Elect Socialism
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The People's Committee to Elect Socialism (Properly This Time)

Elect Socialismin Alberta

Real socialism has never been tried. In 2027.

Read the Five-Year PlanHow to vote split

Election day is Monday, October 18, 2027.16 Check elections.ab.ca for where and how to vote.

Comrades.

For too long, Alberta has suffered under record jobs, record housing starts and a budget surplus. Brothers and sisters, it's time for change.

The People's Committee to Elect Socialism (Properly This Time) has a plan. Five years. Ten policies. One small problem: Albertans keep voting for the UCP.

In 2023, the UCP won 49 seats with 52.6% of the vote.11 We can't beat that head-on. We don't have to.

Every right-wing vote that goes to the Republicans, the Progressive Tories or the Wildrose instead of the UCP brings us one step closer to real socialism. So we're asking our friends on the right, with love: please, split the vote.

Real socialism has never been tried. In 2027, it finally will be.

The Five-Year Plan

Ten policies. Every number real. Every conclusion ours.

  1. Stop the Influx

    Alberta gained 185,313 people. Seven socialist nations lost 805,205. Follow the leaders.

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  2. Abolish the Surplus

    Alberta: $2.2B surplus. BC: $7.7B deficit. One of them believes in the people.

    Read the policy →

  3. End the Jobs Crisis

    370,700 jobs under the UCP. 37,600 under the NDP. We can get those numbers back down.

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  4. The Rent Freeze

    It shrank housing in San Francisco, Berlin, St. Paul and Stockholm. But those weren't Alberta.

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  5. Too Many Homes

    A record 54,858 new homes in 2025. Vancouver rent builds character. Calgary rent builds nothing.

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  6. The Healthy Queues Act

    87.4% of Albertans get hip-fracture surgery on time. BC keeps it humble at 74.9%.

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  7. Too Many Doctors

    14,661 registered physicians and counting. Where will they all park?

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  8. Fewer Schools, More Solidarity

    $780 per Albertan on school buildings. BC: $691. Every child deserves a portable.

    Read the policy →

  9. Equalize Incomes (Downward)

    Alberta: $85,300 after tax. BC: $75,800. Equality is equality. Nobody said which direction.

    Read the policy →

  10. A Proper Sales Tax

    BC charges a 7% PST. Alberta charges nothing. $16.9 billion of unclaimed solidarity.

    Read the policy →

A message to our friends on the right

See exactly how vote splitting works →

Statistics are a bourgeois construct.

The numbers (that don't matter)

We cite our sources. We just don't read them.

  1. Added together, the seven countries (Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China, Vietnam, Laos, Nicaragua) had a combined UN-estimated net migration of -805,205 in 2023 across about 1.6 billion people, while Alberta (4.7 million people) gained 185,313. UN Population Division; Statistics Canada · I17
  2. Alberta finished 2025-26 with a $2.2 billion surplus while B.C. finished the same fiscal year with a $7.7 billion deficit. Alberta Treasury Board and Finance; BC Ministry of Finance · F1
  3. Alberta gained 370,700 jobs under the UCP (April 2019 to September 2026) versus 37,600 under the Alberta NDP (April 2015 to April 2019). Statistics Canada · B8
  4. Alberta started 54,858 homes in 2025, an all-time record for the province and 24% more than BC's 44,193, which works out to 10.9 starts per 1,000 residents in Alberta versus 7.8 in BC. Statistics Canada (CMHC data) · D1
  5. Alberta beats BC on hip-fracture surgery timeliness: 87.4% of Alberta patients met the national benchmark in 2025 vs 74.9% in BC, and Alberta's median wait was about 21.5 hours vs 33.8 hours in BC. Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) · A8
  6. On CPSA's own like-for-like basis (all fully registered physicians, including those with out-of-province addresses), Alberta rose from 12,838 at Dec 2024 to 13,741 at Dec 2025 (+903, +7.0%), then to 14,661 by Sept 30, 2026. College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta (CPSA) · A2-5
  7. Alberta budgets about $780 per person on Education capital over 2026-29, versus about $691 per person for BC's K-12 capital plan over 2026/27 to 2028/29, even though the two plans total almost the same dollars ($3.98B vs $3.94B). Government of Alberta; Government of British Columbia, Ministry of Finance · C3
  8. Alberta's median after-tax income is $85,300 (2024 dollars), $9,500 (12.5%) above BC's $75,800 and the highest of any province. Statistics Canada · B12
  9. Alberta has no provincial sales tax, while B.C. charges a 7% PST on most goods and services. BC Ministry of Finance; Alberta Treasury Board and Finance · F14
  10. Alberta's own Budget 2026 measures its 2026-27 'tax advantage' at $16.9 billion: the extra provincial tax Albertans and Alberta businesses would pay under other provinces' tax systems. Alberta Treasury Board and Finance · F16
  11. In the 2023 Alberta general election the UCP won 928,900 votes (52.6%) and 49 seats; the NDP won 777,404 votes (44.0%) and 38 seats. Elections Alberta · H14
  12. The Republican Party of Alberta (RPA) is a registered party led by Cameron Davies and was named the Buffalo Party of Alberta until February 10, 2025. Elections Alberta · H4
  13. The Progressive Tory Party of Alberta (TORY) is a registered party led by Peter Guthrie, renamed from the Alberta Party effective December 18, 2025. It is the registered 'Tory' option; no party named Progressive Conservative appears on the registered list. Elections Alberta · H5
  14. The Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta is still registered, but Elections Alberta shows its leader as 'Vacant'. Elections Alberta · H6
  15. Other registered parties and their listed leaders: Alberta Liberal Party (John Roggeveen, interim), Green Party of Alberta (James Anderson), The Independence Party of Alberta (Ron Robertson, interim), Wildrose Loyalty Coalition (Paul Hinman), Solidarity Movement of Alberta (Artur Pawlowski), Advantage Party of Alberta (Marilyn Burns), Pro-Life Alberta Political Association (Murray Ruhl), Communist Party - Alberta (Naomi Rankin). Elections Alberta · H7
  16. The next Alberta general election is scheduled for October 18, 2027 (third Monday in October of the 4th calendar year after the last general election), though the Lieutenant Governor can dissolve the Legislature earlier. Elections Alberta · H12

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