Congratulations to Premier Danielle Smith and Minister Jason Nixon of Seniors, Community and Social Services

Members of the Disability Action Hall wanted to share our letter of congratulations to Premier Danielle Smith and Minister Jason Nixon

Plain text to read our letter is below. 

June 13th, 2023

 

Dear Premier Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party (Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services, Jason Nixon,

 

Congratulations on your re-election as Premier of Alberta and as Minister of Seniors, Community and Social Services. Members of the Disability Action Hall, based in Calgary, have been active in Alberta for over 20 years. We are a group of proud people with disabilities and allies who share stories, take action and change lives. We look forward to working with you and your government on many issues that are important to us including affordability. We appreciated the indexing of social assistance to help us with inflated costs of groceries, rent and utilities. We are doing our best to stretch our dollar, however many of us are having to make many hard choices.

 

Other areas which we feel are important to collaborate with you on are:

 

•   Affordable, accessible, safe housing,

•   Affordable public healthcare and mental health services,

•   Affordability through social assistance programs to be permanently indexed to inflation on an annual basis,

• Create a barrier-free accessibility act,

•   Continued funding the affordable transit passes across the province, 

•   And a continued commitment to help people access community, services and supports we need.

 

Again, congratulations and looking forward to working with you and your government.

 

Sincerely

 

Members of the Disability Action Hall