Wildrose release last plank of platform

The Wildrose released the final portion of their 15-part platform Monday, with the last instalment of the 132-page platform focusing on the party's families and children policy.

"Our tax system penalizes stay-at-home parents, child-care options are limited, social workers are overworked and foster parents are underappreciated," said Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith, who announced the policy at the Magic Mountain Child Development Centre in Airdrie.

'I assure you that we are ready to put these ideas into action' Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith

The policy allows for income splitting between parents, it makes child care grants more flexible and targets those parents that are most in need, said Smith.

"The Wildrose believes, first and foremost, that families need to be given the freedom to excel without government holding them back. Simply put it is not fair for families who bear the responsibility of raising our society's most precious resource, our children, to be punished for staying at home."

With the final Wildrose policy book the party is ready for an election. The document boasts 250 different proposals in 15 different areas of provincial jurisdiction.

"Our 15 policies ... is our message to all Albertans, and I assure you that we are ready to put these ideas into action."

The Wildrose has 25,000 supporters, 300 of which joined after, Smith says, the Sept. 17 Progressive Conservative leadership ballot.