For those of you that I have visited in the Calgary-Edgemont area, this is what I commonly hear that matters to you and what you want our government to do:
Responsible Leadership
Affordability
Health Care
Energy, Environment, Economy
Education
Support for all Albertans
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Allen Schultz
AP candidate for Calgary-Edgemont
Affordability
Cell and Internet services
Allen Schultz's promise
Continue Alberta's commitment of Universal High Speed Internet
One of the key components to fight inflation is increasing productivity. Governments can and should be more proactive by adopting policies that more directly promote productivity-enhancing activities.
Productivity is not about working longer and harder. Productivity also applies to innovation and growth in product development.
R&D and technical services relies heavily on the internet. If rural communities are not participants on the internet, they are not part of Alberta's growth in productivity.
Having rural communities participating in new growth areas such as technology also lends itself to improving affordability. Many of the urban centres are having issues with affordable living conditions. Newly minted professionals will have a harder time to establish themselves in urban centres and rural areas presents an opportunity for these professionals to be productive in an affordable way as well as contributing to improving these small communities.
The "Universal High Speed Internet" has been discussed already. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/making-connections-a-look-at-alberta-s-plan-for-universal-high-speed-internet-access-1.6389142).
The issue is that the Alberta government is waiting for Federal involvement. Alberta Party will commit to improving internet access regardless of the Federal foot dragging.
Fuel and transportation costs
Allen Schultz's promise
Repatriate the carbon Levy and distribute the proceeds back to Albertans
Poverty and the minimum wage
Allen Schultz's promise
Increasing the support for those on income supports to ensure a living wage (indexed to inflation)
Tax measures and rebates
Allen Schultz's promise
Cutting taxes for low income Albertans by increasing the personal exemption for those making less than $50,000
Climate Change & the Environment
Energy generation
Allen Schultz's promises
Reform the regulated rate for electricity and natural gas
Establish electricity generation as an export product by modernizing the transmission grid, creating strategic electrical interties, and developing storage solution
Remove barriers that inhibit renewable energy source expansion including hydrogen, wind, solar and nuclear
Green construction and retrofits
Allen Schultz's promise
Create an industry funded reclamation strategy for renewable energy projects
Land
Allen Schultz's promises
Timely, transparent reporting of violations of environmental conditions
Enforcement of rules and regulation for well clean up(polluter pays) and conditions of licences
No new coal mining on the Eastern Slopes
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Allen Schultz's promises
Collaborate with industry and stakeholders to set targets for emission reductions
Establish a long term pricing strategy for Carbon sequestration in collaboration with the federal government
Water
Allen Schultz's promise
A “water first” perspective will be applied to projects
Education
K-12 funding
Allen Schultz's promises
A freeze on funding for Private and Charter Schools
Adopt a new funding model that responds to dynamic changes in classrooms
Learning needs
Allen Schultz's promises
Adopt class size recommendations (k-3: 17, 4-6: 23, 7-9: 25, 10-12: 27)
Commit to identify learning challenges in pre-school children and properly fund the assistance required
In collaboration with stakeholders including teachers and students create a non-partisan curriculum based on best practices
Post-secondary costs and tuition
Allen Schultz's promise
Lower the costs of post secondary and training by 50% over 5 years
School construction and upgrades
Allen Schultz's promise
Develop a province wide, priority based infrastructure plan for schools
Student mental health
Allen Schultz's promises
Resource preventative wellness programs for students and teachers
Fund access to mental health supports and therapy
Health & Healthcare
Drugs and addiction
Allen Schultz's promise
Develop a comprehensive harm reduction strategy to augment addiction recovery and suicide prevention
Health staffing
Allen Schultz's promise
Collaborate with Dr’s, Nurses, Paramedics and other allied health workers to improve working conditions and retain staff
- Mental health supports
- address burnout and mental strain root causes
Mental health
Allen Schultz's promise
Mental health is health care and should be funded as such
Primary care
Allen Schultz's promises
Fund a plan to ensure every Albertan has access to a family physician
Invest in prevention to keep Albertan’s out of acute care
De-centralize decision making and invest any new money for more front line resources
Rural healthcare
Allen Schultz's promise
Create a rural/Indigenous Pre-Med program
Seniors' health and services
Allen Schultz's promises
Enhanced support for seniors and community housing operators.
Adopt and fund a minimum 4hours of care for assisted living and higher
Collaborate with senior housing industry and continuing and long term care providers to implement innovation and efficiencies.
