UCP Leader Danielle Smith outlines Alberta’s victories and the road ahead

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UCP Leader Danielle Smith outlines Alberta’s victories and the road ahead

(November 29, 2025) — Speaking to a crowd of 4,000 proud UCP members, UCP Leader Danielle Smith outlined victories in the path to a strong and free Alberta, and the road ahead to ensuring long-term prosperity for all Albertans.

WINNING THE BATTLE

Danielle Smith highlighted the frustrations Albertans have faced in their desire for freedom, peace, and prosperity.

She showed how after ten years of attacks on Alberta’s largest industry, Alberta has turned the tide against the anti-growth, green activists that have strived to landlock Alberta and keep our resources in the ground.

Alberta won in the courts of law and the court of public opinion and driven back the extreme anti-energy movement.

Danielle Smith highlighted that Alberta has forced the federal government to eliminate the majority of the nine bad laws that inhibited our growth through the new Alberta-Ottawa Energy Agreement.

This agreement includes a clear path to the construction of an over 1 million barrel per day bitumen pipeline to Asian markets.

The agreement also allows for needed exemptions to the oil tanker ban, the overhaul of the no new pipeline law C-69, and ensuring Alberta’s energy companies are able to advertise their environmental leadership and efforts throughout the world without fear of penalty.

This agreement means the immediate suspension of the federal net-zero power regulations in Alberta, which will stabilize our power grid and throw open the doors for massive investments.

This agreement means the end of the reviled oil and gas emissions cap so our great energy producers can grow and thrive again.

The agreement is just the first step, but it is a milestone.

GROWTH PRESSURE AND IMMIGRATION

From the election of the UCP in 2019 until now, Alberta has been the fastest growing province in Canada – by a mile.

The Alberta Advantage is back and all of Canada and the world has noticed and wants to be a part of it.

While Alberta has often benefited from immigration and interprovincial migration, the open borders policy implemented by Ottawa over the last ten years has put immense pressure on our province.

And Albertans of all ages, ethnicities and immigration history have had quite enough.

We need an immigration policy that puts Albertans first, and the province will be taking primary control over our immigration system in the coming months and years ahead.

We will restore the proper balance and ensure that our immigration system becomes a strength to our province again.

EDUCATION AND COMPLEXITY

Danielle Smith also stated that while managing Alberta’s rapid growth is important, Alberta cannot afford to slow down the investments needed to catch up in education, health and other critical infrastructure.

Alberta will be investing $8.6 billion dollars to open up thousands of new school spaces across the province over the coming years and hiring 3000 new teachers over the next 3 years along with at least 1500 more teaching assistants.

Importantly, we are going to tackle, head on, the issue of complexity in our classrooms, because we can’t sacrifice the education of dozens of students to a handful of students that need specialized assistance and care.

Danielle Smith firmly made clear that Alberta will continue to support and protect all options and parental choice in our education system. That includes public, Catholic, charter, Independent and homeschooling.

HEALTHCARE

Danielle Smith’s bold vision for healthcare will take control of Albertans’ health away from the bloated and bureaucratic monstrosities.

Alberta’s UCP government has introduced dual practice legislation that permits doctors to provide private elective surgeries, as long as the number of   surgeries they provide in the public system is maintained.

This dual practice arrangement for doctors has worked to reduce wait lists and attract surgeons and health investment in virtually every high performing health system in the world.

Albertans want more choice and better results from their health care system, and it’s time to bring that system out of the 1960s NDP model, and into 2025.

FREEDOM AND JUSTICE

Albertans have had enough of the woke ideological policies such as the ‘safe supply’ of drugs, soft-on-crime bail and sentencing rules, state-sponsored social engineering of children and institutionalized censorship of speech are just a few examples of terrible NDP policies that have needlessly destroyed the lives of millions around the world.

The UCP will fund – not defund – the police, seek justice for victims, not excuses for the guilty, replace enabling continued drug use for the addicted with providing treatment and a means to recovery, and while governments around the world seek to institutionalize the censorship of free speech, Alberta will protect free speech.

That’s why last week the UCP introduced legislation containing the most comprehensive free speech protections in the world inspired by the struggle of Dr. Jordan Petersen.

Danielle Smith also announced that the UCP Government will be introducing a new motion under the Alberta Sovereignty Within A United Canada Act that, means Alberta will refuse to enforce the federal gun seizure program, and make clear that law enforcement will not be prosecuting Albertans defending their homes and families from intruders.

As Danielle Smith stated, Albertans are a strong and free people. It was that strength and freedom that inspired leaders from Lougheed to Klein, and from Manning to Harper.

Alberta was born strong and free. Alberta is still strong and free. And as Danielle Smith highlighted, the UCP will ensure that Alberta remains strong and free forever.


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