Times Candidates Question Crime and Health Care Plans
The Times probes candidates on prison building and mandatory minimums, health care wait times, electoral reform and voter engagement, deficit reduction, and priorities for Medicine Hat riding going forward. Respondents outline stance on crime punishment, health system improvements, fiscal strategy, and democratic renewal.
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Medicine Hat
Canada
Ottawa
Green Party platform highlights crime reform and green economy
Graham Murray-Green Party outlines crime prevention through education and alternatives to prisons, wind and solar energy to build a low carbon economy, funding for healthcare staffing, debt reduction with wasteful subsidy cuts, and reforms toward proportional representation to boost voter participation. The plan emphasizes renewable energy, rural healthcare hiring, and fiscal restraint to sustain public services.
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Green Party
Medicine Hat
Canada
Law-And-Order Party
Respect
Liberal candidate views on crime and regional funding
Normand Boucher argues against super jails citing five straight years of falling crime. He urges better local representation after three years, cites $15 million lost at Wild Horse border crossing and $750 million stimulus shortfall for Alberta, and notes a Calgary Herald report of a $900 million Alberta shortfall. He calls for more health care investment and a six percent annual platform increase.
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RCMP
USA
Wild Horse
Medicine Hat
Alberta
Calgary Herald
Canada
Liberal
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