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24 Nov, 19 tweets, 13 min read
Here's a short history of #COVID19AB in quotes from @jkenney, UCP MLAs and staff.

Spoiler: from consistently undermining the threat, to spreading vaccine misinformation, to declaring "Best Summer Ever,"™️ they have got this wrong at every. single. stage.

🧵 THREAD 1/19 #ableg
1. On 27 May 2020, @jkenney called COVID-19 “an influenza that does not generally threaten life apart from the most elderly.”

#ableg 🧵 2/ calgary.ctvnews.ca/concern-arises…
2. “One thing I think we’re learning epidemiologically is that (homeless) population has a very high level of immune resistance, of immunity, and resilience against an influenza of this nature.”
- @jkenney, May 2020

🧵 3/ #ableg theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…
3. "You are required to vacate the premises by noon on that date."
- Then UCP MLA Drew Barnes in May, 2020, as he worked to evict a tenant at the start of the pandemic.

Cruel. #ableg 🧵 4/ pressprogress.ca/ucp-mlas-compa…
4. "Well, 'cause they make more on CERB eating Cheezies and watching cartoons, I guess."
- UCP MLA Shane Getson, September 2020

Oh, and he also called wearing masks "virtue signaling". Clueless and dangerous.

#ableg 🧵 5/

calgaryherald.com/opinion/column…
5. "With the worst of the COVID-19 health pandemic behind us..."
- Miranda Rosin, November 2020.

NOVEMBER 2020!

WHAT?

#ableg 🧵 6/

cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
6. "I don't think it's reasonable for me as a leader to sanction people..."
- @jkenney, 1 January 2021, on why he didn't plan for UCP MLAs and staff who travelled in violation of the UCP government's own public health measures.

#Alohagate #ableg 🧵7/ albertapolitics.ca/2021/01/defian…
7. "Albertans have every right to expect that people in positions of public trust be held to a higher standard of conduct during the COVID-19 pandemic."
- @jkenney, 5 January 2021, backing down on his plan to let #alohagate MLAs off scot-free

#ableg 🧵 8/ edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…
8. "We do not support the additional restrictions imposed on Albertans..."
- 15 UCP MLAs sign an anti-public health letter, 7 April 2021

#ableg 9/ 🧵 calgary.ctvnews.ca/wrong-directio…
9. "Get your vaccine or not... Do your research"
- UCP MLA Angela Pitt, 28 April 2021

#ableg 10/ 🧵

edmonton.citynews.ca/2021/04/28/alb…
10. "The pandemic is ending. Accept it."
- Matt Wolf, 2 June 2021

#ableg 🧵 11/ cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
11. "BEST SUMMER EVER"™️
- @jkenney, 18 June 2021

#ableg 🧵 12/
12. "We just don't see that scenario."
- @jkenney on the fourth wave, 18 June 2021

#ableg 13/ calgary.ctvnews.ca/calls-for-kenn…
13. "Open for good"
- @jkenney, 1 July 2021

#ableg 🧵 14/

macleans.ca/opinion/what-j…
14. "We've been very clear from the beginning that we will not facilitate or accept vaccine passports"
- @jkenney, 12 July 2021

#ableg 15/ 🧵 cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
15. "Thank you for giving us feedback... on our fight against vaccine passports."
- A message from the UCP, as they fundraised based on their opposition to a known health intervention, as the fourth wave crashed into Alberta.
#ableg 16/ 🧵
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
16. "I apologize."
- @jkenney, 15 September 2021, after his 19-day jaunt to Europe, his failed fight against vaccine passports, and his switch from "pandemic to endemic"

#ableg 17/ 🧵

edmonton.ctvnews.ca/i-apologize-ke…
17. "The Honourable Minister Schweitzer, the Honourable Minister Copping, the Honourable Minister Madu..."

16 November 2021: 40 UCP MLAs line up to support @jkenney's disastrous response to the fourth wave.

They are all complicit. #ableg 18/🧵

This is only a sample of how @jkenney and the UCP have misled Albertans, undermined vaccines and played down the severity of COVID-19.

We need an all-party committee to investigate the #COVID19AB response.

