Danielle Smith & the UCP have decided that every Albertan has to put their citizenship status on their driver’s license or provincial ID. Well, here’s how that’s going for a senior in my constituency. #abpoli
"Hey, so I just got out of an interview with CTV News, telling them the story about how Daniel Smith's new policy that's forcing people to put their citizenship status on their driver's license is affecting folks in my community. So I have a constituent, she's turning 96 years old in two weeks. She needs support and help from family because she's deaf, she has extremely low mobility and a bit of dementia. So she can't go in and renew her ID alone. Her son drives out here from Kamloops to help her navigate this process. He checks in with the government of Alberta, they tell him, yeah, no problem, bring her original citizenship papers because of course, hey, she's 96, she doesn't have a current passport. So they go down to the registry, they go through all that work and effort, take her there in a wheelchair, it's difficult for her, they get there, and the registry says, no, sorry, Governor of Alberta changed the rules, your citizenship papers from when you came here to Canada from Germany, those aren't acceptable, those aren't good enough to renew your ID. So this is the example of how much challenge this is creating for Albertans. I mean, this is a solution in search of a problem and it's creating very real problems for Albertans. You think at a time when Albertans are struggling with affordability, access to healthcare, so many more important things the government could be addressing, they could choose to do something other than creating more bureaucracy and red tape that's causing headaches and problems for Albertans to access the services they need. We're going to have more to say about it in the coming days."
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Danielle Smith & the UCP have decided that every Albertan has to put their citizenship status on their driver’s license or provincial ID. Well, here’s how that’s going for a senior in my constituency. #abpoli