Alberta Premier Jason Kenney campaigned in last spring's election on three words: Jobs, Economy, and Pipelines. Nearly a year later, those three items top the list of concerns for 52 per cent of Albertans.
In a change from recent years dominated by the economy, pipelines and health care, a CBC News poll finds four in 10 Albertans name the cost of living as the most important issue facing the province.Jason Kenney campaigned in and won the 2019 election on three words: Jobs, Economy, and Pipelines. These days, Albertans seem much more concerned about the cost of living.
After concerns about the cost of living, three in 10 picked health care as their top concern. Eighteen per cent mentioned housing as their most important issue. Albertans also give the governing United Conservative Party poor grades for handling these three big problems.— a year before the newly formed United Conservative Party catapulted to power — found pipelines, jobs, and the economy were top of mind for Alberta voters.
Albertans, says Brown, are not so much worried these days about whether they have a job — but "whether their job is going to give them enough money to afford their lifestyle." More than six in 10 Albertans somewhat or strongly disapprove of the governing party's handling of health care, building affordable housing and dealing with the rising cost of living.
The UCP's poor report card on inflation, housing and health care presents a potential opening for the opposition New Democrats.
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