The Alberta Social Credit Party

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The Alberta Social Credit Party

• A Proud Past
• A Promising Future

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A Proud Past

• Eliminated Albertas debt
• Established Credit Unions and ATB
• Encouraged local ownership and control of
  hospitals, schools and utilities
• Built highways and telecommunications
• Electrified the province
• Built Jubilee Auditoriums

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A Promising Future

• Education that meets the needs of students
  employers
• First class service in health care
• A better share of energy resource wealth
• Reasonably priced utilities
• Affordable housing
• Alberta business owned by Albertans
• A pristine environment

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Education that meets the needs of students and
employers

• Consult with business and the public sector to
  determine their requirements for professional and
  skilled workers over the next ten years
• Meet representatives of our post-secondary
  institutions and develop a plan to provide the
  necessary facilities and instructors to educate
  these workers

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First class service in health care

• Develop a plan to reduce waiting times and
  increase service levels comparable to the best
  health care systems in the world
• Train many more doctors, nurses, and other
  medical personnel
• Provide grants to medical students who commit to
  work in Albertas high-need areas after graduation

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A better share of energy resource wealth for all
Albertans

• Increase size of Heritage Trust Fund and pay
  annual dividend from earnings
• Limit number of permits issued for oil sands
  development
• Require bitumen to be upgraded in Alberta
• Build upgrading plants near Ft. McMurray, Grand
  Prairie, Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary and
  Lethbridge

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Reasonably priced utilities

• Regulate electric power and gas industries to
  provide abundant availability of energy supplies
  at competitive prices
• Instead of spending 14 billion for power lines
  from Wabumun to southern Alberta, use these funds
  to equip 700,000 houses with solar electric
  systems

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Affordable housing

• Cap annual rent increases to Albertas annual
  rate of inflation
• Eliminate education tax for low-income property
  owners
• Help organize and support cooperative housing
  projects
• Encourage Federal Government to reinstate the
  MURB (Multi-Unit Residential Building) program

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Alberta business owned by Albertans

• Support establishment of cooperatives so that
  producers and consumers could gain control over
  the multi-million dollar process of bringing
  goods and services to the consumer
• Direct the Alberta Treasury Branch to provide the
  capital Albertans need

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A pristine environment

• Ensure that our water resources are conserved for
  future generations
• Restore control over environmental regulations
• Limit extraction of coal-bed methane
• Reject use of nuclear power in Alberta until
  environmental and safety concerns are addressed

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So R U READY for

• education that meets the needs of students and
  employers?
• first class service in health care?
• a better share of energy resource wealth?
• reasonably priced utilities?
• affordable housing?
• Alberta business owned by Albertans?
• a pristine environment?

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Then you are ready to

• Vote Social Credit