I went back and forth about responding but maybe its not a culture war, maybe some people give equal (or even more) weight to social considerations as they do to economic ones.
Your decision is between dollars and dollars not mine, but the UCP seems to be on a spending spree of late so your options seem limited.
If social policy is a fallacy then perhaps DS (and the UCP) could stop bringing their own beliefs into government. The recent disastrous failed roll out of the new elementary school curriculum is a great example of how government has the power to influence social values. Good thing our "overpaid" teachers mass rejected it and drove the government to significantly alter it. Our neighbors directly to the south are trying to pass this:
When does a theory become a fact? This bill claims to know.
www.iflscience.com
If you don't think portions of non-urban Alberta that wouldn't love this I don't know what to tell you. DS and the UCP pander to these people and would love to implement garbage like this. Our teachers shouldn't be the ones in the line of fire on these issues. I have a moral obligation to vote against the UCP regardless of if I believed the UCP was actually the better steward of tax payer dollars but they haven't proven particularly good at that outside of being during a recovery in oil price.
Just going to leave this here:
www.takingbackalberta.ca
"WHO WE ARE
Founded by David Parker in 2022, Take Back Alberta (TBA) is a grassroots movement built to advance freedom and transfer power from the ruling elite to the people of our province.
TBA is supported by a vast, grassroots volunteer network of freedom-loving Albertans from all walks of life."
Suspiciously absent any comment on fiscal conservatism, and whether you'd like to believe it or not these are the people backstopping a healthy number of UCP candidates but continue believing this is a dollars to dollars decision.
I wonder what boundaries they think we need on our lives.
