GUNTER: Overly complicated or not, affordability payments help build Alberta's autonomy abpoli ableg
But why lean on a federal agency? If Alberta is going to exercise its autonomy, the provincial government should exercise it at every possible opportunity.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
Checking the Alberta eligibility conditions will not be complicated — date of birth and the figure listed on either the gross income or taxable income line on your latest tax filing. Are the NDP right to express concerns? Sure. Remember that the province’s emergency payments at the start of the pandemic were so popular, and the government’s computer network so unprepared, that when hundreds of thousands of residents applied for the COVID-19 Emergency Isolation Support Program on the day it opened, the volume of online traffic crashed the website.
As a government software program, it was way more effective than, say, Ottawa’s ArriveCAN app, which was so complicated and wonky, it likely cost Canadian tourism businesses billions of lost dollars from tourists who were discouraged from visiting.
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