Alberta Premier Danielle Smith aims to demonstrate her government's progress in rebuilding the province's healthcare system in the new year. Smith highlights the near completion of restructuring efforts, including the creation of four new health organizations, and outlines key goals like increasing family doctor access and reducing surgical wait times. She also emphasizes achievements in addressing energy market volatility, combating wildfires, and bolstering border security.
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is eager to show that her government can finally put the pieces of a dismantled provincial health-care system back together again in the new year.
She also said Alberta had to contend with more than 1,200 wildfires, including one that devastated the mountain town of Jasper in July. And a provincial law unfurled partisan banners at the local level. In upcoming municipal elections in October, municipalities will be forced to hand count ballots, among other changes recasting the political landscape.
In that vein, the government also passed legislation restricting transgender medical care that now faces a court challenge. About 250,000 public sector workers are still in collective bargaining talks with government employers.
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