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Alberta legislature set to resume ahead of new budget
The Alberta government plans up to 18 bills including immigration controls, MAID restrictions, and a 22% increase in doctor spending amid petitions for a referendum on separation.
- Today the legislature returned for the spring sitting, with Premier Danielle Smith previewing a budget to be tabled Thursday.
- Schow said the Alberta government plans to introduce up to 18 bills, including one to create a provincial Project Delivery Office modeled on the federal Major Projects Office.
- Officials will also introduce bills affecting MAID, including one to prohibit it for people with a mental illness as their sole condition, with federal changes delayed until at least 2027.
- Amid circulating petitions, the spring sitting approaches its May deadline as a petition seeking referendum on Alberta quitting Canada circulates and Schow says lawmakers will appoint a legislative committee to consider petition questions.
- Health critics said they will push for an emergency debate, with Haji warning `The intent is to make the public health-care system fail so that privatization becomes the option`.
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Alberta to introduce legislation on immigration and MAID this spring sitting
Alberta MLAs reconvened for the spring sitting on Tuesday, and the United Conservative Party (UCP) says over the next few weeks it intends to introduce legislation on immigration, medical assistance in dying (MAID) and major projects.
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Alberta legislature set to resume ahead of new budget
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Alberta legislature set to resume ahead of new budget
The Alberta legislature is set to reconvene today, with the government’s new budget to be tabled on Thursday. Premier Danielle Smith announced Monday some of the first details of the budget expected to be filled with red-ink, saying the province would be boosting its spending on doctors by 22 per cent. The premier said her United Conservative Party government is working to make the health system sustainable, but the Opposition NDP says it has on…
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