COVID-19 Response
Jason Kenney and the UCP have failed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic properly. The Premier has a duty to keep Albertans safe. Instead, he went missing as the second wave of the deadly virus descended on the province.
We all want to avoid closures, but Jason Kenney is failing to take action that will help keep Albertans safe and our economy running. In response, the Alberta NDP are developing policies and recommendations to properly address the greatest public health threat Alberta has likely ever faced. Read the policies below, provide feedback and check back often for updates.
If you have ideas on how to keep Alberta safe and protect our economy please let us know.
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Call for the UCP Government to Present Proactive, Transparent Plan For COVID Variants
Albertans need Premier Jason Kenney to present a proactive and transparent plan to respond to emerging variants of COVID-19, which have spread rapidly in several other countries.
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Immediate Supports for New Small Businesses So They Can Make It Though the Second Shutdown
Alberta’s NDP with the input from the owners of new small businesses and sole proprietors are calling on the UCP Government to provide critical supports to help them survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Supports for New Small Businesses
Safe Schools, Successful Students Addendum: A Plan for 2021
The Alberta NDP is putting forward this addendum to our Safe Schools, Successful Students plan. We propose four new concrete recommendations that will help schools reopen — and stay open — in 2021.
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Emergency Payment Program to Help Unemployed Albertans
Alberta’s NDP is proposing a program to help Albertans facing sudden unemployment over the holidays and to provide a shot of adrenaline to the provincial economy in the wake of new closure measures.
Emergency Payment Program
Provincially Funded Mental Health Sessions
We are calling on the government to help all Albertans get through the incredibly difficult COVID-19 pandemic by making five mental health therapy sessions available through the provincial insurance plan.
Provincially Funded Mental Health Sessions
Rapid Testing for Continuing Care Residents and Staff
The Alberta NDP and medical experts are calling for a twice-weekly rapid testing regime to be introduced in continuing care centres after 150 people died in those facilities in November alone.
Rapid Testing for Continuing Care Centres
COVID-19 Supports for Small Business
Small Businesses are struggling and the Government needs to provide support so they can survive this pandemic. That is why the Alberta NDP has released 7 point plan to help Alberta small businesses.
Small Business Supports
Creation of an Independent COVID-19 Advisory Group
Jason Kenney has lost the trust of Albertans. That is way the NDP Official Opposition is calling for the creation of an independent COVID-19 Advisory Panel.
COVID-19 Advisory Group
Province Wide Mandatory Masks Policy
The Alberta NDP is calling on Jason Kenney and the UCP government to implement a mandatory mask policy for all public indoor spaces.
Mask Policy For COVID-19
Safe Schools, Successful Students- 15 Student Class Cap
In July, the Alberta NDP Opposition released a 15 point plan so Alberta schools can operate safely. There has been tens of thousands of students and staff that have to isolate due to COVID-19 exposure in a classroom. Capping classroom would have reduced the risk of spread and have resulted with thousands less students needing to isolate.
Safe Schools, Successful Students
Six Measures to Help Trace and Slow Down the Spread
Jason Kenney is not living up to his own personal responsibility as premier, which is to keep Albertans safe. Alberta’s NDP Official Opposition is calling for six pro-active and non-restrictive measures that could reduce transmission and change the trajectory of Alberta’s case numbers.
Six COVID-19 Measures
Paid Leave for Healthcare Workers
Alberta’s NDP and representatives for healthcare workers are calling for Premier Jason Kenney to follow through on his commitment and introduce sustained sick pay.
Healthcare Workers Paid Leave
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