MacIntyre named to UCP Task Force on Rural Crime

An MLA from central Alberta has been named to a newly created United Conservative Party Task Force on Rural Crime.

Innisfail – Sylvan Lake MLA Don MacIntyre will sit on the task force with MLA’s Angela Pitt from Airdrie and Mike Ellis from Calgary-West, along with local municipal and law enforcement officials who will join them.

The announcement was made by party leader Jason Kenney at the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (AAMDC) Fall Convention on Friday.

In a release, Kenney says the aim is to address the current increase in rural crime affecting Alberta’s rural families.

“As I travelled across the province over the last 18 months, the overwhelming message I received from rural Albertans was that they are fed up with NDP inaction to address the escalating crime rates in their communities. The task force will engage meaningfully with Albertans on this critical issue, something that the NDP has been unwilling to do for more than two years now.”

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In the coming months, party officials say the task force will travel to rural communities hit hard by crime and listen to their ideas on how to make life safer for Alberta’s rural families.