe this is a way because i talked to you about some of the complexities
00:53:42.540that we have around health care and why it's complicated to put that in the bill of rights
00:53:47.340but this might actually be the way that we could have a comprehensive bill of rights that goes
00:53:52.540through and states the different circumstances and states where there might be some exceptions
00:53:57.420so um let's go through the process get the bill of rights affirmed it does have the parental
00:54:02.620rights education we have the three bills including one that has a lot of of meat around the bones
00:54:09.420when it comes to a parent's rights to determine the education for their kids but maybe this is
00:54:13.740the the way that we provide the solution so that we can um affirm those areas of of choice and
00:54:20.860oversight for parents with without um unduly uh interfering with some of the other bills that
00:54:27.660we're trying to do which is the the forced care for those who are in addiction as well as making
00:54:34.140sure that kids are of an inappropriate age before they make decisions to their bodies that are going
00:54:39.100to be permanent so i'll take it away to see if perhaps maybe the solution on this one
00:54:43.340is a standalone parental bill of rights so um we haven't we haven't moved on we've moved on it in
00:54:47.660different pieces we're still sort of trying to sort out how we manage this health care piece but
00:54:53.500so it's work in process but um we've only got i think a part way to finding the answer to that
00:54:59.420thanks premier you can applaud the premier this is this is what common sense conservativism is
00:55:05.820all about right we hear that from pierre polyev and we certainly hear that from from the premier
00:55:10.140So certainly appreciate those comments.
00:55:13.780The United Conservative Party believes that the government of Alberta should encourage increased nitrogen production in our petrochemical sector to reduce the costs and improve the availability of fertilizer for Alberta farmers.
00:55:25.940100 percent. We are working on this. You bet.
00:55:28.200And we have a whole strategy around developing ammonia, not only so that it's available for us to use, but then also available for export.
00:55:35.180japan south korea and india are interested in getting ammonia so that they can do dual fuel
00:55:40.460combustion in their coal plants to reduce emissions so by uh we'll we'll make sure that
00:55:45.020that our farmers have what they need here first okay back to kairi law he did a conservative
00:55:50.460party believes that the government of alberta should ensure that teachers schools school boards
00:55:56.780and third parties providing services to kindergarten to grade 12 should do not should
00:56:02.940do not provide access schools rather do not provide access to materials of a sexual racist
00:56:09.820or abusive nature including but not limited to books handouts online materials and live events
00:56:17.420that are not part of the alberta program of studies yep and i should say yeah thanks for this
00:56:24.220i should have mentioned that that is part of the uh the legislation that we brought
00:56:29.100board two days ago is all third party materials have to be assessed by the ministry of education
00:56:34.700to make sure that they are age appropriate and so that's the the process that we will
00:56:38.460be going through as we implement that policy all right next up our friends from banff can and ask
00:56:43.900us again all right united conservative party believes that the government of alberta should
00:56:49.100not support the establishment of a solar farms in areas of the agricultural canada land inventory
00:56:55.660classes one two or three soils well we we we took the approach of for both solar farms and wind farms
00:57:05.180that is agriculture first and agriculture prime agriculture land has to be the principal uh use
00:57:11.100on those those high value lands there are some exceptions that can be made if there's a way of
00:57:16.620having them coexist and in some cases that uh that may be the case with agrivoltaics it's sort of a
00:57:22.780a new emerging area or grazing that can take place along with solar but we we're also working right
00:57:29.420now on setback areas so especially for wind turbines because we have heard we've already
00:57:35.100done a setback area 35 kilometers from our pristine mountain view scapes but we also have to develop
00:57:40.460a reasonable setback area from an individual's private residence so that a person who chooses
00:57:45.660to have wind turbines on their property does not impact their neighbor's ability to uh to to uh
00:57:51.180spray or enjoy their property so that's part and parcel of the full review that we did so thanks
00:57:57.020for your guidance on that we agree it's it's uh we've got to take an agriculture first approach
