We check in weekly with a member of the provincial opposition NDP to get both sides of provincial affairs.
This week, we check in with Shannon Phillips, NDP Finance Critic and Lethbridge-West MLA.
We asked her about:
- UCP MLA Shane Getson’s comment suggesting that businesses cannot hire back employees because “they make more on CERB, eating cheezies and watching cartoons.” “To see a UCP MLA; a politician whose paycheque never stopped through the pandemic to stand up there and make fun of people, it’s kind of showing us who they work for.”
- Rising insurance premiums in Alberta. “These massive companies were coming to us out of Toronto pleading poverty are not actually struggling. The people who are struggling are ordinary Albertans, and that is why we said, ‘okay look, here is a compromise for big insurance companies. You can do a five percent increase per-year, but no more. If you cannot figure out how to continue to be massively profitable, as you are right now, then that is not our problem as a government.’”
- On the recent report from the Auditor General which says there needs to be improvements to Alberta’s integrated provincial hazard assessment system when it comes to natural disasters. “We need to be ready for these frequent and severe weather events and natural disasters, such as: floods, fires and so on. We are extremely vulnerable. We know this because we commissioned a report on this, a scientific assessment, which the UCP buried because it said the words ‘climate change’ in it.”
- We also touched on the province’s review of municipal assessments for oil and gas companies, her decision to run again in 2023 as well as her past in the sport of roller derby.
The full discussion with Phillips is below.
– Kenny Trenton, Trending 55 Newsroom
