Many are Called, Few are Chosen. It’s Time to Vote

It’s time to cast your vote for a very important election in the history of Alberta. Early voting ends tomorrow Saturday April 13, 2019. It’s so simple, you can vote anywhere in Alberta during these last two early voting days. Click here to find a location convenient to you. 

In the shadow of a struggling Alberta economy as a result of fallen oil and gas prices that has been the pillar of the conservative-led economy for over four decades before NDP took over four years ago, Alberta faces a choice this election to either continue with NDP’s socially focused policies with a pipeline-centered job face, a decentralized economy, wrapped with huge social support to the poor and middle class, or to go back to the arrogant conservatives through a re-branded UCP that have proposed to continue to build an Alberta economy dependent on oil and gas as their predecessors did for over four decades. The conservatives this time around are flavoured with some core members displaying suspicious record on their reception to newcomers, Muslims, and indigenous communities, and the ring leader, Jason Kenney himself having RCMP corruption investigation hanging over his head.

With multicultural communities the fastest growing part of Alberta’s population through immigration and birth, issues facing these communities are have rarely featured in this election because of the strategy employed by the NDP and the UCP campaign teams who have focused entirely on targeting conservatives, a shrinking group, politically active but disappearing fast as multicultural population grows. However, your presence at the vote count this election is critical to make a case to be included in any coalition going forward after this battle for the conservatives.

On April 8, 2019 Diversity Magazine and Action for Healthy Communities had an all candidate forum at Action for Healthy communities in Edmonton to hear what the political parties are proposing on issues that matter to you in the multicultural communities. Please click below to watch video of what the parties had to offer to multicultural communities.