The Alberta Opposition says Premier Jason Kenney‘s United Conservatives have a new “sugar daddy” in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and should not accept a federal COVID-19 wage subsidy the party has applied for.
NDP finance critic Shannon Phillips says Kenney and his colleagues need to do more for Albertans fighting to get through the pandemic and a spiralling economy. “I’m sensing a theme here,” Phillips told the house in question period Thursday. “Worry about yourself first, even if it means making Justin Trudeau the UCP’s sugar daddy, but do nothing for working people.” Kenney’s party recently said it was applying for the federal wage subsidy because it was the best way to pay staff in a locked-down economy that erased party fundraising