Add your own quotes from UCP MLAs and staff below! #ableg 🧵 19/19 END

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15 Sep
In advance of @jkenney's 6 p.m. press conference about his botched pandemic response, let's take stock of his disastrous record.

Spoiler: from the start, his entire approach to #COVID19AB has been defined by cruelty and incompetence. #ableg THREAD 🧵 1/24 macleans.ca/opinion/what-j…
He began by laying off 20,000+ education workers.

Seriously. One of his first actions was ensuring that an additional 20,000+ Albertans had to worry about paying rent, putting food on the table, buying clothes for their kids, etc., etc.

Cruel #ableg 2/24 calgaryherald.com/opinion/braid-…
Then he gave himself and his Ministers sweeping new powers with Bill 10 (and then subverted a review of that decision). #ableg 3/24 calgaryherald.com/opinion/corbel…
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23 May
If you're wondering why Alberta teachers overwhelmingly have no confidence in the Education Minister, here is a brief history of @AdrianaLaGrange's tenure.

Spoiler: she has been out to destroy public education from the start.

🧵 THREAD 1/14 #ableg #abed cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
She began by forcing school boards to remove the word “public” from their name. 2/ #ableg #abed cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
Then the UCP's 2019 budget gutted Education funding by failing to provide a single dollar to cover the extra *15,000* students entering schools. Not one dollar.

And that was after promising to fund enrollment growth. Another UCP lie. 3/ #abed #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/…
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14 Apr
Last year, the @albertaNDP filed a Freedom of Information request seeking all correspondence sent to the Education Minister's office from school boards and superintendents re the K-12 school re-entry plan.

@AdrianaLaGrange denied these records existed. THREAD 1/7 #ableg
An investigation by the Information and Privacy Commissioner followed. It turned out there are hundreds of pages of records.

@AdrianaLaGrange's office simply lied. #ableg #abed 2/7
It turns out school districts across Alberta were begging the UCP government to give them resources to keep students safe. They raised serious concerns about the inadequate school re-entry plan. #abed #ableg 3/7
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5 Jan
.@jkenney is still hiding from the public and dodging questions about the resignations and demotions of many of his closest UCP colleagues. This act of political cowardice wasn't the first time he's gone missing.

A few examples:

THREAD 1/ 6 #Ableg calgarysun.com/opinion/column…
At the end of 2019, the UCP fired the election commissioner who was investigating the UCP's own leadership election. One of the most brazen acts I've seen in my time in politics.

Where was @jkenney? Hiding in Texas. Silent, cowardly. #ableg 2/6 thestar.com/edmonton/2019/…
As the second wave of #COVIDAB hit, @jkenney went missing for 10 days. Silence. No leadership. During that time, 73 Albertans died.

#WhereIsKenney trended for days. #ableg 3/6 edmonton.ctvnews.ca/albertans-aski…
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3 Jan
We're all rightly angry about the arrogance and entitlement on display in the UCP vacation scandal, but remember that @jkenney's entire approach to the pandemic has been defined by cruelty and incompetence.

Here's a few main points.

THREAD 1/13 #ableg globalnews.ca/news/7551875/k…
He began by laying off 20,000+ education workers.

That was one of his first actions: ensuring that an additional 20,000+ Albertans had to worry about paying rent, putting food on the table, buying clothes for their kids, etc. Cruel. #ableg 2/13 calgaryherald.com/opinion/braid-…
He gave himself and his Ministers sweeping new powers with Bill 10 (and then subverted a review of that decision). #ableg 3/13 calgaryherald.com/opinion/corbel…
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25 Sep 20
Since @jkenney does nothing these days except complain and try to distract from his record, let's give him a reminder.

THREAD

Before the pandemic, his disastrous policies were already seeing Alberta shed jobs by the tens of thousands. 1/16 #ableg #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…
When companies began to leave or refuse to relocate in Alberta because of @jkenney's destructive policies, he demonized them instead of changing course. Brilliant strategy, Premier. 2/16 #ableg #abpoli #UCPincompetence thelogic.co/news/alberta-g…
He cancelled all the programs that were diversifying our economy: from film to clean energy, everything got cut.

It will take years to recover from this vandalism. 3/16 #ableg #abpoli taprootedmonton.ca/news/2019/11/0…
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