Immigration: Cabinet Colleagues

Immigration Minister Dept: Instead of the Alberta Advantage, we are suffering from the Alberta Disconnect. For example, read the Herald editorial on education funding. FYI editorial board -providing adequate funding for education isn't a bailout, it's an investment in our children, according to Calgary Herald. We suggest Education Minister Dave Hancock is clearly disconnected from his cabinet colleagues, or he'd know that the good times are, indeed, returning. Alberta is not broke. There are more barrels of oil per person in Alberta than in Saudi Arabia. Trillions of dollars are being invested in our oilsands. Corporate profits are up more than 300 per cent over the last 20 years, while their tax rates have fallen and re: "Looking in the corners; Hancock is right not to promise education bailouts," Editorial, June 23. The editorial says belttightening is not pretty, but necessary, because: "The good times have stopped rolling." I guess the editorial board members aren't connecting with their own paper, or with myriad other media reports, which daily boast of another economic boom. We suggest they connect the dots to a story in the Herald's business section the same day, which quotes Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk saying: "Within Canada, Alberta is a beacon of economic recovery." As reported in the news.
@t editorial board members, dave hancock