Brian Jean is making a promise that if he is the next premier of Alberta his first act will be to ensure that the Senior Aging in Place facility in Wood Buffalo will be constructed. The Wildrose leader is leveling accusations that seniors and low income residents of Alberta are being displaced by his PC opposition, and this is part of a long running feud. Jean stated “If I am the next premier of Alberta, this will be my first act: to make sure that Wood Buffalo gets a seniors’ Aging in Place facility in this location. If elected, a Wildrose government will build a complete Aging in Place facility right here in partnership with the municipality. What you see right now is 42 homes that don’t exist anymore for low-income Albertans,”

The Aging in Place facility has seen numerous delays, and Brian Jean is promising that if he is elected this project will be a top priority for his administration. 42 low income housing units were demolished in order to make space for the new senior facility, but Jean has criticized the fact that these units were destroyed without any land set aside to replace the low income housing units no longer available. Wood Buffalo Housing has made an argument that using the site exclusively for seniors is not a plan that is financially viable, and Brian Jean has pledged to address this issue as well. According to Jean “They were trying to play politics with with the lives of seniors and it is finished. There is no greater example of their failure to meet the needs of seniors in Alberta than right here in Fort McMurray at the Willow Square seniors facility, which should be built here but isn’t.” According to MLA Scott “The fact Brian quit on a whim and wasn’t here to deliver to the region is something he has to explain to a lot of people and that’s why he is doing this. This is rewriting history. We ended up spending millions on buying Willow Square. We moved money from one level of government to another instead of investing that money into the region.”