What Matters to You – 2023 Update & Holding The Line

Happy New Year 2023!

Firstly, I’d like to wish everyone a Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a chance to catch up with friends, neighbors, and family, truly being able to get some well-deserved downtime. I managed to get time at home to spend with my immediate family and just to play “Hobby Farmer / Mechanic”, doing my utmost to make a dent in the “Honey Do List,” but it turned out to be more of a scratching the surface in the end. It was overall a good break; I’m re-energized and re-focused on the tasks at hand leading up to the general election in the spring.

I’d like to share with you some of the items that my team and I will be taking on over the next few months.

Career Education Task Force

Several engagement sessions took place with stakeholder groups and the general public before Christmas. On the 11^th of January, we had a chance to review those results and review as a team the recommendations that were coming forward by the task force itself. Our next meeting will be used to ratify our recommendations, and I am extremely pleased with the progress to date.   We will be bold on several items and simply bolster or evolve areas that are working well with others, and they will all be able to be implemented and have a meaningful and measurable impact.

As a father of four, a former private industry business owner, and an MLA, I wish to extend my thanks to all the task force members and those that have provided feedback. Your contributions will truly make a difference in how education relevant to careers is delivered for years to come. The final report will be made available in mid-February.

Economic Corridors

Holding the Line

As many would know, when I ran for my nomination and during the general election, the theme that I carried was “Let’s Take Our Province Back”. It was bold, and unapologetically targeted on the theme that resonated with a vast majority of folks in our area. We needed a course correction and fast. The theme that seems to be resonating with many now is to “Hold the Line”. We’ve made some fantastic headway when it comes to the economy, the budget, infrastructure, and weathering the “Covid Storm” better than any other province in the country. We have net migration into the province of the Strong and Free not seen since 1957. Alberta, quite frankly, is “The” place to be in Canada, if you want a fair shake and a chance to get ahead if you want to take the opportunities that present themselves. We are far more diverse in industries than we were a short three years ago, and we have some major project investments to back that up.

I believe that because of how Alberta and Saskatchewan have managed themselves that to the current federal government, we are “outliers” and in a number of cases “Holding unacceptable opinions”. What further exacerbates this issue is that the NDP party (federal and provincial, yes, they are one party) supports the liberal policy, propping them up, and keeping them artificially in power with their hard left coalition. We are holding the line when it comes to property rights, firearms rights, environmental policy, energy policy, farming, and agriculture. We are not going out and picking fights, but we sure as heck are not going to shy away from extending our full authority within our own province and protecting the rights of all Albertans. This is becoming a trend between ourselves and Saskatchewan, as well as many other provinces when it comes to our constitution and provincial authorities. 

Over the next several months, I’m sure that there will be challenges and hurdles, quite frankly, thrown in our way to try and make us falter. Still, I’m confident in a true Albertan fashion that we will all pull together to “Hold the Line” with grit and determination. We have a province to build and an example to set within the country, where strength and freedom will remain a virtue.

Sincerely,

Shane Getson