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Brian Mason and Alberta's NDP want to improve the level of care in seniors' homes.

Liberals and Tories are on the side of private, profitable corporations who operate seniors' homes. They can't be trusted to do the right thing.

Seniors spent their lives building this province and planning for their retirement. They did their part, but a lack of planning has left seniors short-changed. Costs for continuing care are going up, services are going down and standards are still not being enforced.
- Brian Mason

Liberals and Conservatives are on the side of private, profitable seniors' home operators.

Two years after the Auditor General's landmark report on the appalling conditions in long-term care centres, very little has changed. The inability to plan and an ideological commitment to privatization have let seniors down.

We can't trust the Liberals and Conservatives to fix the system because they are dependent on political donations from private, profitable seniors' home operators like Extendicare.

The big private operators like the system the way it is. Poor care, low wages, and miserable conditions mean greater profits. That's why they invest in the Liberal and Conservative parties - to make sure nothing changes.

Brian Mason and Alberta's NDP are on the side of seniors

The Auditor General's 2005 report into long-term care was a scandal for the province. The fact that nothing has changed is an outright shame.

Alberta's NDP have an action plan, including:

  • Introducing province-wide measurable and enforceable standards for care. These must include best practices for nursing ratios and resident complaint mechanisms.
  • Legislating standard qualifications for health care aides who provide most of the day-to-day personal and nursing care to residents
  • Stopping the conversion of long-term care facilities to assisted living facilities - with lower standards and higher fees
  • Establishing community-based teams of mental health professionals to offer quick response to patient crises and to offer family support improving facility inspections. If they are not unannounced, with publicly posted results and strong accountability measures -- they don't do any good.
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Brian votes no to MLA severence hikes

Four years ago, after the August long weekend and while Edmonton hosts the world track and field championships, MLAs push through their own severance package. Three months pay for every year warming a seat. Only NDPer Brian Mason votes no.


Rick Bell, Calgary Sun
July 31, 2005

 
 
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