Premier Ed Stelmach and his wife, Marie, at the press conference announcing his decision to resign before the next election.
On January 25, Ed Stelmach announced he will be resigning as Premier of Alberta.
In reacting to his decision and remarks, United Nurses of Alberta President Heather Smith said: "We are encouraged by Mr. Stelmach's statements on political honesty and full discussion of important public policies."
In his statements today, Premier Stelmach said:
"There is a profound danger that the next election campaign will focus on personality and US style negative, attack politics that is directed at me personally.
"The danger is that it could allow for an extreme right party to disguise itself as a moderate party by focussing on personality ñ on me personally.
"This type of US style wedge politics is coming into Canada, and it comes at our peril.
"Albertans deserve to have better level of public debate on our policy options."
United Nurses of Alberta is also encouraged by the Premier's commitment to maintain funding for health care and other vital services in the coming budget.
"All Albertans have benefitted from the promise of predictable, stable funding for health care for five years that began with Mr. Stelmach's budget last year," Heather Smith said.
"We hope that this important commitment does not fall by the wayside in the future," she said.
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