Joseph Schow is calling a point of order on Rachel Notley for having said that ‘the premier continues to denigrate teachers daily.’ Sarah Hoffman says that she knows thousands of teachers who feel that way. #ableg
She is correct.
Nathan Cooper rules that it is a point of order because it ‘imputes unavowed motives’ to Kenney. What a clown show UCP is. 🤡 They are pathetic.
Now Schow wants to ‘elevate the level of debate in this chamber’ because he finds it ‘despicable’ that Rachel Notley said that Kenney probably doesn’t have a lot of young mothers with children in his circle. Christina Gray apologizes and withdraws.
This is a ridiculous charade because everything NDP said is 100% true, and UCP is feigning outrage on technicalities about it. Ric McIver is now upset that they insulted Tom Olsen (because they suggested the $30M from the war room could pay to make schools safer)
Christina Gray says NDP will name individuals who run un-FOIPable government organizations. She also says the point about not insulting people who are not here is laughable, considering the number of labour leaders, etc. that UCP has insulted in the #ableg
Nathan Cooper agrees that UCP has insultingly raised the names of people who are not in the #ableg many times.

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21 Apr
Searle Turton asks Shandro in the #ableg why are teachers not being prioritized for vaccines? Shandro: ‘We depend on Federal Government for supply.’ We can’t give out doses we do not have. Albertans over 40 can be vaccinated including teachers.
Turton follows up with a question about teachers’ risks and concerns about the variants. The variants can affect younger people and does that not put our teachers at risk?
Shandro says the variants are more dangerous for all Albertans, so they are focusing on more vulnerable Albertans first, and will get to everyone when they have supplies. How totally insulting 😤
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21 Apr
🧵 Reasons I think $10/day childcare is a good idea even though my ‘baby’ is 16:
-We never needed to have all 3 kids in childcare at the same time because the 2 oldest were in K-6 by the time the youngest came along. I can’t imagine how we could have afforded it. 1/
-We chose the best childcare we could afford at the time. For the youngest, it was an amazing program, and it was >$800/month (back then!). After our mortgage, it was our biggest expense each month. 2/
-We were so fortunate that his childcare was at the YMCA. An excellent program near our house, with hot meals plus swimming and music lessons, caring instructors, field trips, lots of fun, and he was SO ready for kindergarten. 3/
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20 Apr
On Global News just now, Rebecca Schulz with excuses why UCP likely won’t cooperate on federal childcare. They have to “meet the unique needs of Alberta parents”, 60% of Alberta childcare is privately operated, $25/day only helped some, etc. More reason to dump UCP in 2023. 1/3
UCP continues to mislead about the $25/day *pilot* program. It only benefitted 1% of parents because it was a *pilot*. Toews said yesterday, the federal funding ‘lacks flexibility’ and they have to ‘respect parents’ choice’. Lies & excuses. Totally on brand for UCP. 2/3
What it comes down to is that this may be a huge benefit for women and families, but their friends can’t make a profit off of it, so UCP is not interested. 3/3
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18 Apr
UCP: Forget about all the things we are messing up and all the things we lied about. Here is some new policy or legislation! Promise made, promise kept.

Everyone: Um...that’s really bad.

NDP: Also, here’s what they are *not* telling you about it.

Everyone: Yikes! 1/6
Everyone: That IS really, really bad. It’s terrible.

UCP: No, it’s great! Promise made, promise kept!

Everyone: Seriously, you need to do something about this.

NDP: Here are a few things that might make it better.

UCP: We take no lessons from socialists! 2/6
People who will be seriously harmed by policy: This is going to cause a LOT of harm to people.

UCP: We don’t respond to arbitrary pressure from special interest groups.

UCP donors: Yeah! And besides, if UCP changes this, how can WE make a profit and get extra privileges? 3/6
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18 Mar
I keep thinking about how, after Kenney became UCP leader and got his seat, he pontificated about ‘getting beyond some of the high school-level name calling that's come to characterize our politics recently’ and how he wanted ‘to strike a more stately tone’ in the #ableg 1/5
He wanted, he said, to ‘raise the bar of decorum’. I watched a few minutes of today’s afternoon session and the snide, juvenile, disrespectful, arrogant, and tediously inappropriate rants, diatribes and performances of UCP were an absolute disgrace. Kenney led the way 2/5
They will not answer questions. They act like it is an affront for anyone to want to know more about how they are spending our money, how they will pay for things they have promised, what their plans are for us, etc. You know—their job. 3/5
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17 Mar
In the #ableg right now, Rachel Notley is pointing out Kenney’s many lies and half-truths about how many jobs will actually be created here. Kenney’s typical ‘NDP is cheering against Alberta’.
Kenney is such a ridiculous parody of himself. His arguments are laughable. Rachel Notley “When it comes to job killing, these guys don’t need advice from anybody.”
NDP is pressing UCP on whether there is an ‘actual plan to create jobs’. Kenney keeps saying that there are various companies like Infosys and Rogers intend to create 100s of jobs. That is not a ‘plan’ though.
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