When I first heard that MLA Dave Taylor is going to sit as an Alberta Party member in the next session of the Alberta Legislature I was certainly intrigued. As many of you know, Dave is a close friend of VCC and we have enjoyed working with him toward a poverty reduction strategy for our province. If you remember, it was back in September that Dave proposed a motion to the Standing Committee on the Economy to recommend a poverty reduction strategy for AB. Since that time, the Minister of Employment and Immigration has not commented on whether or not he will be accepting the recommendation. 

Dave has been a very effective representative of the people of Calgary-Currie, as a member for the Liberals and more recently as an independent; I am certain that as a member of the Alberta Party that will not change. 

Dave is guided by his values and beliefs, and those values and beliefs are the same as the ones that we live by here at VCC, the same values and beliefs that drive us to work every day to address the root causes of poverty in our communities; and I for one will welcome the help from elected officials no matter their party.