A prominent United Conservative candidate and a southern Alberta school district are accusing each other of spreading misinformation, or at the very least of being very, very mistaken.
During a candidates forum hosted by the Cochrane and District Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Peter Guthrie, the UCP candidate for Airdrie-Cochrane, said Rocky View Schools “outright lied” to parents, “to tell them that they received nothing in the budget.”
Guthrie was referring to a May 9 email to RVS district parents.
The letter does say, “RVS received disappointing news that the Alberta government did not include our division in the school projects approved for 2023 construction funding.”
It goes on to say, “RVS was granted design funding for an elementary school in southwest Airdrie and preliminary planning funding for three other schools (new Airdrie high school and new Cochrane and Chestermere elementary schools).”
Guthrie told the forum the school district received …