A prominent United Conservative candidate and a southern Alberta school district are accusing each other of spreading misinformation, or at the very least of being very, very mistaken.
During a candidates forum hosted by the Cochrane and District Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Peter Guthrie, the UCP candidate for Airdrie-Cochrane, said Rocky View Schools "outright lied" to parents, "to tell them that they received nothing in the budget."The letter does say, "RVS received disappointing news that the Alberta government did not include our division in the school projects approved for 2023 construction funding.
"Unfortunately, the Rocky View board and administration decided to play political games and they outright lied when they emailed all parents to tell them that they received nothing in the budget," he said. The letter explains, "We stated that 'the Alberta government did not include our division in the school projects approved for 2023 construction funding.' We acknowledged in the same letter that RVS was granted design funding and preliminary planning funding for a total of four projects."We were factual in our communication that we received no construction funding in Budget 2023 for these four projects.
"Now that the inaccuracies of the RVS communication have been shown, they should take responsibility for the misleading correspondence to parents."
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