By rdnewsNOW staff

Campaign Trail: Party leaders talk foreign oil, flood protection, and fluoride

Mar 22, 2019 | 9:37 AM

Friday is day four on the campaign trail for the April 16 Alberta election.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley announced in Calgary that if re-elected as premier she will invest $1 billion from Alberta’s Climate Leadership Plan to build new upstream flood mitigation infrastructure on the Bow River.

Notley was also scheduled to speak at 6:15 p.m at an event in Edmonton.

United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney was in Edmonton as well on Friday afternoon where he announced his party’s strategy — an inquiry — to go against foreign anti-oil special interests.

He said the inquiry would have the legal authority to compel witnesses to testify and would start with a $2.5 million budget. Kenney’s fight-back plan would also include a legal fund for First Nations in favour of energy development and a war room to take on opponents in real time.

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In Calgary, Alberta Liberal Party Leader David Khan announced his party’s plans to get pipelines built, saying, “Bill C-69 is deeply flawed and needs to be changed. Allberta Liberals will join with Oil Patch Leaders to demand specific amendments to balance economic, social and environmental concerns.’

“Alberta Liberals will cancel the NDP’s costly and risky oil-by-railcar plan. It won’t be fully operational until July 2020. The oil industry has already said it’s a bad idea. We don’t want Alberta taxpayers stuck with another multi-billion dollar NDP boondoggle.”

Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel made a health announcement Friday morning in Calgary where he stated that his party will push to re-fluoridate that city’s water. The plan would also be to work with cities with populations larger than 10,000 to do the same.

Freedom Conservative Party Leader Derek Fildebrandt released the second piece of the FCP campaign platform: Unleash Alberta Energy. It focuses on three main strategies: End the Carbon Tax, Pipelines and Production, Affordable Energy.