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 NDP focused on health care and affordability concerns in upcoming UCP budget

Feb 20, 2024 | 4:14 PM

Alberta’s Official 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 said the UCP is not getting the job done.

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

He said 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 said 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.