This is an ALEC sponsored policy. (American Legislative Exchange Council). ALEC is Koch Industries among other corporate interests. CPC & Fraser Institute are members though SPN (State Policy Network). These policies are US Tea Party policies.
ALEC Tea Party policies are the entire reason US states are almost powerless to address COVid appropriately at the moment.
These laws have been adopted in the US at the state level, though pressure to adopt them federally was huge during Obama administration.
Basically States who have this policy promise not to deficit budget. So any changes or emergencies that arise mean cuts to existing programs.
This is why states cannot purchase enough PPR for healthcare staff, because it means cutting other programs to pay for it.
So when O’Toole says he supports this policy tool, he’s saying severe austerity measures and inability to respond to emerging threats without removing funding from other essential services is how he intends to address COVid.
Canadians can watch on cable tv the success rate.
Close to 5M infected with COVid and currently over 175,000 dead from inability to perform miracles with the budget restraints some states are forced to operate within.
O’Toole just aligned himself with American style austerity measures and trickledown economics that are killing and infecting Americans at exponential rates.
If you want to live with COVid and have no federal help to address it and it’s impact on peoples lives, pick O’Toole.
If you want better odds, the current LPC federal government has ensured access to PPE, provided COVid economic benefits for individuals and businesses and “supported” provinces financially in order to act when they would have let the disease run rampant.
Seems like a no brainer to me.
You want to create the nightmare US is suffering right now with COVid, elect O’Toole.
You want to remain safe and have a government support public health with funds and social pressure in provinces to step up, elect LPC.
Or you could take a chance on a party that’s never governed before who tells you what you want to hear, like feds can eternally fund school openings fully with their money tree, regardless of provincial neglect. Oh, and not raise your taxes, just wealthy’s & businesses’ taxes.
If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Stick to reality. COVid is a dangerous disease requiring federal and provincial support to mitigate the disease and its impact on the public’s health.
NDP would bury us in debt and CPC would cut off any support.
It’s not even a tough choice. Choose science and living, and the ability to emerge from COVid with hope for the future. Fake fantasy utopias and dismal hellish dystopias can be avoided.
It’s the same strategy that was used for Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplements for citizens over age 65.
Benefits for seniors is actually the province’s jurisdiction as listed in the BNA 1867.
After industrialization in Canada and people began moving to cities and towns, seniors were dying in abject poverty. So the feds stepped in. But not without some constitutional manoeuvring first.
People forget, retirement is a 20th century concept.
Cascading series of failures means individuals are unable to address all the problems. Frankly, I’d be surprised if people were aware of all the failures occurring simultaneously.
This is a strategy.
Multiple serious problems means the electorate is divided in attention.
Some will focus on strip mining at headwaters for most of Alberta’s fresh water supply.
Some will focus on drought and access to water.
Some will focus on NICU imminent collapse.
What few will do because these catastrophic failures are emotionally overwhelming on their own, is to recognize there is one source for all of these problems.
No, it’s not Danielle Smith. She’s just a figurehead.
I always remember Art Finkelstein was a man of Jewish descent who manipulated voter perception ruthlessly to elect some very antisemitic people. Because it made him wealthy and in high demand by the far right.
I remember being called a conspiracy theorist for suggesting the virus existed before December 31, 2019.
But here is proof.
I get tired of skeptics denying all information unless they themselves report it.
How many journalists and pundits immediately labelled people as conspiracy theorists if they read and amplified the knowledge that the virus had been spreading long before the end of December 2019?
In January 2021, the US was attacked by traitors who attempted a coup. Organized by Christian Nationalist extremists (CNP ~ Ginni Thomas) in cooperation with paramilitary groups (Oath Keepers; Proud Boys).
@Garossino A year later, an attempt was made using siege tactics on the capital city and blockade of borders/trade routes.
O’Toole ran for leader on a Take Back Canada platform.
Same people currently in control of Alberta wanted O’Toole to claim election fraud in October 2021.
@Garossino O’Toole is Canada’s Mike Pence.
Expected to facilitate crime by inciting a coup. He is a lawyer and understands the consequences. So he was ousted and replaced with skeezy attack dog MP Poilievre who performed most of the scandalous accusations against PMJT.
By 1935, Hitler had already been in power for a few years and had removed dissent by outlawing opposition parties. The suppression of progressive and pro democracy academics was well underway. The indoctrination of German children had been secured through curriculum changes.
Dissent was difficult because it put the lives of dissenters at risk of death. It was safer and more prudent to leave Germany. Which is what Jewish academics had done a few years earlier. Einstein left in 1932. Before Hitler took power. But Nazis raided his family’s home anyway.