.@MOFA_FAPUM is right about the Pallister PCs using a Corporate-driven US legislation mill for their agenda - but it is much worse than they say. @MBLiberalParty first flagged this last June. bit.ly/315fY1G1/17 #mbpoli #cdnpoli 1/17 
Last spring, Kelvin Goertzen met with a who’s who of the global alt-right-Ted Cruz, Betsy Devos, Russian Oligarchs, a German party w/ holocaust denier neo-Nazis & Reps from Bolsonaro’s brazil. The NDP did not think this was a problem. bit.ly/3c5jdwl #mbpoli #cdnpoli 2/17
One of the people on that call was WV State Senator Patricia Rucker, who is a state rep for ALEC - American Legislative Exchange Council. Some say it drafts “corporate-friendly" bills. That is a massive understatement. They undermine democracy. AlecExposed.org 3/17
Goertzen’s talk of “choice” and “results” is straight from ALEC. There is a reason Pallister appointed him Deputy Premier in charge of legislative affairs. Did the 19 blank bills that were presented back in November just take a while to arrive by mail-order? #mbpoli #cdnpoli 4/17
It is absolutely clear that Pallister and Goertzen’s idea of “bold” ideas is to cut and paste legislation written by ALEC - a US bill mill. To say that ALEC is “Pro-Corporate” misses the point: it is an organization that seeks to dismantle democracy. #mbpoli #cdnpoli 5/17
.@NancyMacLean5 wrote an incredible, must-read book, “Democracy in Chains.” James M. Buchanan, along with Milton Friedman were economists/propagandists who packaged defending Jim Crow as dry policy: “states’ rights” “school choice” bit.ly/3c432zB #mbpoli #cdnpoli 6/17
There was blowback against some of these ideas, pointing out that Buchanan won the Nobel Prize in Economics. There is no such thing - the Swedish Central Bank invented it over the wishes of the Nobel family. From @ft #mbpoli #cdnpoli 7/17
The ALEC/PC/Cons overlap is obvious: K-12 reviews, no school boards, tougher voter ID, scrap project labour agreements, contracting out, selling off public assets & property(parks, land, planes), “labour market friendly” Post-sec, mass introduction of bills. #mbpoli #cdnpoli 8/17
The PCs have sold off air ambulances, public housing, planes, labs, contracted out highways, vaccinations & contracts for Covid-19 enforcement to private security, liquor sales. It’s not growth & for the 1000s who are laid off, it is a cut. #mbpoli #cdnpoli #privatization 9/17
Why have elections when PC policy is being written by out-of-province paid consultants, from KPMG, E&Y, Brad Wall?Our legislation is written by US corporations and ALEC, prepackaged with strategy and spin. bit.ly/3cXCkHY #mbpoli #cdnpoli 10/17
It is NOT just about profits: attacks on universities, unions, student groups, voter ID changes, campaign finance - it is all about depriving political opponents of voting rights, funding & organization to create a permanent conservative government. #cdnpoli #mbpoli 11/17
Conservatives have been trying to make elections irrelevant for decades by enshrining their ideology in laws and constitutions - like worthless, never-followed balanced budget laws to make Keynesian economics illegal and so elections don’t matter. #mbpoli #cdnpoli 12/17
It has to be said, that “progressive” parties have also been duped into putting these ideas into place, as @BCAppelbaum wrote in The Economists’ Hour. US Democrats, UK Labour, Libs, Greens and *especially* Provincial NDP Gvmts in 🇨🇦. #mbpoli #cdnpoli bit.ly/3106SmW 13/17
You might not like politicians, political parties or government. But at least you can vote them out and elect someone who might do something different. You can’t do that to your boss or a bad company. #mbpoli #cdnpoli 14/17
Today’s extreme right & left treat each other as opposites, when they have always shared a hatred of liberal democracy and the law. Communists and fascists both require total control and elimination of opponents to function. #mbpoli #cdnpoli 15/17
The last year has made it *crystal clear* that governments can pick and choose who gets to run a business, who gets to earn a living, who gets health care, who gets an education, who gets rich and who stays poor. The pandemic just made it obvious. #mbpoli #cdnpoli 16/17
We need to understand what we are up against, but if we get organized - we can build something new together. If voting didn’t matter, people wouldn’t work so hard to stop you from doing it. #mbpoll #cdnpoli 17/17
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