Kenney is a Dominionist Christian. He believes human rights are divinely bestowed by god through the “inerrant” bible. Natural law supersedes secular law. It’s not just international law rejected. He also rejects the Charter of Rights & Freedoms.
The UCP platform included a commitment to repeal human rights legislation in Alberta. And also to make access to the Alberta Human Rights Commission difficult.
Kenney believes and will legislate that human rights are bestowed by god, not man.
Tried removing access to abortion and medically assisted dying through introduction of conscience rights legislation. That didn’t fly, but the commitment was made, so he will try again.
In other jurisdictions where human rights have been removed, efforts are made to dehumanize those targeted. Rwandan Tutsi’s were likened to cockroaches. Jews were said to eat children and drink blood.
In June, Kenney attempted to remove the constitutional right to protest. He passed legislation, but it’s a matter of time before the Supreme Court rules it is unconstitutional. In the mean time many Albertans are afraid to protest.
Kenney wrote a rage fuelled letter to Amnesty International Canada when criticized for funding a War Room to fight citizens opposed to fossil fuels. Noteworthy that the War Room remains funded, but classrooms received cuts. During a pandemic. nationalpost.com/news/canada/re…
And who can forget Kenney’s complete disregard for indigenous treaty rights? Wet’suwet’en’s second RCMP raid was due to AIMco demanding an injunction be served and access granted before any land claim could be taken to court. Section 35 rights be damned. nationalobserver.com/2020/01/07/new…
Kenney didn’t hide his disdain for Human Rights. He clearly wants to make Human Rights difficult to enforce. He plans on making evidence requirement the same as courts. Requiring lawyers & expensive legal research. Making it inaccessible to most victims. ucpagm.ca/wp-content/upl…
Kenney has been abundantly clear human rights is an intrusion on what UCP believes and represents. Restrictions on religious freedom and impositions on property rights. Those are the rights he prefers.
You’re willfully blind if you haven’t seen Kenney’s attack on human rights.
However, in everyone’s defence...
There are so many social issues under attack it is difficult to be aware of them all. Let that sink in...
There are so many attacks on human rights in Alberta, by UCP, it’s difficult to keep informed. Because of the sheer volume of attacks.
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This is the point Canada has reached by placing trust in radical extremism. Five conservative premiers and one NDP are refusing to protect public health. Every day of indecision and failure to act drives COVid deeper into the population.
Remember Alberta, Feds warned about this in May & June. And repeated cautionary warnings regularly throughout summer that the second wave would be much worse.
Dr. Tam was personally attacked for cautioning reopening was too soon by Kenney.
Kenney wants Alberta public healthcare to fail. Replacing it with private healthcare will be much easier when all medical personnel and hospital workers are exhausted, sick or emotionally broken.
When the population is still recovering from COVid infection, mental trauma from extended isolation, exhaustion from lack of food or struggling to survive because they’ve been evicted.
All the appearance of choice, but the participation in voting changes nothing. Even in overwhelming popular votes. This is the electoral and political system Russia has used since Putin took power.
That is what is being engineered through gerrymandering, voter suppression, vote tampering and blatant cheating.
A tyranny of the minority.
An autocratic state controlled by theocrats, kleptocrats and oligarchs.
Kenney is incapable of altering his ideology. He so fervently believes his own rhetoric about liberty and freedom and god’s will is to let the chosen people decide for themselves as their divinely bestowed rights permit, that he will not intervene to halt COVid.
We can wait. We have example after example of American states collapsing healthcare systems to know what to expect.
This is arrogance, hubris & blind faith in divinely bestowed rights that’s preventing Kenney from acting in the interests of public health vs individual liberty.
That’s why he removed the power of the Chief Medical Officer of Health in April 2020. She unilaterally closed schools and ordered a lockdown in keeping with the rest of the nation. He stripped her of that power very shortly after.
Personal data is the new oil for capitalism. The control of the distribution of resources through personal data aggregation and analysis is the new reality.
Harvesting personal health data is part of that objective. Change laws to make it easier.
@Paulbyjove1@Dave_Khan@jkenney@shandro It is being overlooked. Most focus on individual threat, but this legislation permits the government to harvest data and use it for any purpose they consider “in the best interests” of the public. Consider who UCP sees as the “public.”
Corporations & Dominionist Christians.
@Paulbyjove1@Dave_Khan@jkenney@shandro This legislation permits AB government to transfer individual and aggregated data to Corporate and Faith based entities for analysis, manipulation and influence.
The documentary “People You May Know” revealed that health data (more specifically mental health data) is sought.