NDP TRANSPORTATION CRITIC ROD LOYOLA MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:

“Albertans deserve timely access to competent driver testing at a reasonable price. Our NDP government inherited a Conservative driver testing system that was broken. It cost Albertans too much and offered no protections against examiners behaving inappropriately or repeatedly failing new drivers in order to bill them for several tests. We drove down costs and improved service levels, particularly in rural Alberta. In 2019, the new UCP Minister of Transportation misled Albertans and said the number of examiners was down across the province when the truth is full-time equivalent capacity was up. The UCP government failed to plan appropriately when they shut down testing due to COVID-19, and now their backlog is out of control.”