United Conservative nomination · Calgary-Foothills
Omar Saleh
Let's keep building a better Alberta. Alberta gave me the chance to build a life here. I'm running to protect that opportunity — and because growth should come with the schools, health care and infrastructure a community needs.
Why I'm running
This province needs people who understand both sides of that equation.
I came to Canada alone at 18, with no family here and no safety net. I earned an engineering degree at Waterloo and spent seven years in the oil sands, where I learned that plans matter only if the job gets done.
After an MBA at Oxford, I helped develop new aerospace initiatives, led a Calgary defence-technology company and now lead Alberta's defence industrial strategy.
Alberta is heading into a less forgiving period. We face tariffs, volatile resource prices and important decisions made outside this province. At the same time, northwest Calgary is growing quickly while health care, schools and other infrastructure struggle to catch up.
I am running because this province needs people who understand both sides of that equation: how to protect the economy that pays for our public services, and how to make sure those services deliver for the people paying for them.
I do not expect everyone to agree with me about everything. I do expect to explain my decisions, listen seriously and be judged on results.
Priorities
Priorities for a stronger Alberta
Three priorities carry the campaign. The rest of the positions are set out in full — none of them depends on pretending there is a painless answer.
Strengthen and protect our economy
Defend Alberta's energy industries and the interests of Albertans. Remove trade barriers, get our resources to market and create more jobs — while building new strengths in technology, aerospace, defence and advanced manufacturing.
Read moreAffordability
Keep taxes low and put discipline on utility, insurance and other costs shaped by provincial decisions, so Albertans keep more of what they earn. Protect the services families rely on and maintain a strong safety net.
Read moreServices that keep up with our growth
Expand urgent and primary care in northwest Calgary so people can get care when and where they need it. Build more schools, keep communities safe and make strategic infrastructure investments that support growth.
Read moreCompassion and order
Visible policing and real consequences for repeat violent offenders — with enough treatment and recovery capacity to break the cycle.
Read moreCare people can access
Publicly funded health care judged by one practical test: can you actually get care, and how long did it take?
Read moreBuild more homes
More housing of more kinds — and the roads, schools, health care and emergency services that make a community work.
Read moreClassrooms that work
High standards, parental confidence and enough capacity as enrolment grows — plus strong routes into the skilled trades.
Read moreBudget for the full cycle
Temporary resource revenue should not fund permanent commitments that become unaffordable in a downturn.
Read moreA floor beneath people
Long-term security for those who need it, and a path back up that doesn't punish people for taking work.
Read moreCalgary-Foothills
Approval is not the same as delivery.
Northwest Calgary is growing rapidly. The provincial government has important investments underway here. My immediate local priorities would be:
- Push for expanded urgent and primary care in northwest Calgary.
- Keep four local public-school projects approved for construction moving toward opening.
- Advance the additional Kincora–Sage Hill elementary school that remains in planning.
- Press provincial agencies and ministries to align infrastructure decisions with actual population and enrolment growth.
- Make the household-cost impact of provincial decisions part of every affordability debate.
An MLA's job is not simply to announce funding or explain why a project is late. It is to build the case, get the decision made, secure the resources and keep pushing until the work is finished.
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