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10 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
A few years ago, @jkenney was stumping around Alberta referring to Fiscal Stabilization as an "Equalization Rebate". #ableg #abpoli
I thought it was disingenuous at the time. A bit of harmless branding.
Now I'm questioning whether it was actually part of a deliberate misinformation campaign.
Conflating the two programs allows the premier to argue that this month's equalization referendum will "trigger" another round of negotiations on Stabilization. It won't.
Will someone in @jkenney's office clarify: does the premier know the difference between Stabilization and Equalization? (If not, that would seem to disqualify him as Alberta's lead negotiator on fiscal transfers and the constitution.)
Or is the premier deliberately misleading Albertans in this month's equalization referendum?

Which is it?

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9 Oct
Troy highlights what I think a lot of Yes voters miss about this equalization referendum: how others perceive Alberta's opening offer. 🧵#ableg #abpoli
Threatening to remove equalization from the constitution is kind of akin to the richest guy in the neighborhood threatening to cut the power cable that runs through his yard if his neighbour's don't pay up.
No one thinks he's serious. Even when he tells them he's polled members of his family who agree with him.
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9 Oct
The Kenney Government's official equalization website is up. And it's... interesting. 🧵#ableg #abpoli
On the Fact Sheet, this is how the government explains equalization. Not sure about you, but this wording and sentence structure doesn't inspire much confidence in the government's ability to engage in constitutional negotiations.
Neither does this. Either the government doesn't know that Stabilization and Equalization are completely separate programs, or they are purposefully lying to Albertans.
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30 Sep
Someone asked me today: what went wrong with Alberta's system of government that led to this catastrophe?

My answer: all democratic institutions rely on elected leaders to identify, agree upon, and pursue the common good. #ableg (Thread/rant)
We live in a Canada's richest province. A province where a majority of MLAs believe it is both politically expedient and in the public interest to allow dozens of citizens to die daily without any meaningful action.
We also live in a province where a majority of voters - and a plurality in more than half of our constituencies - chose to elect those representatives to office. This is the Alberta government we chose. Overwhelmingly. This is our government. And we can't look away.
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29 Sep
Some may have trouble understanding why Nathan Cooper needs to resign the Speakership and why that's important. 🧵#ableg
In a loose sense, the Speaker like the referee. A former Blue team member, Cooper is expected to stop playing the game and act as an impartial arbiter. He can go back to playing, but obviously can't do both at once. Applies to linespeople (Deputy Speakers like A. Pitt), too.
Now... Imagine if a referee wrote an open letter to the head coach of the Blue team condemning his leadership. And the linesperson joined in. This happened. cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
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Alberta is not alright.
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31 Jul
Looking ahead to Alberta this fall, it's challenging to compare other countries' experiences with COVID-19. Here's why. 🧵
Being one of the few (only?) jurisdictions to abandon most testing, tracing, & isolation (TTI) protocols -- the 3 pillars of pandemic management -- Alberta is creating an entirely new environment for COVID-19.

This makes drawing lessons from TTI countries quite tenuous.
When people say "kids in Country X are at low risk for contracting COVID-19," they're probably right.

A good follow-up question: "Did Country X have test-trace-isolate protocols in place?"

If not, it's tough to compare them with Alberta this fall.
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