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23 Feb

Just days before what will be a critical budget for the future of Alberta, the UCP are breaking tradition and placing barriers to info. We will have 2 hours less access to budget documents than normal and will not be able to discuss with officials from all departments. (1/5)

When we were in government, we ensured that all parties had access to all officials right across government and sufficient time to pose questions and process the information relating to the budget. This access is vital to the work of the official opposition. (2/5)

This is an unprecedented break in legislature decorum and respect for elected members. This is not the first time that this government has shown a lack of transparency. In 2020, they cut deliberations of the budget in half, limiting our ability to represent Albertans. (3/5)

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Rachel Notley

@RachelNotley

20 Feb

One year ago today, Premier Jason Kenney’s Health Minister Tyler Shandro tore up the government’s contract with doctors, plunging Alberta’s healthcare system into crisis. A full recap and my comments in the thread to follow 1/10 #ableg #abhealth

He did this with a deadly pandemic on Alberta’s doorstep. This was a profound failure of leadership.
After the contract tear up and discussions broke down with doctors, Shandro imposed loads of new billing paperwork and cuts to family doctor’s practice. 2/10 #ableg #abhealth

Shandro and Kenney refused to enter arbitration, a constitutional right for workers who cannot strike. This prompted the AMA to launch a constitutional challenge in April. The Kenney government also gave itself the authority to tear future contracts. 3/10 #ableg #abheath

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Rachel Notley

@RachelNotley

18 Feb

Jason Kenney’s Critical Workers Benefit is a confusing maze with criteria that makes little sense and completely neglects some of the critical frontline heroes of the COVID-19 pandemic. #ableg
open.alberta.ca/dataset/c3d814… 1/5

Alberta’s NDP is appalled to see that non-profit workers do NOT qualify — these are people who risked their lives to provide food and care for ailing Albertans, and who gave back to their community, during a public health emergency unlike any we’ve ever seen. #ableg 2/5

As well, the Government has taken $35.6 million of the money intended for workers and given it instead to employers to help with administrative costs? That makes no sense. This money is for workers. #ableg 3/5

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Rachel Notley

@RachelNotley

18 Jan

The risk surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline has been very obvious for some time. Nevertheless, Jason Kenney jeopardized up to $7.5 billion of Alberta taxpayers’ money on this project and now we’re learning it may be stopped altogether. #ableg 1/5
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

While there’s no question that the successful completion of KXL can be beneficial to Alberta’s economy, the Premier has never come clean on the economic and risk analysis associated with his massive gamble. #ableg 2/5

From the moment that Albertans’ dollars were put at risk, Jason Kenney has also continued to reject the importance of a strong environmental and climate policy that would help make the case for KXL. #ableg 3/5

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Rachel Notley

@RachelNotley

9 Dec 20

It’s 3 a.m. and the 2020 Fall Sitting of the 30th Alberta Legislature has concluded. #ableg 1/10

Jason Kenney and the UCP shut down debate on a number of their horrendous bills, including one to strip away workers protections and supports for the very Albertans on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. #ableg 2/10

The Government also rammed through legislation to accelerate their failed $4.7-billion corporate handout tonight. #ableg 3/10

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Rachel Notley

@RachelNotley

9 Dec 20

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In the #ableg tonight as @ChristinaNDP introduces multiple amendments to undo the attacks by the UCP on workers health and safety rights through their cruel Bill 47.

She only as one hour to do it because the UCP introduced closure after only one hour of debate.

They just voted down her attempt to protect coverage for PTSD incurred as a result of trauma in the workplace. This, on a day that leaked information from the Canadian Armed Forces suggested they are warning personnel they may suffer PTSD caring for dying seniors in LTC. Shame.

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