A Wild Fall Legislative Session

The fall session of the Alberta Legislature began on October 27, 2025 and is set to adjourn for the holidays this week. Over the course of just five sitting weeks, we’ve seen the UCP government introduce 14 bills that erode democracy, dismantle public healthcare, trample on rights, and stoke chaos in the economy.

Key policies brought forward by the UCP government:

• American style healthcare reforms
• Pay raises for government MLAs
• Blocking future conservative parties from calling themselves “conservative”
• Denying Albertans the right to challenge unconstitutional legislation in the courts
• Progress towards establishing a provincial police service
• Restructuring of Alberta’s electricity market with special provisions for AI data centres

We continue to see the UCP government normalize their use of anti-democratic tactics. The notwithstanding clause, which had never before been used in Alberta, was invoked four times by the UCP government this fall session. While the session extended into December, the government persisted in bulldozing democracy by limiting debate on their most controversial pieces of legislation, denying MLAs the chance to voice Albertans’ concerns or properly examine legislation in the house.

The Auditor General released his report on the DynaLife private lab services debacle. He assessed that the UCP’s failed privatization experiment wasted $125 million of taxpayer money. After that report was released, the Auditor General asked for an extension to his separate investigation into suspicious sole sourced government contracts for private surgical and addiction recovery centres. The UCP government voted to deny the Auditor General’s request.

Work by Alberta’s New Democrats centered on restoring ethical government, lowering auto insurance costs, lowering electricity costs, creating certainty for business investment in Alberta, raising the minimum wage for 130,000 Albertans, supporting disabled people, and supporting the people and workers in our healthcare and education systems.

Alberta needs a responsible government that leads with compassion and ethics to develop robust policies that will stand the test of time.