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The United Conservative Party will commit to returning Alberta to a flat tax on income, ensuring equal funding for private schools and increasing privately funded, privately delivered health care services if proposed draft policies are adopted by UCP members this spring.

UCP members last week received a 21-page draft policy framework drawn up by a party committee ahead of the party’s May founding convention, where policy is to be set by the party rank and file.

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Janice Harrington, executive director of the UCP, said the ideas put forward in the document are simply there to begin a debate within the party that over the next few months will see members amend or reject the framework policies and add their own proposals.

“These are strictly starting point documents for discussion only. We want to make that very, very clear,” said Harrington in an interview Wednesday.

“It’s a committee of a very small number of members, and broader member consultation needs to happen.”