Thread by @youseepeeYYC

This coming from the guy who has threatened the livelihoods of every healthcare worker in the province, while @shandro yells at doctors in their driveways, & who’s policies have prompted hundreds of doctors to close their practice &/or relocate. In a pandemic.

#abhealth #ableg

https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1393666172550213633

Sources to support claims to follow:

#ableg #abhealth #covid19ab #shandemic

“Health Minister Tyler Shandro said the UCP government would rip up the existing contract and impose changes to billing and compensation after talks with the Alberta Medical Association broke down.”

via @DrewPAnderson, Feb, 2020

#abpoli #abhealth

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

“Dr. Mukarram Zaidi says Premier Jason #Kenney appears to condone Shandro’s behaviour.”

via @jennierussell_ & @charlesrusnell, March, 2020

#shandemic #ableg #abpoli #abhealth

cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Why was @shandro so upset?

“Jason Kenney’s health minister holds shares in a private company that connects customers with private insurance coverage for things he’s recently cut.”

via @pressprogress, April 2020

#shandemic #ableg #abhealth #FiretheUCP

pressprogress.ca/albertas-healt…

.@shandro's wife forwarded emails from her company to her husband's office. His staff responded.

(There were jokes at this time that the best way to reach the minister was to email his wife as many people had difficulty getting a response from the #UCP MLA.)

#shandemic 👇

https://twitter.com/charlesrusnell/status/1244328161183027200

The news of this prompted Dr. Mukarram Zaidi, a neighbour of Shandro’s, to post this image online:

“So every Albertan that I can kick off healthcare is another client we can sign up for Vital Partnets! We’re going to be RICH!”

via reddit: reddit.com/r/alberta/comm…🔗

#ableg

When the matter came up in #ableg, the #UCP shut down discussion of this problem, stating that Shandro’s shares in Vital Partners were held in a blind trust.

(If that was true, why were emails being forwarded?)

via @djclimenhaga

#abhealth #shandemic

albertapolitics.ca/2020/03/tyler-…

Here's the letter that Ethics Commissioner, Marguerite Trussler, produced for #ableg declaring that there were no grounds to investigate Shandro's conflict of interest. It was dated March 20th, 2020.

Really? No grounds?🤔

#UCPcorruption #BoycottUCPdonors #abhealth

Bear in mind, that was only ONE DAY after @karliwithakay posted her thread showing that "Health Minister Tyler Shandro is part owner of private health insurance corporation 'Vital Partners.'"

Ethics Commissioner Marguerite Trussler was quick!🤔

#abpoli

https://twitter.com/karliwithakay/status/1240764822637047808?s=20

In the month leading up to all this attention on the Health Minister was cuts. 3,900-4,900 potential job reductions @abhealth.

"@UnitedNurses received a letter saying AHS would look to cut 500 full-time nursing positions"

via @Jantafrench, Nov. 2019.

edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…

The #UCP cut the wage for specialists in training from $18.27/h to be on call to $11.50/h.

"We are always looking to recruit and this certainly won't increase our ability to get more physicians." - Dr. Noel DaCunha

via @emily_senger Nov. 2019. #abhealth
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

Before the 2019 election, "Kenney said the UCP would maintain or increase health spending and maintain a universally accessible, publicly-funded health-care system." (...) “There will be no cuts.”

via @dustin_cook3 Feb 2019.

#abhealth #ableg
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…

The #UCP won the election and of course there were cuts, though they tried to deny it.

Yes, Virginia, "there is absolutely – inarguably – a health-care budget cut occurring."

via @shmitzysays Dec. 2019.

#abhealth #ableg #FiretheUCP
medicinehatnews.com/commentary/opi…

On November 29th this letter was sent to @_AUPE_

"Earnst & Young has been contracted by the [#UCP Govn't] to conduct a comprehensive review of all AHS, AHS Subsidaries & Alberta Health operations."

Full text here: aupe.org/sites/default/…🔗

#ablabour #canlab

For their $2 Million contract, Ernst & Young's 220 page report recommended consolidations, reductions, "optimizations," and outsourcing.

Basically cuts and austerity run through a thesaurus.

It can be found here: alberta.ca/alberta-health…🔗

#abhealth #ablabour #canlab

The @ParklandInst reviewed the 220 page "pro-privatization attack on workers."

"The findings are a mix of results from the review process, literature review, and UCP platform talking points."

via @McIn_Ali

#abhealth #ableg #ablabour #UCPcorrption

parklandinstitute.ca/review_of_ahs_…