As Albertans head to the polls on Tuesday, some voters will have empty office towers, bankrupt businesses and the province’s high unemployment rate on their minds.
Alberta has been in an economic funk since 2014, when a drop in global oil prices led to more than 100,000 jobs lost in the province’s dominant natural resource sector.
Chris Upsdell, who works for Employment Placement and Support Services in Red Deer, says jobseekers are “often at their wits end.” Notley had argued Alberta could get the “social licence” to build a new pipeline by implementing a carbon tax and phasing out coal-fired electricity, but a federal court said last year that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project cannot move ahead. Notley said she believes approval will be in place by May.
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