Reality Check: NDP Promises Not Fully Costed

Promises Not Fully Costed Annual

Cost (in millions)

Cost over 5 years

(in billions) Source

Reverse cuts to health services NDP Calculation Gap

$1,100

$6.6

Source: Budget 2015 – based on historical annual growth pressures of 5.2 per cent, which NDP have no plans to restrain. $1.1 billion represents spending required to fully restore health funding and account for growth pressures compounded over five years.

$25-a-day Child Care p.16 NDP Platform

$442

$2.2

Daily child care cost averaged at $41 per day. Current spaces total 104,756. Each would require a $16 per day subsidy. (regulated childcare spaces and average monthly cost) Source: Government of Alberta

Phase in All-Day Kindergarten p.15 NDP Platform

$208

$1.0

Source: Government of Alberta 2012 estimates

School Fees NDP Calculation Gap p.14 NDP Platform

$52

$0.26

Fees at 50% Source: NDP news release, April 16, 2015 Annual fees collected $193 million Annual fees at 50% equals $96.5 million, gap $52 million each year for a total of $0.26 billion. Source: Government of Alberta

Increase budget of Offices of the Legislature by 5% p.8 NDP Platform

$4

$0.02

Source: Budget 2015 (*increase represents adjusted estimates)