Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley promised to balance the province's budget by 2023-24 as she unveiled her party's election platform Sunday, while also pledging to expand $25 per day child care, build long-term care beds for seniors and construct new schools.
Notley's date for balancing the books is a year later than what's promised by her principal rival, United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney, who released his platform a day earlier.
The NDP says the $25 per day child-care plan expands on a pilot project Notley started, and Notley said it will apply to every child-care space in the province. She also said 13,000 additional spaces will be created to meet growing demand and help women participate in the workforce. "I haven't been shouting, I haven't been stomping my feet. Rather, we have been working strategically to build a national consensus with determination and with conviction," Notley said.
"They didn't include the carbon tax in 2015, only to force one on Albertans months later," Nixon told reporters on Sunday.Voting day is set for April 16.
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