Develop a caregiver tax credit to support in home care services provided by family
Develop caregiver Income supports to offset lost earnings when their focus must shift away from regular employment as care support
Create a plan to fund tenant supports that allow individuals to maintain housing and wellness as independently as possible
Move the responsibility for home care to the seniors ministry so we can focus on preventative care and keeping them in as independent setting as possible
An integrated, wholistic, person-centered system where all components work together to provide the right support, in the right place, at the right time
Training
Allen Schultz's promises
Double the seats for all allied health professional training in Alberta
Increase residency spaces for both foreign trained and Canadian trained Doctors
Improve financial incentives for:
- Family medicine doctors and medical practitioners
- Rural doctors and medical practitioners
Create more efficient certification pathways for foreign trained health care workers
Allow Nurse Practitioners and others to be realizing their full scopes of practice in a team environment by reforming billing rules
Address EMS staffing issues to resolve response times
Disability Supports
Allen Schultz's promises
Improve access to training for Disability support workers
Implement the recommendations from the PDD review in collaboration with community service groups and families
Improve system access and supports for individuals and their families
Housing & Homelessness
Affordable housing
Allen Schultz's promise
A long term commitment to invest in affordable housing in partnership with Municipal and Federal government
Home purchases and ownership
Allen Schultz's promise
Introduce a residential property tax credit
Jobs & the Economy
Agriculture
Allen Schultz's promises
Establish an Agriculture Innovations fund for research and seed funding
Incentivize investments in processing, and other secondary agricultural industries
Invest in crop and animal sciences with industry partners to support innovation in yields, irrigation, land management practises, climate resistance and technology
Incentivize local food production
Collaborate with farmers and ranchers to review and modernise the Agriculture Financial Service Corporation and Crop Insurance Plan
Arts and entertainment
Allen Schultz's promise
Arts and entertainment including film and Television by expanding tax incentives and making strategic investments
Oil & petrochemicals
Allen Schultz's promises
Commit all TIER funding to projects
Align all government Policy and regulations and streamline the administrative burden
Work with the Pathways Alliance to assist the oil and gas industry to achieve their goals in reducing carbon emissions.
The Pathways Alliance commitments can be further researched at their website: https://pathwaysalliance.ca
Research and development
Allen Schultz's promises
A commitment to making our Post-secondary institutions leaders in research and development
In collaboration with industry create a strategic plan for the life science sector
Retention
Allen Schultz's promise
Create education and training opportunities for sustainable workforce
Startups and small businesses
Allen Schultz's promise
Partner with municipalities to attract IT, data and knowledge based industry
Tourism
Allen Schultz's promise
Support growth in tourism by ensuring the provincial levy is used solely for marketing and funding export ready tourism projects
Society & Government
Budgets
Allen Schultz's promise
Public tax dollars must be used as efficiently as possible
Government ethics
Allen Schultz's promises
Listen to Albertans that the road to good governance is not found on the shoulders of extremism and polarized politics
Public business should be conducted in public and that the rule of law must be obeyed by those in power
Collaborate with all forms of government from municipal to federal
Policing
Allen Schultz's promises
Keep the RCMP. There is no need to implement a new provincial police force.
Increase funding to the justice system to employ judges and prosecutors to reduce the backlog and ensure that policing is not a catch and release program.
Reconciliation
Allen Schultz's promises
Respect for Indigenous lands and perspectives first
We will seek to first listen and then understand the issues and challenges faced by the First Nations and Metis population in Alberta
We will create opportunities with First Nations and Metis to improve quality of life, education, healthcare and economic conditions based on those learnings
Social services
Allen Schultz's promise
Seek prevention as well as treatment (“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults” (Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895) )
Biography
submitted by the candidate or their team
Allen has listened to Albertans that the road to good governance is not found on the shoulders of extremism and polarized politics.
Allen would like to represent an Open, Respectful and Collaborative Government that you can trust.
Allen would like to represent an Open, Respectful and Collaborative Government that you can trust.
Allen is a resident of Alberta who is passionate about environmental sustainability and responsible fiscal policies. He is an advocate for net zero emission initiatives and believes that transitioning to green energy is necessary for a sustainable future. However, he is also aware of the challenges that come with this transition and is concerned about the potential negative impacts on businesses and individuals, particularly those who may not be able to afford the costs of green energy adoption.
Allen is an experienced professional with a background in electrical engineering and computer science. He has worked in various industries, including energy, technology and business development, and has a strong understanding of economic principles and the importance of fiscal responsibility. Allen is also a keen observer of politics and believes that governments should play a role in promoting social capital, but not at the expense of fiscal responsibility and business growth.
In his spare time, Allen enjoys astrophotography and is an advocate for reducing light pollution. He believes that the beauty of the night sky is something that should be preserved for future generations. Allen is committed to making a positive impact in his community and in the world, and believes that responsible environmental policies and sustainable economic development can go hand in hand.
Reason for running
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The reason that I chose to enter politics is that I feel that we need to represent Albertans provincially and federally as Canadians. I feel that "Never gonna give you up" has been the theme of the past and we need to be honest with Albertans in our governance.
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