Alberta’s NDP Opposition says the United Conservative Party’s latest budget is meant to buy votes ahead of a provincial election scheduled for May.
Speaking to reporters in Calgary — expected to be a key election battleground — NDP Leader Rachel Notley says Premier Danielle Smith cannot be trusted to follow through with budget promises.
Notley criticized Smith’s government for not addressing problems in health care and education in the budget released Tuesday.Story continues below advertisement The province is still short on health-care funding, while Smith and the UCP are trying “to convince Albertans that the health-care crisis is over,” Notley added.
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