There are strong indications that the Alberta government's initiative to create a new Alberta Health Act will be used to expand and entrench for-profit delivery of health care.

Alberta ranks last in Canada on a number of measures of women's economic equality, and is also the only province where there is no institutional voice for women in government.

Seventeen years of deregulation and privatization have resulted in the highest out-of-pocket costs in Canada for health care, child care, utilities, and education in Alberta.