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21 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I've been saying this for months.

The #equalization referendum is all about buying the premier an unlimited flight pass to the rest of Canada so that he can escape accountability for -- and distract from -- his government's handling of the pandemic. 🧵#ableg #abpoli

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22 Oct
I've been studying Alberta political culture & public opinion for over a decade. I've learned that a lot of Albertans feel personally & collectively "left behind" by their governments, and by the pace of economic & social change that is challenging the "Alberta way of life." +
Acknowledegment is important. The continual airing of grievances by politicians who claim to be "standing up for Albertans" may feel good at the time. +
So, too, might spending billions of dollars on failed pipeline bets, war rooms, and public inquiries to identify and target "the bad guys."+
Read 9 tweets
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22 Oct
To Albertans disappointed at your provincial government's inability to:
➡️launch a successful public inquiry, ➡️get an ally on Calgary city council to resign after sexually assaulting a minor,
➡️secure a massive majority against clock-changing... + #AbLeg
➡️win a multi-billion dollar bluff-bet on an international pipeline,
➡️win a Supreme Court case over the carbon tax,
➡️bribe Albertans into get vaccinated using multi-million dollar lotteries and gift cards... +
➡️convince a US governor to change her mind by calling her "brain-dead,"
➡️convince Netflix to pull an animated kids show without elevating it to the top 10... +
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10 Oct
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.
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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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