Danielle Smith - UCP

Rachel Notley - NDP

🚑Healthcare

❌Wants to privatize Calgary hospitals

❌Chased away doctors, nurses and healthcare workers

❌Created family doctor shortage

❌12+ hour wait times for emergency care

❌Wants to introduce user-pay health spending accounts

❌Ballooning wait times for blood work

✅Protect public healthcare

✅Will not require you to pay to see a doctor

✅Improve access to family doctors

✅Staff up Calgary’s new Cancer Centre

🧭Leadership

❌Controlled by far-right Take Back Alberta fringe group

❌Interfered with justice system to help far-right hate preacher

❌Sided with Russia in Ukraine invasion

❌Praised anti-abortion, anti-gay Florida Gov. DeSantis

❌Crossed the floor three weeks after saying she wouldn’t

✅Most trusted leader in Alberta

✅Endorsed by prominent Alberta conservatives

🧾Affordability

❌Most expensive auto insurance in Canada 

❌Higher electricity rates

❌Wants to force Albertans out of Canadian Pension Plan

❌Affordability rebates end immediately after election

✅Freeze and lower auto insurance rates

✅Lower and cap electricity rates

✅Protect Canadian Pension Plan for Albertans

✅$10/day daycare by 2024

📈Economic Recovery

❌Highest unemployment in Canada

❌Sovereignty Act will scare off investors

❌ Wants to waste $366M on a provincial police force to replace RCMP

❌$20B R-Star taxpayer-funded corporate bailout

❌Dismissed diversification as a “long-term luxury”

✅Economic plan created in collaboration with former ATB chief economist, Todd Hirsch

✅Freeze income taxes

✅Eliminate small business tax

✅Lowest corporate tax in Canada

✅Diversify Alberta's economy

🌇Downtown Revitalization

❌Opposed and delayed Green Line LRT for over 2 years

❌No funding for downtown revitalization

❌Bad deal billion dollar taxpayer subsidy for new Flames arena

✅Start Green Line North leg to 160 Ave North

✅Invest in Calgary’s Downtown Revitalization

✅Invest $200M in creation of Calgary downtown campus

📚Education

❌Wants to defund public schools

❌Increased class sizes

❌33% post-secondary tuition increases since 2019

❌Eliminated summer student employment program 

❌Backwards new curriculum

✅Build 40 new schools in Calgary

✅Reduce class sizes

✅Rollback UCP tuition hikes

🏕️Parks

❌Kananaskis Park user fee

❌Tried to close 164 provincial parks

✅Scrap the UCP’s Kananaskis Park fee

🏔️Environment

❌Trying to remove restrictions on coal mining in the Rockies

❌Cut funding for firefighter training, closed 26 fire watchtowers, axed Alberta’s elite wildfire Rappel Team

✅Permanently ban coal mining in Rockies

✅Restore aerial firefighting teams

🚨Public Safety

❌Cut funding to Calgary Police

❌Selling off affordable housing to private businesses

❌Failed mental health and addictions policy

✅Restore municipal police and public safety funding

✅Build $205M in new affordable housing

✅Hire 150 new social workers