The Alberta government is pushing policies it never campaigned on, fuelling political consequences that are becoming harder to ignore

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Alberta is entering the new year with its politics visibly fractured and its voters increasingly restless. Voter patience is wearing thin as the government advances policies it never campaigned on.

There are several things I’d like to see change in Alberta’s politics and governance, even if I’m struggling to find the sort of starry-eyed optimism needed to make miracles come true.

Here are the ones that matter most.

1. I’d like the United Conservative Party (UCP) of Alberta to realize that its campaign to flirt with provincial independence is not only folly but a course that will lead to trouble at the polls. Voters are eager for a chance to express their frustration with UCP MLAs advancing an agenda the party never campaigned on, including an Alberta pension plan that would see the province withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan and the dismantling of Alberta Health Services, the province’s centralized public health authority.

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