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15 Oct, 12 tweets, 2 min read
I have read it. Here's my take on what it means.... #ableg
1/12
Policy 1: Cutting services to reduce debt
Policy 2: Referendum about equalization
Policy 3; Right to Work legislation/union-busting
Policy 4: Support to O&G
Policy 5: Out-of-court traffic charges settlement
2/12
Policy 6: Control spending and dramatically reduce size of government (i.e. fire public employees and cut the programs they deliver)
Policy 7: Privatize all support services
Policy 8: Take Alberta pensions out of CPP
Policy 9: Reassurances about elderly in care
3/12
Policy 10: Take over taxation from the feds
Policy 11: Bring in private health care
Policy 12: Cut environmental regulations to allow corporations unfettered access
Policy 13: "balance" economic growth with environment (whatever that means)
Policy 14: invest in AI
4/12
Policy 15: Protect communities from Safe Consumption Sites
Policy 16: Create and Alberta Police Force
Policy 17: Make education stream towards specific jobs
5/12
Policy 18: remove caps on numbers of surgeries performed (which is tough to do without more surgical theatres, unless they get private for-profit interests to build them)
Policy 19: recall legislation (last thing they enact before the next election?)
6/12
Policy 20: Pressure Ottawa to expedite approvals for projects
Policy 21: Support O&G
Policy 22: Prevent public services from impeding the profits of private businesses
Policy 23: Kill the teacher's union
Policy 24: repeal Bill 10 (Emergency powers)
7/12
Policy 25: Increasing investment in caring for seniors
Policy 26: Try to develop a petrochemical industry to use more natural gas
Policy 27: Allow "hot potato" citizen sponsored referenda (think abortion, LGBTQ2+ rights, etc)
Policy 28: Exert much more control over teachers
8/12
Policy 29: Prohibit budget deficits by municipalities - municipalities will not be able to pick up the slack on social programs

9/12
It appears they are looking to privatize or cancel all public services and social services, while handing the extraction companies a carte blanche to do whatever they want.

10/12
They want to break up unions and drive wages down, reduce benefits, and reduce workplace health and safety regulations, because those things cost companies money. Lost profit. They want to get their grubby paws on our pensions and make us pay for health care. 11/12
They want to make it possible for groups like Wilberforce Project to force a referendum on abortion, or LGBTQ2+ rights. They want to make education based solely on work skills. We will be poorer, sicker, dumber by the time they get through. Is this what you want, Alberta?
12/12

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10 Oct
While all conservative premiers are moving in the same direction - allowing more for-profit health care, encouraging private education, gutting environmental & labour laws - I think Kenney is the test balloon to see how fast this can be done to all of Canada if the CPC form gov't
Of all the conservative premiers, Kenney is the most ideologically driven, almost fanatical. And he really doesn't care much what people think. The others are a bit more timorous, worried about backlash. Kenney is going in guns blazing...
And, by conservative calculation, Alberta is the most ripe for harvesting. The far-right has a stronghold here, more so than any other province. There are fewer voices that will stand up and call the UCP out.
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Shane Getson put his foot in it at a town hall in Alberta recently when he suggested Albertans receiving CERB are lazy and spending the money on cheesies and drugs while watching cartoons.

Seems like political suicide to say that about your constituents, eh? 1/25+
Only, not only did Kenney not ask for his resignation, he backed Getson up. And then his issues manager, Matt Wolf, got busy doubling down. 2/25+

Employers are complaining that their employees are refusing to go back to work because of CERB. But let's unpack that a bit, shall we? 3/25+
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1 Oct
Ever have thematic problems? One year it was water problems. The basement flooded 2x. Then a toilet mysteriously overflowed while we were out & damaged the drywall in the basement. Then the septic alarm went off in the middle of the night & we had to get an emergency service 1/5
Then the outdoor tap froze and cracked and created a huge ice sculpture attached to the side of the house. And the shower leaked and had to be seen by a plumber 3 times before it was resolved. And then the dishwasher hose came unattached... 2/5
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18 Sep
So, Ontario is going to go to the polls early. Following New Brunswick's lead. Will Manitoba and PEI and Alberta follow? Saskatchewan has an election coming in November... 1/25 #cdnpoli
What would move premiers to call an election, several years ahead of schedule, during a pandemic? Ford has until 2022. So does Legault. Kenney & Pallister both have until 2023. It seems unlikely Kenney will call an election. Albertans aren't as sweet on him any more 2/25
Higgs had until 2022, but he called it early. What, indeed, would move these conservative premiers to call an election with years left on their mandates? During a pandemic, no less? 3/25
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16 Sep
And here we see, in real time, a Canadian reporter attempting to smear government MPs. Ms Walsh is not the only one, but the example handy. She links the MPs with a notice from the ethics commissioner's office. No explanation. 1/15 #cdnmedia #cdnpoli
It implies the MPs are in trouble with the ethics commissioner. They are not. Nevertheless, conservative trolls are already squawking on social media about another Liberal ethics violation, where there is none. This is very poor journalism. 2/15
This is using omission of an explanation to cast shade on innocent people. I have no doubt that Canadian media know that most people will not read past the very first couple of lines. They are planting the suggestion of malfeasance by omitting any detail. 3/15
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10 Sep
What are we to do when our MEDIA picks favourites? What are we, as a society, to do when journalists are part of the right-wing propaganda machine? #cdnmedia
What are we to do when Canadian journalists repeat conservative talking points as facts, without verification? When they use tentative terms, like "claims" or "alleges" when reporting government statements, and absolutes like "says" and "stated" when reporting CPC statements?
What are we to do when #cdnmedia look to junk "think-tanks" like the Fraser Institute and the Canadian Taxpayer's Federation to paint a picture of reality? What are we to do when our fourth estate has been bought and controlled by those who are not interested in our public good?
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