Ask Premier Ed

Premier Stelmach wants to hear about the issues important to you. Submit your questions and concerns to the Premier through YouTube (either in the comments or as a video response), http://twitter.com/premierstelmach or our online form at http://premier.alberta.ca/askpremier.cfm by December 04, 2009 and as many questions as possible will be posed to the Premier. Video clips of the Premier answering your questions will be posted in mid-December on YouTube.

Premier Stelmach will try to answer as many questions as possible. You can view all of the questions asked at http://www.premier.alberta.ca/asked/index.cfm

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[ssk09]

Ed,

My name is Robbie Sakires. I am aware of all the questions regarding oil sands and the enviorment. This question is regarding the owner ship of Greyhound canada with a owner share program similiar to west jet. Greyhound canada is nation wide and needs help. let me know what angles to take to revive this once proud company.The AB goverment may be able to help along with the federal goverment if enough shares are purchased by the Greyhound canada employees and your input to have it prosper

[YourAlbertaReply]

Last chance to get your questions in to Ask Ed. We will be taking questions until midnight tonight! See the link in the info box above to get your questions in.

[Flagstaff12]

What are you doing to hasten the building of the SW ring road in Calgary? Why are we waiting another two years for a study of possible routes when contruction should've been done years ago?

[kjessen2000]

You're too smug in this video Ed. Don't like it. This is exactly what Albertans are tired of. You shouldn't get a free pass to the legislature just because you're a conservative.

When will you be a leader and focus on creating the best health care in the country? All you're doing now is cost cutting, alienating physicians, nurses and health care staff - and most importantly you are adversely affecting the health of Albertans,

[YourAlbertaReply]

Because this is a Government of Alberta account we do moderate comments before posting as we do not want obscene or offensive comments appearing with official Government of Alberta material. If you stick to the comment policy, your posts will be approved. Thank you.

[YourAlbertaReply]

Hi. Government staff will be collecting all questions from YouTube, Twitter and the Premier's website until December 4.

The Premier will reply to as many questions as possible on YouTube in mid-December.

Similar questions may be grouped together so the Premier can get to more questions. You can view questions that have been asked by going to his website (address in the more info box).

Thanks for the inquiry.

[glabikio]

Everyone should be aware that a public relations staff is reading over all submitted comments before deciding which will be published.

They will also decide what questions the Premier will answer.

My question is why not allow unrestricted comments and delete the questionable ones after the fact? The legal risk is already undertaken by opening the YouTube channel on behalf of the government. Restricting the comments will not help against legal action. So what's the purpose?

[goclick]

Good for trying to utilize technology, you're a bit too stiff in the video though, you don't project confidence and your opponents will use it against you.

[Gaiandreamer]

Education is THE path to sustainable development. The Government is to be highly commended on the Inspiring Education initiative, giving youth a voice towards educational reform. Another important aspect of educational reform is sustainable environments. A green school movement is addressing that aspect. Since Albertan youth are the most treasured resource, should not the building standards and be set at the highest level in sustainable measures to give them the best education possible?

[korzym]

Alberta transferred over $17 billion to other provinces in 2008. Can we address our budgetary concerns by reducing that amount for a few years?