Thread by @BarbLarochelle

Let’s parse this ridiculous and insulting claim. UCP says the nurses currently cost $141 million per year more than ‘comparator provinces’. (in a province where *everyone* makes more). And we’re expected to believe that reducing this figure by 3% will help 1/5

https://twitter.com/jkenney/status/1413509474946404356

prevent Alberta’s finances from ‘running into the ground’. Really? Taking $4-5 million away from nurses puts even a fraction of a dent in how much UCP threw away on KXL? Or corporate no-job tax cuts? Or the money losing refinery? 2/5

How much are the pay increases for the new loyalty-rewarding ministries plus all their new staff going to cost? How much is your Open for Summer Tour costing us? Nurses, like the teachers you will no doubt attack next, have been losing their buying power year after year. 3/5

Salaries have not kept up with the increased cost of living. Public sector workers are ALSO taxpayers and participate in the economy. What do they cut when wages are cut? Spending on new vehicles, furniture, restaurants, entertainment, home renovations and repairs, etc. 4/5

You know that vilifying unions plays well to your base that you are desperate to bring back onside with UCP. But we’ve all seen enough to know that this is more lies and gaslighting. At least stop insulting our intelligence by claiming to support & respect the public sector. 5/5