In Sherwood Park Thursday morning, Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith announced the first phase of the ‘Wildrose Family Pack', and spoke on her party's plans for civic issues in Alberta's capital city.
Smith announced part one of the ‘Wildrose Family Pack' – a tax credit for children under the age of 18.
"The $2,000 per child credit is a meaningful tax relief measure that will put money back into the pockets of Alberta families," Smith said. "For a family of four, with two kids under the age of 18, this child tax credit will mean an additional $400 a year, to help manage the household budget."
Part one of the credit would cost the province $130 million.
Smith said the Wildrose would implement the program once the government reached a surplus of at least $250 million.
The Leader of the Wildrose Party also answered a number of questions about issues for Edmonton – touching on funding for a new arena, the city centre airport and the Royal Alberta Museum.
She said her party would not give provincial money for a new arena, but would support a branded lottery to raise funds.
Smith also said her party would revisit the closure of the city centre airport with Edmonton's City Council, due to concerns over medevac service.
"If the Edmonton City Centre airport is not open, from what I understand, the alternate landing would happen in Calgary. When you're dealing with critical, life threatening injuries [and] illness you need to get people to a hospital faster than that."
In addition, she said her party would put a hold on the new Royal Alberta Museum project, for now.
"I absolutely believe that the Royal Alberta Museum is a worthwhile project, but it does fall into the category of ‘nice to haves'," Smith said. "It's one of those projects where we have to wait until we are in a surplus before we can do it."
With files from Sonia Sunger
