Thread by @yomeeks

This is your daily pension announcement: The ATRF is dropping the truth munitions! Check this shit out. Can you say boom?💣💣💣 When they say "public statements" they mean the incorrect MLA statements. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension

atrf.com/teacher/news/c…

This is a new low for democracy. Elected officials saying things that are flat out wrong ("the GOA guarantees your pension!") or injurious to taxpayers ("the GOA assumes all unfunded liabilities!). #handsoffmypension #AbLeg

The MLAs have corrected their press lines, but not (to my knowledge) issued any retractions.

So to clarify: AIMCO broke off negotiations in November.

AIMCO is insisting on the clause that does not give ATRF full decision making control.🤮🤮

#somebullshithere #AbLeg #handsof

So to further clarify: the Ministerial Order was not required because ATRF could have continued to manage the assets as they have (very successfully) for the last 80 years. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension

Other articles have been written that have elucidated the many failures of @jkenney. I won't repeat them here. But I will highlight that policies that have huge effects on Albertans need consultation and engagement first in democracies. (see: coal and parks) #ABLeg #aimcofail

Any changes to the teachers' and central office staff's pension plan deserve a careful review with both stakeholders (see IMCO in ON for example). That is unless you are a mini-MAGA authoritarian.

One of the criticisms of @jkenney is that a large number of his senior staff came from elsewhere. That is certainly the problem we are dealing with here. Treasury Board and Finance DM (Athana) was brought in from BC. Senior staff need to know Alberta. #AbLeg

It is my evaluation that not knowing AB has caused the problem we now have with ATRF. (Well, that and Travis' bread in the bone hatred of unions). The pair of them bought into a slick sell job from AIMCO. #AbLeg

Athana and Travis should both be embarrassed at making backbench MLAs look like fools to their constituents.

Any pension plan member should take the clarification above and go hard at your MLA. The truth has to live. #AbLeg #handsoffmypension