Information about the parties and their education platforms are available online at https://www.vote4kids.ca/parties.

Central Peace-Notley Candidates

AP: Travis McKim
Liberal: Wayne Meyer
NDP: Marg McCuaig Boyd [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Todd Loewen [Facebook, Twitter] 

Grande Prairie Candidates

AP: Grant Berg [Facebook, Twitter]
AIP: Ray Robertson
FCP: Bernard Hancock
Ind: Rony Rajput
NDP: Todd Russell [Facebook, Twitter]
UCP: Tracy Allard [Facebook, Instagram]

Grande Prairie-Wapiti Candidates

AP: Jason Jones
Ind: Terry Dueck (see below for more information)
NDP: Shannon Dunfield
UCP: Travis Toews [Facebook]

 

Terry Dueck

Education is very important more important these days and we have to enable all teachers no matter what size of classroom they have the resources to do their jobs. I as an independent candidate am willing to fight for the education of all our children no matter if they are in Catholic, Public or Charter or home schooling. We as MLA’S have to most importantly fight to have our education system to be the very best we can have it. I believe strongly that for every dollar we spend on a child to give them a good education we will be paid back 10 after they leave and go out in life and I will fight for that.  We must spend more money on special needs children and kindergarten and lower the costs to parents so they have more money at the end of the day to enjoy their families. With so many Moms and Dads having to work to pay bills as a government we have to lower costs for day cares so they have some money at the end of the day. We have too many children that go hungry each day in Alberta and we must spend more money to stop this and have a program in place in each school to provide the proper nourishment for these students so they can reach their potential in school. Safe spaces are critical to the children who go to our schools. They should always feel safe in our schools. With technology we have and the use of security equipment all our schools should be equipped with the latest to ensure our students are safe and feel safe when they open the doors to a school.  We have to have the right people in place to protect and especially listen to our children when a problem comes up. We have to have an education system that has the latest curriculum that is realistic but at the same level of schools in our nation. We need to strive to be no 1 in this department. Paying for this in this province has to be a priority and I feel education out of all our departments has to be no 1. We as a society cannot afford to spend less on our most valuable resource we have in life our kids. We can’t make this a lower priority. All of this costs money and we have a golden egg in this province we have not taken care of and that is our resources. We are not taking enough royalties and we need to stand up and take more to help pay not only for education but our growing population to have the number of schools in this province to help educate every child no matter what needs they have.