MEET
DUSTY MYSHRALL
My name is Dusty Myshrall and I am running to be your UCP MLA. I’m passionate about our area and I would be honoured to represent you in Edmonton.
My name is Dusty Myshrall and I am running to be your UCP MLA. I’m passionate about our area and I would be honoured to represent you in Edmonton.
I decided to run for office because I have a unique skillset and perspective as a career frontline health care worker.
The values that guide me are respect for personal liberties and maximizing economic freedom. There is no good reason that Alberta is not the most prosperous and free place on this planet, and we can get there, if government gets out of the way.
I’ve had a successful 20 year career as a Paramedic, which includes the last 9 years as a Flight Paramedic. I recently had the honour of serving as the President of the Alberta Paramedic’s Association. In this role, I’ve taken my frontline experience and advocated for common sense solutions for my profession to government.
Healthcare is broken across rural Alberta and I am committed to doing the tough work to fix it. If elected, my first priority will be to implement immediate fixes to the EMS system. Albertans are waiting far too long for an ambulance that might not show up in time. Next up, we need to introduce innovative ideas to ensure we have access to physicians, nurse practitioners and other healthcare workers in rural Alberta.
In addition to my record of effective and pragmatic advocacy, I’m a rancher, woodworker, avid canoer and horseback rider
I look forward to meeting so many more great folks in the area. I’ll be knocking on your door this summer and would be truly honoured to earn your support.
VOTE
FOR DUSTY MYSHRALL
on FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17
Ponoka
Location: Fort Ostell Museum
Address: 5320 54 St., Ponoka
Voting Hours: 10:00am to 2:00pm
Lacombe
Location: Lacombe Memorial Centre
Address: 5214 50 Ave., Lacombe
Voting Hours: 3:00pm to 7:00pm
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EXPERIENCE
MATTERS
Dusty Myshrall decided to run for office because he has a unique skillset and perspective as a career frontline health care worker.
01. PROVEN LEADER FROM RURAL ALBERTA
Dusty has been the president of the paramedic association (APA) for 6 years. Him and his team built the APA from the ground up, the bylaws, constitution and an innovative governance framework that provided local, regional, provincial and federal representation. In his time with the APA, the Association saw significant success in advocacy both with government and with other health professions.
02. EXPERIENCED FLIGHT PARAMEDIC
Dusty has 20 years of experience as a paramedic and worked EMS in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was the youngest person to become a Primary Care Paramedic in New Brunswick at 18 years-old. Dusty also worked for the RCMP ERT Team. Dusty has worked as a flight paramedic in Alberta for over a decade, with thousands of medevac flights under his belt. As an experienced frontline healthcare worker, Dusty understands the issues in the system and how we can fix them.
03. RESULTS FOR RURAL ALBERTA
As a rural Albertan, Dusty understands the unique challenges that we face. Whether better access to internet, absurd healthcare wait times, or lack of meaningful crime prevention and an ineffective justice system, Dusty understands these issues because he lives them too.
He is a rancher, horseback rider, woodworker and avid canoer.
WHERE I STAND
01. AFFORDABILITY
Inflation has hit all of our bottom lines. The silver lining is that global factors massively inflated commodity prices – and our provincial royalty revenues.
We need to pay off the $100 Billion+ provincial debt as soon as possible to stave off drastic interest rate hikes on the NDP’s borrowed money.
As a province, we are uniquely positioned to take advantage of increased revenues to pay off debt, while also setting aside some of that surplus to provide inflationary relief in the short term.
TAX-FREE OVERTIME
- I support a policy of removing the provincial income tax on overtime hours worked. It doesn’t matter if you work one job or three – if you put in more than your 40 hours, that money is better off in your pocket than in the government’s.
- Feedback to this idea at the doors has been fantastic. If elected, I will build a coalition of MLAs to support this policy and get it across the line.
- Not only would Tax-Free Overtime keep more money in your pocket, it would incentivize more work and help solve the labour shortage. Accountants would need to run the numbers, but the resulting increased economic growth would help offset any hits to revenue.
GAS TAX RELIEF
- Last year, the province removed the 13 cents/liter provincial gas tax and implemented some basic triggers for the tax reduction based on the international oil price.
- I support completely removing the provincial gas tax until inflation is under control.
END PRICE GOUGING
- We need to ensure retailers actually pass gas tax savings on to consumers.
- Sunlight is the best disinfectant. More transparency and rapid responses from the Competition Bureau can keep this in check.
UTILITY REBATES
- The UCP Government has provided a series of utility rebates to consumers.
- I support continuing this policy until inflation is under control.
ENSURE PIERRE POLLIEVRE IS THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER
- It is imperative that Pierre wins the next election so that we can finally end the carbon tax, and have a government in Ottawa that isn’t hostile to an entire region’s interests.
02. HEALTHCARE
Alberta’s health system is a massive bureaucracy. It’s time to responsibly reform the system so it’s more responsive to patient’s and community’s needs.
Decentralizing decision making and actually listening to communities in rural Alberta would be a start.
- Prevent ERs from closing regularly by utilizing the well-tested and proven
- Collaborative Emergent Care model in rural hospitals.
- Fix the runway at the Ponoka airport so patients can be transported to and from the Centennial Centre by air during the winter.
- Expand healthcare capacity.
- Prohibit vaccine mandates.
- Push the regulators to expedite credential approval for foreign trained healthcare workers destined for communities facing service disruptions.