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Ariadne MacDuff 🇨🇦
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Wordsworth’s words have been rolling around in my brain a lot these days.
Happiest in the fresh air and amongst the trees.
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Here is a transcript of what the premier said.
When I came in, I thought, why is $40 billion of our budget in an Alberta Health Services agency we have no oversight over and then when you look at schools, we have $10 billion of our budget that we've delegated authority to 61 school authorities that we have no oversight over. We have another huge chunk that we give to universities that we have no oversight over, and on and on and on it goes. So I think you need to have a conservative vision for what you're going to do with the government’s spending. And our conservative vision is very different than the progressive vision. Our conservative vision is to partner with private entities, whether in the private sector, whether in the nonprofit sector, or whether it's charities, to deliver on the services that people care about. When you think about historically, where did all of the supports for widows and orphans come from? Where did the supports for the vulnerable sector come from? It started with faith-based communities. And government said, ‘Wait a minute, we've got a patchwork here. Why don't we step in to help?’ But in doing so, they have often crowded out some of that incredibly important nonprofit work. And so we're restoring that. We're finding a way to create a structure in government where you do have competition and choice and funding following patients or students or clients, so that you can create an internal market. So that is what I want to do, is I want to apply principles that I know work in the private sector to how we deliver government services, and we're making great strides in a lot of different areas. I think education is probably the greatest example in Alberta of how we do that. You have a choice of sending your kids to a public school or a Catholic school or a charter school or an independent school, or even home school if you want. We have different funding models for each of those. But in Alberta, we have parents willing to pay a portion of their own money to homeschool thei…
December 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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