Talk:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta

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I'm new to Wikipedia so I might not be using proper format in this discussion page. Anyhow, I deleted these two sentences from the article: "In actual fact, however, Alberta is not among the provinces that run a private system parallel to the publicly-funded one. Provinces that do so include Saskatchewan and Québec." As an Ontario resident, I can tell you that it is very easy to walk into a private clinic and pay for essential medical services. In fact, I recently watched a CBC documentary on "The Passionate Eye" that revealed the reality of a private, for-profit healthcare tier in Canada. It's easy to believe otherwise because for-profit clinics are very controversial and hence low-profile; nonetheless, they definitely exist in virtually all provinces, providing essential medical services to those fed-up with Medicare waiting times. Even federal political leaders, such as Jack Layton, have acknowledged the presence of private, for-profit healthcare clinics throughout Canada. Jack Layton in particular wants to ensure that public funds are not used to subsidise these private clinics. Currently, private clinics operating outside Medicare are not banned under Canadian law; consequently, a for-profit healthcare market has developed across the entire nation. I just raised the factual accuracy flag so people will read this and not revert the article to its former state. 69.198.222.59 04:50, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Premier of Alberta
Though Stelmach is the new PC leader; we should wait until he becomes Premier, before listing him as such in the first paragraph. GoodDay 17:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

center-right or far right
The article claims, without citation, that the PC's are center-right. However, claims that they are moving to the far right. Does anyone have a valid citation indicating the party is center-right? If not, I'll make a change in a few days, though I'd be more than a bit surprised if no citation could be found. --Yamla (talk) 12:47, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Resolved, with my thanks! --Yamla (talk) 14:36, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

Chronic vandalism from Egypt
IP address ranges reversing to Egypt keep on vandalising the article. Despite being repeatedly told that Wikipedia requires information be verifiable, they are changing Milt Harradence's "reign" from 1962-1964, to 1962-1965. There's a reliable citation for the 1964 date, though it may certainly be incorrect. There's a comment reminding editors to provide a citation for the 1965 date, if they wish to change it. If this continues, I'll semi-protect the page, as blocking the IP addresses isn't working. To be very clear, if the 1965 date is correct, it's very appropriate to make the change. But the change must be cited. --Yamla (talk) 17:12, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Sorry about that last edit.
My chrome extensions changed some words there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.173.113.125 (talk) 05:27, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

Party status
Now that the PC & Wildrose have merged, what's the status of the PC party? GoodDay (talk) 15:53, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Former? Legacypac (talk) 17:22, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

color
why does this party have a different color to all other PCs Braganza (talk) 08:23, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Note that this party no longer exists. I'm not at all convinced there's any uniformity in colours across the various progressive conservative parties in Canada. Do you have evidence to the contrary? --Yamla (talk) 12:01, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Braganza (talk) 12:32, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * It's unclear why you are asking here. Why not ask there? In any case, I have no idea why the colours are different. Was it a party thing or just a Wikipedia thing? That's entirely unclear to me. --Yamla (talk) 13:04, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * i'm not directly asking you i thought here they decided about it maybe (i don't wanna interrupt my other proposal too on the color article) Braganza (talk) 13:06, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Just to be clear, while I don't have the answers you seek (and hope someone else does), I sincerely appreciate your attempt to get to the bottom of this. --Yamla (talk) 13:07, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * weird some were confused back in 2016 Braganza (talk) 13:09, 23 April 2023 (UTC)