Notley attacks UCP in weekend speech
CALGARY – In a campaign-style speech to party supporters, Premier Rachel Notley labelled the opposition United Conservatives a party of narrow self-interests determined to take the province backward.
Notley noted that UCP party members, at their recent founding convention, voted to expand private health care, scrap the progressive income tax and have parents told when their child joins a gay-straight alliance.
She also pointed out that the UCP caucus members walked out of the legislature chamber 13 times rather than vote on a bill to better protect women and staff from being harassed at abortion clinics.
Leader Jason Kenney has said his caucus refused to engage on the bill because it was divisive game-playing by Notley.