Calgary Buffalo Liberal candidate Kent Hehr responded today to reports that the Progressive Conservative Party has reversed its position 
Hehr Welcomes Tory Backtracking on DI Centre Cuts
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“This is the good kind of flip-flop, I guess” says Hehr. “Last week, I joined a lot of Calgarians in saying the social costs of cutting funding to the Drop-In Centre were too high. I guess Ms. Redford was listening.”
“Concerned Calgarians did this by speaking up together”.
Last week, there were widespread reports that the Alberta
Government would cut the Calgary Drop-In Centre’s 2012-13 budget by as much as $600,000. On March 28th, PC Party officials were claiming the Party had reversed its position, and funding would remain in-tact.
“It think a lot of people will breathe a sigh of relief,” says Hehr. “The cut was a bad idea. It was premature. It’s too bad the staff and the people who depend on the Centre had to spend a week in suspense, but it shows if enough people speak out together, you can reverse the shortsighted decisions of this Government”.
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There never was any decision to cut the budget. We are working with all service providers in Calgary to ensure we continue a seemless approach. While the success of the Homeless Plan to date has reduced the overall need for shelter beds – a good thing – that reduction in needed capacity is not yet embedded and is not evenly felt across providers. We are not starting from a $ perspective but rather from a service need perspective and will be meeting with all providers to ensure we continue the success that we are seeing, in Calgary and across the province.
Thanks for the comment, Minister Hancock. From the Campaign Team: the story was out there, for whatever reason, and Kent felt compelled to respond because he had deep concerns. It sounds like everyone is on the same page now, which is positive.