#Ableg News 🧵
2022 is the year of “Really Bad News” for the @UCPCaucus:
🤦🏻♂️- Elections Alberta is investigating Kenney (AGAIN!) (Story #1)
🤫- UCP hide documents during FOIP Requests (#7)
👩⚖️- A judge warns Kenney about divisive language (#16)
Here’s 17 UCP Bad News Stories
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So It Begins…
1. Elections Alberta is OFFICIALLY investigating allegations of bulk UCP membership purchases made by Kenney’s camp right before this year’s leadership review
The investigation involves 4,000 new UCP memberships purchased by only 6 credit cards.
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2. 13 motions to improve accountability & transparency in Alberta’s Lobby Act, including several made by Alberta's Ethics Commissioner, were rejected by the UCP!
It’s noted Kenney has close, secretive “relationships with firms who regularly lobby his government”
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3. Shocking allegations of a call a lawyer, dissatisfied with UCP changes to Legal Aid Alberta, received from a “Person in Power”
The person said if the lawyer stopped criticizing the UCP, they’d receive “a letter of support to be nominated as a Queen's Counsel”
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4. Kenney is using taxpayer money to challenge Ottawa for invoking the Emergency Measures Act.
This comes into play after begging Ottawa for help with the Coutts blockade,
Critics say Kenney failed to act, and suing is another expensive political game
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5. The body representing 1,500 school councils & 50,000 volunteer parents was just defunded, threatening it’s critical advocacy in supporting parent voices
@AdrianaLaGrange is now using a “Minister’s Parent Advisory Council,” with 40 hand-picked UCP appointees
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6. A new case study reveals the impact of Kenney’s devastating 2021 “plan to transform postsecondary education” which resulted in:
✅ Skyrocketing student tuition
✅ Growing labor unrest
✅ Funding cuts exceeding 30% per student
✅ Plunging Global Ranking
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7.In a BRUTALLY revealing expose
UCP staffers describe how they’re being pressured by Kenney’s team to avoid FOIP requests, including deleting important emails, and using private apps & personal phones for govt business
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8. Kenney’s good pal and major UCP organizer, Jonathan Denis, was denied to stay contempt of court proceedings.
Denis was found in contempt of court last month for threatening to sue a plaintiff in the middle of her testimony in a civil trial.
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9.Alberta’s paramedic shortage has pushed the emergency response system past its tipping point, according to thousands of Alberta’s paramedics and health-care workers
On Monday, 40 people waited for an help as there was zero ambulances available.
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10. A decision by Kenney’s gov’t to suddenly lay off on-site paramedics at the #YEG Remand Centre, Canada’s largest jail, is “dangerous”.
Not only will this result in an influx of potentially preventable deaths, but will put additional stress on the EMS System.
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11. Alberta had a “massive increase” in deaths from causes other than COVID-19 among youth.
Over 17-months, 4,214 excess deaths were recorded, inc
- 2,226 COVID-19 (54%)
- 1,180 limited access to primary care (28%)
Experts blame Kenney’s pandemic response
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12. Kenney’s new $700,000/year “Alberta Parole Board” ONLY reviewed 96 applications since it was created 15 months ago.
By comparison, the Parole Board of Canada reviewed 2,657 applications from Alberta (28X the cases handled by Kenney’s hand-picked donor board)
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13. A Justice warned the UCP in a Bill C-69 ruling
Don’t use the “'Trojan Horse' metaphor advanced by Alberta, likening Canada to a foreign invading army deceptively breaching our protective walls only fuels suspicion and pits 1 level of gov’t against each other”
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YIKES!
14. Scotiabank is not renewing its long-running membership in the Alberta-based Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a move that comes at a time when financial institutions face growing scrutiny for their role in contributing to climate change
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15. Despite promises from the UCP, Alberta has the highest day care rates in Canada, with #YYC more expensive than Toronto!
UCP MLA Rebecca Schultz said “We are on track with reducing parents' fees”, she did not say how they will help reduce rates in the future
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SURPRISE!!!!!!
16. The UCP list of 59,409 members eligible to vote in the leadership review contains a number of people who didn't purchase a membership
This follows allegations from Brian Jean, who claims thousands of memberships were fraudulently created
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17. The Alberta Disability Workers Association says the industry is collapsing as it faces a staffing crisis, and it has launched a campaign calling on the UCP to take action.
Low wages and a lack of support from the UCP are stated to be major reasons.
#ableg News 🧵
A special thanks to @high_tequila!
A passionate, dedicated and progressive human who cares about Alberta!
I can’t tell you what to do but please give him a shot.
Follow him!
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Massive thanks to:
@AB_AgainstUCP (the human behind all of this)
@youseepeeYYC @MichelletypoQ @SeanDunn10 @JasonPYYC @DrJayDrNo @DirkSamantha @Mitchell_AB @TheBlueGem3 @OhMyItsPoliSci @jkenney @fakeezzie @scottheidi576 @gthomsonink @YYCCowboy @TheBreakdownAB @kim_siever
Also: thanks to @AB_AgainstUCP for pointing out that @ABParentsUnion is a shell for @AdrianaLaGrange and @jkenney: These people represent the worst of the worst!
Please block them!!!?
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