This is a page from the 2023 Alberta general election.
Affordability platforms
Here's what the candidates in Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills, and their parties, are promising.Cell and Internet services
We don't have any UCP policies on Cell and Internet services.
NDP
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Bring high-speed Internet to every Albertan by 2027
Childcare
Food prices
SM
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Support our Alberta Farms and create abundance of locally grown food.
We don't have any UCP policies on Food prices.
We don't have any NDP policies on Food prices.
Fuel and transportation costs
SM
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Reduce fuel Taxes
We don't have any UCP policies on Fuel and transportation costs.
We don't have any NDP policies on Fuel and transportation costs.
Pensions
We don't have any UCP policies on Pensions.
NDP
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Keep Alberta in the Canada Pension Plan, and pass legislation preventing future governments from withdrawing from CPP
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Expand private workplace pensions
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Return to a joint-governance model for public pensions
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Allow public school teachers to leave AIMCo
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Remove the Finance Minister's power to direct investment decisions at AIMCo
Poverty and the minimum wage
We don't have any UCP policies on Poverty and the minimum wage.
NDP
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Index the minimum wage to inflation
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Permanently index benefits to inflation
Public transit
Seniors' benefits
We don't have any UCP policies on Seniors' benefits.
NDP
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Immediately increase the Seniors Benefit, Income Supports, and AISH payments to match inflation since 2019, then index them to inflation
Tax measures and rebates
Utilities
We don't have any UCP policies on Utilities.
NDP
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Investigate electricity prices to improve competitiveness, reliability, and affordability in the long-term
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Implement a 12 cents/kWh rate cap from to prevent price spikes from July to September