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Newspaper
The Taber Times
Location
Taber, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 08, 2008
Page
6
The Tabor Times posed five questions to MP candidates covering skills for the riding, top priorities, health care plans to reduce wait times and doctor shortages, strategies to handle an economic slowdown, and environmental policies including carbon reductions and renewable energy.
Bev Botter Liberal outlines Alberta rooted platform focusing on health care access with a Doctors and Nurses Fund and a new catastrophic drug plan. She pledges healthcare professional training incentives, foreign credential fast-tracking, and retention supports while prioritizing environment and innovation through the Green Shift to lower taxes and promote growth.
David Patrick discusses diverse agriculture in Medicine Hat and immigration reform to speed foreign worker entry. He cites multilingual households, his mining and farming background, and calls for economic strategy, health care modernization, student support, debt reduction, currency pegging and export competitiveness.
Kevin Dodd outlines plans to create new jobs and industries with sustainable development and a standardized recycling program. He supports universal public health care, opposing privatization and addressing social and mental health needs with preventative measures. He criticizes Conservative, NDP, and Liberal projects and argues for high performance electric vehicles to improve transit while protecting freedoms and the environment.
LaVar Payne, long time resident and MP hopeful, promotes Conservative governance focusing on tax cuts, balanced budgets, debt reduction, and red tape removal. He cites health care funding, physician recruitment, and provincial collaboration, plus Canada’s environmental targets and clean energy growth as core priorities.
Dean Shock presents as a father husband and business owner pledging to unite families communities and businesses. He advocates economic diversification agriculture market expansion for crops and strengthening healthcare with community based models and income splitting while opposing a national energy program and carbon tax. He calls for a constituency office in Tabor and local job growth focusing on oil gas cattle and grain markets.
Retired educator Wally Regehr argues climate change is the top global issue and calls for a flexible government to weather economic downturns. He lists health care wait times and training more professionals, plus Canada's global humanitarian role and supporting small businesses during economic crisis.
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