UCP Platform 2023

Moving Alberta Forward

Alberta Job Growth and Diversification Strategy

Improving Healthcare for Women and Children

UCP on the Issues

In addition to our major platform points, we have been working hard to move Alberta forward on all the key issues. Search below to learn more about what we’ve been up to.

Created and released The Alberta 2030: Building Skills for Jobs strategy, which sets the road map for a re-envisioned post-secondary system focusing on high-quality education and the skills and training needed for Alberta’s future.

Post-Secondary & Skilled Trades

Healthcare

In 2019, Albertans were waiting far too long for the health care they needed. We took immediate action to fix the issues in our health care system. While progress was stalled by the pandemic, the results are now being seen.

Indigenous

Created the Premier’s Council on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, at the recommendation of the Alberta Joint Working Group on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Jobs & Economy

Launched the Job Creation Tax Cut and reduced Alberta’s corporate tax rate by 20%.

Energy Industry

Transferred the crude-by-rail program to the private sector, saving Alberta taxpayers $500 million.

Education

Post-Secondary & Skilled Trades

Healthcare

Indigenous

Created the Premier’s Council on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, at the recommendation of the Alberta Joint Working Group on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Jobs & Economy

Launched the Job Creation Tax Cut and reduced Alberta’s corporate tax rate by 20%.

Energy Industry

Transferred the crude-by-rail program to the private sector, saving Alberta taxpayers $500 million.

Environment

Announced its new Emissions Reduction and Energy Development (ERED) Plan that will charts Alberta’s course for cutting emissions, attracting investment and growing the economy. For decades, Albertans have stepped up to deliver responsible, ethically produced energy, helping mitigate global energy crises and leading in technology innovation to reduce emissions.

Justice & Public Safety

Started the Rural Alberta Provincial Integrated Defence (RAPID) Response Team. Members of the Sheriff Highway Patrol and Fish and Wildlife Enforcement Services (FWES) have been given additional authorities to help fight rural crime.

Mental Health & Addiction

Eliminated the $40 per day user fee. This change, for example, has saved patients participating in 60-day publicly funded residential addiction treatment roughly $2,400 that they would have paid out of pocket.

Affordability

Through the $2.8 billion Affordability Action Plan, your UCP government delivered around $900 per household in broad-based inflation when the province needed it most, including suspending the provincial fuel tax, indexing personal income tax, and providing up to $500 in electricity rebates.

Electricity & Gas

Delivered relief on electricity bills when Albertans needed it most, providing $500 from July 2022 to April 2023. Put in place permanent natural gas price protection, offering Albertans price certainty by ensuring they will not pay above $6.50 per gigajoule for their household natural gas.

Immigration

Made more newcomer entrepreneurs eligible for the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP) by reducing the minimum investment for the Rural Entrepreneurship Stream of the AAIP.

Multiculturalism

Established the Premier’s Council on Multiculturalism. This council will provide a platform for Albertans that represent marginalized communities and will ensure their voices are heard and their ideas for possible solutions to their issues are considered.

Ukraine

Created multiple funding streams and services to help Ukrainian evacuees settle in Alberta. We created a hot line in which evacuees can call and receive vital information in English, Ukrainian and Russian regarding the numerous amount of services available to them.

Children & Families

Struck a made-in-Alberta child-care deal with the federal government that gives the province the flexibility to meet the unique needs of Alberta families, helps drive economic recovery and supports working parents by lowering child-care fees.

Protecting Albertans from Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault

Brought in Clare’s Law, an Act that gives people who feel at risk of domestic violence a way to get information about their partners so they can make informed choices about their safety. Alberta’s version of Clare’s Law is named after a young woman killed by an ex-boyfriend with a history of violence against women.

Agriculture & Irrigation

Stood up for farmers and repealed the NDP’s disastrous Bill 6. The Farm Freedom and Safety Act was introduced to bring forward changes to support the unique nature of the farm and ranch business.

Culture & Inclusivity

Designated Sept. 1 as Alberta Day to recognize the anniversary and celebrate the province. Alberta Day kicked off the Alberta Culture Days celebrations around the province, supported by grants from Alberta’s governments.

Forestry, Parks, Tourism

Worked with Enoch Cree Nation and the City of Edmonton to establish Big Island Provincial Park in southwest Edmonton in the North Saskatchewan River Valley. This extraordinary park is an area where Albertans can experience the benefits of exploring the river valley now and for generations to come.

Infrastructure

Delivered on completing construction of the Calgary Cancer Centre, which will increase cancer care capacity and ensure that patients are receiving treatment in a state-of-the-art, world-class facility when it opens in 2023.

Municipal Affairs

Increased the Revenue Index Factor to ensure that municipal funding will increase at the same rate that provincial revenue increases, and that funding will increase by over $2 billion over three years.

Seniors Community & Social Services

Providing a total of $26 million in grant funding to hundreds of food banks across Alberta, supporting Albertans who need a helping hand.

Red-tape Reduction

Cut more than one third of the regulatory requirements and red tape since 2019, saving Albertans and Alberta businesses countless hours and more than $1.2 billion by reducing unnecessary oversight and redundant requirements and modernizing government services.

Service Alberta

Made life more convenient for Albertans by offering registry services onlines, including renewing vehicle registrations and driver’s licences, birth certificate ordering, and fine payments.

Technology & Innovation

Launched the Alberta Broadband Strategy, a commitment to reach 100% universal broadband access by 2027. Investment (provincial and Federal) into this initiative totals $780 million. As a result, 50 communities across the province are now receiving funding to build reliable, high-speed internet networks, with many more communities set to receive funding soon.

Transportation & Economic Corridors

Announced large-scale improvements to Deerfoot Trail that will save travelers about 900,000 hours while providing an annual economic boost of $23 million.

Treasury Board

Deposited $2 billion into the Heritage Savings Trust Fund - the most significant amount in recent history. We also legislated that interest generated will now compound to grow the Fund instead of being spent each year by government.