00:58:01.180on those installations excellent next one comes from edmonton west henday and it reads the united
00:58:07.420conservative party believes that the government of alberta should end provincial funding for
00:58:11.900supervised consumption sites look our approach is recovery first and uh recovery as the as the as
00:58:23.580the main objective of uh of anyone who's in the throes of addiction that being said there's some
00:58:29.180things that we need to do we need to finish building out our recovery communities we've
00:58:32.220got 11 plans there are already three that are up and running i think another two will be open in
00:58:36.940the next couple of months we've got five that we're doing four on first nations one with the
00:58:41.900metis communities we also have the compassionate intervention act that we will be doing that
00:58:46.860requires specialized facilities so that we can um hold individuals for treatment for up to i think
00:58:52.22090 days is the uh is is what we're consulting on right now and once we have those in place
00:58:58.620then we'll be able to have this conversation about what do we do with the existing consumption sites
00:59:04.060in red deer we are the furthest along we have therapeutic living units in the corrections
00:59:08.380facility we have a recovery community that is up and running with 75 beds and has been for a year
00:59:13.980we have a supportive council in red deer who said that we want to try a different approach
00:59:18.220and so dan williams as you heard in the accountability session the bear pit yesterday
00:59:22.780talked about the alternative more detox beds more mobile paramedic units more access to virtual
00:59:29.180opioid dependency program we asked calgary to give us the same endorsement they declined
00:59:34.540but we have a few more pieces that we need to put into place to make sure that there is a seamless
00:59:39.420pathway uh to to recovery and so uh we're we're prepared to act on this but we want to make sure
00:59:44.940that we're not uh leaving anybody without the support that they need to to get back into an
01:08:14.920So I'll probably actually get Mike to talk about this because remember what we have authority over versus what the federal government has authority over.
01:08:24.660And what we have authority over are those corrections institutions where someone is serving for two years less a day.
01:08:32.240And so we did a review to identify if indeed any of these circumstances exist in our facilities.
01:08:38.740And I believe that we found that it did not.
01:08:40.840and so that's this may be something i know some of you probably uh go to conservative party of
01:08:46.680canada events i think this may be something that is more relevant to the federal penitentiaries
01:08:54.280because if somebody is staying in jail forever or for 25 years they may have more incentive to try
01:09:01.480to move over into the alternative facility we're just not seeing it at the provincial level we tend
01:09:06.360to try to pass policies for things that we know are are occurring and i believe that in our review
01:09:12.200we're finding this just isn't happening in alberta yeah i i mean the only thing i would supplement
01:09:16.680to say you're correct premier it is it is not happening here in alberta uh obviously corrections
01:09:21.160does fall under me we did do an extensive review of this it's not an issue that comes up uh if you
01:09:26.280are a biological male you are going to a biological male facility if you're a biological female you're0.95
01:09:31.080going into a biological female facility and that's just the way it is yeah i think we're on the last0.56
01:09:37.560one sorry guys we're uh cutting into your debate but we're only about seven minutes over time last
01:09:42.120one okay last but not least calgary edgemont and it reads now the conservative party believes the
01:09:46.680government of alberta should ensure that social assistance support programs such as assured
01:09:52.360income for the severely handicapped or age seniors benefits and the alberta child and family benefit
01:09:57.880continue to be indexed to inflation yeah thank you we did we did make that change so that we
01:10:02.760do have an escalator so that each year those who are most vulnerable are able to see a pay increase
01:10:08.360as well as our personal income tax system it's also um so that you don't get pushed into a higher
01:10:13.960tax bracket if your employer is increasing your pay uh to stay up with the with inflation so
01:10:18.760thanks for the feedback on that and it's a wrap for us i hope that you enjoyed this and we'll uh
01:10:23.080be back at it again next year have a fantastic afternoon of debate we're looking forward to
01:10:27.720seeing the results ladies and gentlemen give it up for our accountability session requested