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Feb 24, 2022 18 tweets 16 min read Read on X
Budget address time!

Mostly so far a bragging list of companies that have come to Alberta and projects that have started.

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Toews invokes Ukraine and pivots to ethical oil.

We’re staying classy is seems.
From the health budget, everything stays the same or gets a bump except for Support services and Physician Compensation and development.

That should attract and retain docs to Alberta…

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Oop! Time for a story!

Larry the pipe fitter. Downturn hurt him. He suffered from mental health issues.

Toews wants to help Larry.

No idea if Larry was once from Venezuela tho…

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Here’s eduction.

An increase of just over $100 million.

Not sure how much that addresses burgeoning class sizes or the additional resources needed for a new “curriculum”.

School facilities dropped though.

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Childrens services.

A decrease to early intervention services to children and youth.

A decrease to the Alberta Child and family benefit as well.

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Community and social services..

Modest increases across the board except for…

Homeless and Outreach Support Services. They get a $7 million cut.

Good thing houselessness isn’t on the rise.

Oh…

Wait…

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Ministry of justice.

Minor increases, no big line item for a provincial police force yet.

Oh!

But we did cut funding to the Victims of Crime Fund!

So that’s super gross.

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Toews is going on about how Alberta is the economic engine of Canada.

Takes the victory lap on a balanced budget.

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TIER isn’t doing great in this budget…

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And theres the pay cuts…

Health and education are both getting major compensation changes.

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Toews goes back to Larry.

Larry was called back to work.

No mention of the field or if there was any retraining. Sounds like Larry went back to pipe fitting?

The UCP saved Larry! Not oil prices, the UCP!

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And things are adjourned until March 7th!

Kenney needs to get on that victory tour!

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Almost $1 Billion cut from Municipal Sustainability Initiative too.

Yikes.

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As much as the UCP are taking a victory lap on their financial acumen, this table tells us a lot.

Almost A BILLION in increases in transfers from the feds.

But fair deal, right?

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Here’s the balance sheet.

If anyone can explain why Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Economic development was 4X its budgeted amount and then cut in this years budget, we’re super curious…

@andrew_leach? @trevortombe?

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The revenue is wild.

They gained 10 BILLION in resource revenue over 2020-21.

Also, Berta, we might need to talk about how much revenue we’re generating through gambling.

Plus, looks like tuition is going up…?

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In case you were wondering where a big chunk of that gaming revenue is going…

$40 million to Horse Racing and Breeding.

And $300,000 to Airport Entertainment Centers.

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We're gonna call this the start of the RCMP "We announced a presser yesterday but forgot to set it up until well after it was supposed to start" Presser thread.

Strap in, because this will be wild!

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If you're looking now, this is the current link.

They deleted the first one they sent out after they broadcast an RCMP computer desktop.

Now the tech guy is sighing loudly again and says "well this is just my life".

You can't make this up.
Current link.

Till it gets deleted and they start a new one.

youtube.com/live/tYUKjpn_t…
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