Livingstone-MacLeod MLA Pat Stier is returning to his riding after the latest session in the legislature wrapped up Tuesday

Stier says the Wildrose party did its best in defending Albertans wishes against many of the bills that were introduced by the NDP government.

"It was a very long session with an awful lot of stuff that came up that was, near the end, quite controversial including the assistance dying bill, and also of course the carbon tax bill, the Climate Leadership Plan they call it, but it's a carbon tax bill," Stier says. "It was a long long battle, we put together a lot of amendments, we didn't seem to be able to get very far with that but we put up the best fight we could anyway."

Stier says it's frustrating putting forward changes to bills and being stopped by the NDP's majority in the legislature.

"There's certainly an awful lot of frustration when all opposition parties working until 4:30 in the morning on Tuesday, had a number of amendments, I think it was over 20, a lot of them made common sense, including by the way to give a little relief to charities not to be involved in the carbon tax," he says. "But this government wasn't listening, they were only going to do what they thought was their preferred way and tax the heck out of everybody."

The southern Alberta MLA says the carbon tax bill will affect more Albertans in more negative ways and be more controversial to the average Alberta than Bill 6, the farm workers safety legislation, ever was.