NDP leader Rachel Notley would revive a consumer cap on electricity prices, consider a revamped provincial carbon tax and move more aggressively to introduce universal child care, she says. Regrets from her surprise ascension to power in 2015 include not pushing harder to diversify the province's economy, and moving too slowly to adopt affordable child care, she said. Thus far, the UCP government has been disinterested in co-operating with the federal government on its goal to offer universal child care for $10 a day by 2026. Notley said she would happily work with federal counterparts to make it happen — and pledged to adopt universal child care in the province even without any funding from Ottawa. Convention delegates also debated and passed resolutions, including support for universal child care, advocating for new provincial park fees to be repealed and urging government to create an emergency action plan to respond to the opioid crisis.

Source: CBC News June 07, 2021 00:04 UTC