Miranda Rosin

In October 2018, in the lead-up to the Alberta provincial election, Rosin said at a nomination debate about her stance on healthcare: "I think we need to look at a two-tiered system, so that we can get those who have worked hard for their money out of the system if they would like to.” When asked by local media if she would back down from the statements, she refused, then deflected and claimed they should "not [be] talking about words that were said during a forum that have nothing to do with anything relevant to this election.”[5]

In November 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Rosin sent out a political mailer falsely claiming the worst of the pandemic was over. This misleading information contradicted statements from Alberta's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Deena Hinshaw.[6] Rosin would not return calls from reporters to explain her false assertion, but claimed in a Facebook post that "this newsletter was sent to print in early fall when our active cases were below 2,000, but was only delivered to mailboxes this week." Reports from early fall shows that Alberta had 2,097 active cases as of October 8, 2020, the same day Alberta recorded its highest daily COVID-19 case count and implemented new voluntary restrictions for Edmonton.[7] This timeline suggests Rosin would have had over one month in which to realize cases were rising dramatically and had ample opportunity to stop the mailer which arrived in mailboxes on November 19, 2020. Rosin also provided a different account to Canmore Mayor John Borrowman of her decision to send the mailer, whom she told "it was an intentional release of the newsletter" and that "she was supporting her assertion when we talked about it (Friday, November 20, 2020).”[8]

In December 2020, Rosin mailed holiday greeting cards to her constituents using the official emblem of the Alberta Legislature. In addition to making no mention of other faiths, these cards included a scripture from the King James Bible, Isaiah 9:6: “For unto us a son is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor[sic], Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” The use of this scripture was criticized in the media as being "inappropriate."[9]

On January 6, 2021, Rosin published an opinion article on the High Country News website where she questioned the public health and economic impacts of the UCP government's restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the COVID-19 virus.[10]

On the heels of the 2021 United Conservative Party holiday travel scandal,[11] Rosin released a Facebook statement on January 5, 2021 assuring constituents that she had not left the country over the Christmas season.[12] She did not mention in the Facebook post whether she travelled outside of Alberta, and after repeated questions by media to Rosin went unanswered as to her whereabouts over Christmas, UCP spokesperson Tim Gerwing revealed that Rosin had travelled to Saskatchewan to visit family.[13] She was not sanctioned by Premier Kenney.

On January 29, 2021, Progress Report published an article reporting that Rosin improperly claimed nearly $800 worth of meal per-diems.[14][15] According to Legislative of Assembly of Alberta Members' Services Committee orders, MLAs can only claim meal per diems when they are required to travel to a location within the province that is 60 kilometres or more by primary highway from the Member’s permanent resident for the purpose of carrying out duties as a Member.[16] As a resident of Cochrane according to Elections Alberta donation disclosure reports,[17] Rosin was not eligible to claim per diems she had expensed in Bragg Creek and surrounding communities that were closer than 60 kilometres to her permanent residence.