Albertans: Have your say on @shandro (forms.gle/WoA5ZuVuEren3W…). <Later we will do @jkenney>. One more round of Albertan's opinions before bed. (Again, what follows are the real words of Albertans. Not my words. Unedited)
"Healthcare guarantee"
"Stop ruining our healthcare! Stop being reckless and stop mistreating and disrespecting our incredible doctors! Alberta’s healthcare system is in danger. "
"No private healthcare."
"Go back to arbitration."
"FIRE SHANDRO AND GET BACK TO THE NEGOTIATION TABLE"
"We did not vote for this."
"Stop using the doctors as an excuse to privatize our public healthcare."
"UCP is bad for Albertans"
"Stop trying to fix something that isn’t broken. We have wonderful family doctors and a great healthcare system stop trying to ruin it."
"Make a deal with the doctors "
"Resign!"
"Remove Shandro and work with the doctors"
"Embarrassing dictators"
"The UCP should remember that they work for Albertans not Oil companies. They are destroying our province piece by piece and it’s heartbreaking to watch."
"Newly trained doctors are already planning to leave Alberta once they graduate residency "
"Listen to Alberta doctors."
"Public healthcare means public. "
"To stop trying to privatize healthcare and to work personally with the AMA, instead of trying so many bullying tactics"
"stop spreading misinformation about physician compensation and go to binding arbitration"
This list just goes on and on. @jkenney@shandro I think Albertans are talking to you. Will you listen? In the time it took to post these, more showed up than I posted. Many wrote full letters. #abdocs4patients will be constructing a public website soon...
...All your comments will go on there. Well, there is alot of colourful language. We will check with our legal team to see if those can be posted. Remember, keep it classy. In case we can't post those, your message may not make it out. But keep them coming....
...the next version of this poll will allow you to indicate which MLA is yours, so they can also go to abdocs4patients.ca/public (not up yet) and read their constituents concerns.
Shameless plug. Follow me, retweet the poll (forms.gle/5ybBzp7Aa1BzGQ…), and stay tuned. Your opinions matter to Alberta doctors. We can only hope they matter to your govt. Maybe they matter to your MLAs. #NateHorner Stettler-Drumheller, do they matter to you?
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