Many environmental and social problems are better handled by bottom-up market forces, not top-down initiatives.
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The province went from having some of the longest waits for surgery to some of the shortest.
Other countries include the private sector as a partner in the universal health-care framework.
Young Albertans are paying the price today for the past 15 years of government debt accumulation.
Those who live in the freest jurisdictions in the world earn more than three times as much as those in the least-free.
Albertans contributed about 16 per cent of total CPP contributions but received only 12 per cent of total CPP benefits.
The province's post-1990 average per-capita annual income growth rate was barely one-quarter that of its 1960 to 1990 rate.
According to polling data, 80 per cent of Canadians don’t want average families to pay more than 40 per cent of their income in taxes.
More than 60 per cent of lower-income families now pay higher federal income taxes.
The province's average wait time for health care grew from 18.5 weeks in 2008 to 33.5 weeks in 2023.
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