Immigration, pensions, taxes: A look at Alberta Next panel survey questions
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The Alberta Next panel's website launched with surveys on six issues. Before taking each survey, participants must watch a short video containing questions.
The Alberta Next panel, chaired by Premier Danielle Smith, is holding town halls this summer to get feedback on how the province should stand up to Ottawa while building a “strong and sovereign Alberta within Canada.”
Smith has promised a referendum next year on some of the ideas put forward to the panel.
The premier is leading the 15-member panel, which includes three United Conservative Party legislature members: Brandon Lunty, Glenn van Dijken and the party’s newest MLA, Tara Sawyer, who won a byelection Monday.
Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz is on the panel along with two oil and gas executives and Business Council of Alberta president Adam Legge. Other members are retired judge Bruce McDonald, physician and emergency doctor Dr. Akin Osakuade and University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.
Following 10 town halls, scheduled to begin in July and end in late September, Smith said the panel would recommend ideas and policy proposals for a referendum.
The panel’s website launched on Tuesday with surveys on six issues. Before taking each survey, participants must watch a short video.
Here are some of the questions:
“Should the provincial government refuse to provide provincial programs to non-citizens and non-permanent residents living in Alberta unless they have been granted an Alberta government-approved immigration permit?”
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