Some people take one for the team and watch #ableg on TV, and some don’t have time or are afraid of damaging their own property while watching. So, this can save you some time in the future:
UCP: *Lies*
NDP: They’re lying!
Speaker: Bawls out NDP for accusing UCP of lying.
1/6
NDP: Asks UCP for details on latest screw-up
UCP MLA (reading off a paper Kenney gave them): announces something they already announced.
NDP: Answer the question!
UCP: How dare you!! 2/6
NDP: Rephrases question and asks again
UCP MLA (reading off a paper Kenney gave them): congratulates UCP for something someone else did.
Rachel Notley: 🔥 🔥 🔥 🎯 🎯
UCP: Point of order!
Speaker: Bawls out NDP 3/6
Kenney: 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
NDP: He’s lying!
Speaker: Reminds NDP that they are not allowed to point out that UCP is lying when they lie.
UCP MLA (Reading off a paper Kenney gave them): Gibberish
NDP: Asks for clarification
UCP: How dare you! 4/6
NDP: Presents reasoned request with support from constituents asking to look into how something UCP did went horribly wrong.
UCP: They’re lying!
Speaker: I have to agree. Stop lying, NDP.
UCP MLA (Reading off a paper Kenney gave them): Praises Kenney.
NDP: 😐
5/6
Jason Nixon: Egregiously insults NDP while chortling.
UCP back benchers: Hear! Hear!
Speaker:
NDP: Point of order!
Speaker: Bawls out NDP for raising a point of order.
NDP: 🔥 🔥 🎯 🎯
UCP backbencher: Settle down, kitty cat.
Speaker:
(And now you’re up to date!)
6/6
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Graham Thomson points out how NDP’s 2019 election result was about 24% of eligible Albertans, and so was the ‘yes’ vote on the equalization referendum. Yet Kenney says this 24% is now a clear mandate. Kenney is suprised anyone would question the validity of this!
The follow-up question is that Kenney would need to get other provinces on board with what Alberta wants (>50% in 7 provinces) and what Alberta wants is not the same as what the referendum question asked.
Kenney says that we will start with this demand and then if we don’t get exactly what we want, we will demand a bunch of other stuff that we will also not get.
A municipal election should not be about provincial (or federal) politics. Unfortunately, it is this time, more than any municipal election I can recall. #ableg. 1/
UCP laid the groundwork for this, last year with their Local Authorities Election Amendment Act. Kaycee Madu, then-minister of municipal affairs, declared “The next round of local elections will be critical for the future of Alberta” 2/ globalnews.ca/news/7105836/a…
UCP raised contribution levels and made it possible so that their big donors, who want to hand pick our municipal governments to their own advantage, can donate a larger amount to an unlimited number of candidates. None of it has to be revealed until *after* the election. 3/
When the 1st covid wave hit, the Alberta government acted quickly to put restrictions in place, close the schools, etc. Overall, I can’t fault their initial reaction to a total unknown. But I also can’t help but think of how differently NDP/Rachel Notley would have responded 1/14
Rachel Notley would never have stood in the #ableg in May 2020 and undermined ALL future pandemic efforts by calling covid ‘an influenza’ that is primarily a problem for old people who have already outlived their life expectancy. 2/14
(By the way, did you know that the average age at death for covid has gone down from 82 to 79 since then?) That set the tone. The anti-vaxxing and anti-masking covidiots still spout some version of that. 3/14
Hinshaw and UCP MLAs are quick to bemoan the ‘harms’ from restrictions (while they brag about how few restrictions we’ve actually had) Surely there has been more long term harm in 1.5 years of inadequate half measures and relying on ‘personal responsibility’? 1/4 #FirebreakAB
In October last year and again in the spring when doctors said we needed a circuit breaker to slow the spread and UCP did nothing, they only succeeded in making the problem drag on and get worse, and then inevitably eventually having to impose restrictions. #FirebreakAB 2/4
Retailers lost their Christmas business, kids lost their graduations, and everyone suffered emotional, mental and financial harm because of their inaction. It is even worse now than it has ever been. #FirebreakAB 3/4
I wonder what it would take to get Hinshaw to admit that covid spreads in schools?
Even now, talking about the schools with an outbreak of 10% of kids absent (about 100 and counting), it’s like she’s talking about a fire drill or some minor incident. But with a lot of jargon-babble.
Janet French is asking why parents don’t have the right to know if there are covid cases in their child’s school. Hinshaw says “large scale transmission is schools is not common.” They don’t “drive transmission outwards”. Absolute, unadulterated B.S.
Listening to the Protect Our Province update. @jvipondmd says if the doubling trend continues, we’ll have more than 400 patients in the ICU by Sept. 19. ICU staff says they are full now.
Interesting point about asymptomatic spread—some people have zero symptoms but can still spread the virus. Unlike the flu where if you have it, you *know* you have it and feel bad, so you know to stay home, with covid, you may not have any idea.