I’m at the Heritage Fund meeting, where Aimco is here to answer questions about their performance in investing our Heritage Fund. We have some big questions about Aimco’s performance relative to their own benchmarks for the past several years. #ableg
The govt is currently trying to obfuscate Aimco’s performance relative to their own benchmarks. In fact, they even tried to hide this performance, by withholding information on their performance, in the first-quarter Heritage Fund update. #ableg
The Heritage Fund belongs to ordinary people. Not bureaucrats. Not high-flyin traders. All of us. Most of its value is the tremendous resources working class Albertans pulled out of the ground during the Lougheed-era oil boom of the 70s. We expect it to be stewarded. #ableg
Aimco’s CEO has had $12 million of Albertans’ money direct deposited in to his bank account over the past 5 years. He’s the highest-paid public servant in the province. It’s his job to hit their own performance benchmarks for investing our Heritage Fund. He hasn’t. #ableg
Today, my colleagues and I will be asking some very direct questions about Aimco’s performance. Remember: this is the folks that lost $2BILLION in risky trading schemes that made Aimco a laughingstock. #ableg
Remember: Aimco is the group of folks that Jason Kenney wants to hand your CPP over to. #ableg
Remember: if you’re a teacher, nurse, school custodian, front-desk clerk at a city or town, firefighter, or any of the hundreds of thousands of Albertans who defers income in to a modest public sector pension plan, Aimco now controls the investment of your pension. #ableg
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I want to provide a little bit of context for the criminal charges recommended by ASIRT - as a consequence of Lethbridge Police Service officers who targeted me while I was a Minister of the Crown.
I am not surprised the Crown Prosecution Service is not acting on the ASIRT recommendation. This happens frequently when ASIRT recommends charges, to the point where it appears there may be a systemic issue related to resources, expertise, or other solveable problem.
To me, the Crown's declining to proceed is not the real issue here. The real issue for me is that ASIRT undertook a fulsome investigation and found what I've known for years: that my records were accessed in 2018 for no lawful purpose other than political intimidation.
Today, we accepted fiscal recommendations from @theToddHirsch on mgt of volatile resource revenues, investing the surplus and meeting Albertans’ expectations of balanced budgets & prudent fiscal management.
A good day to be a Finance critic. Proud to serve on Rachel’s team.
After only one term, Finance Minister @TravisToewsUCP is retiring.
I wish him well & I mean it sincerely. I do not admire his record (thread below), but he conducts himself with decency and is mostly grounded in reality, unlike the new crop of Smith candidates.
Thread. 🧵#ableg
Mr. Toews spent much of his time as Finance Minister performatively focused on fiscal responsibility, but he doubled the deficit in 2019 and in 2020 and 2021 tabled the largest deficit budgets in Alberta’s history. #ablegedmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…
To extend a fairness to my opponent that was NEVER extended to the NDP when the price of oil tanked in 2015, Toews faced an oil price shock. But part of those deficits was $1.3b in the Keystone debacle globalnews.ca/news/7939964/a…
UCP leadership candidate & fmr FinMin @TravisToewsUCP told a “Free AB Strategy” (?) mtg he supports a provincial police force and admitted it will cost Albertans more.
Add this to the Toews Tire Fire of $1.3 billion blown on his pathetic negotiation skills on Keystone XL and his total failure to protect ABs against obvious risks.
And $30 million/year wasted on the embarrassing warroom. #ableg
Toews is also responsible for putting a 4% wage rollback on the table for nurses, chasing them out of the profession during a pandemic, and digging a bigger hole in health care.
But he’s got a blank cheque for Firewall Fever Dreams like a provincial police force. #ableg
Let's review what we know from the reporting by @CBCMeg and what has come from matters heard at QB last week. Mr. Chu was the subject of an internal investigation. He was found guilty on one count of discreditable conduct, and a 5-year letter of reprimand was put on his file.
Importantly to our story, an external file review (again, by police, just a different police service) found no reason to pursue the matter on a criminal basis (!), so off they went back to CPS for what amounts to a human resources hearing. "Professional standards," they call it.
That feeling of being constantly on edge vis a vis my own safety has been something I have also lived with for more than 6 years.
For me, it hasn’t been people defacing my office so much as *literally* being targeted by the local police force. #lethbridge#yql
The first examples of targeting and victimization were justified - by the officers themselves - by their disagreement with my political decisions. There were no substantive consequences for those actions, and in fact the LPS hid the disciplinary process from me!