Understand that Alberta is an oligarchy.
Sure things here might not be quite as bad as Russia or parts of the US, but that doesn’t make the way our petro-state oligarchy runs okay.
#ableg #cdnpoli
#BoycottUCPdonors
Sure things here might not be quite as bad as Russia or parts of the US, but that doesn’t make the way our petro-state oligarchy runs okay.
#ableg #cdnpoli
#BoycottUCPdonors
https://twitter.com/rbreich/status/1499108172354580480
Government officials frequently wear hoodies declaring their loyalty to #oilandgas oligarchs.
It’s pathetic how out-in-the-open this is, yet people do nothing.
It’s pathetic how out-in-the-open this is, yet people do nothing.
This relationship means hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars are transferred from the public to private hands every year in the name of #oilandgas.
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https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1374575881058848771
By donating money to cover pipeline projects cancelled by Obama, Kenney has picked “winners and losers.”
The winners are profitable #oilandgas companies. The losers are citizens who are really paying for that corporate welfare.
#ableg #UCPcorruption
nationalobserver.com/2021/06/09/new…
The winners are profitable #oilandgas companies. The losers are citizens who are really paying for that corporate welfare.
#ableg #UCPcorruption
nationalobserver.com/2021/06/09/new…
KXL was sending profits to Russia:
“40% of the steel created [for KXL] was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz, a company 31-percent owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend.”
desmog.com/2017/02/13/abr…
“40% of the steel created [for KXL] was manufactured in Canada by a subsidiary of Evraz, a company 31-percent owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who is a close ally of Putin and a Trump family friend.”
desmog.com/2017/02/13/abr…
Kenney has been tweeting that “if Canada really wants to help defang Putin, then let’s get some pipelines built.”
But the #oilandgasindustry companies he’s been using your tax dollars to support for KXL have been sending money to Putin’s friends all along!
#UCPcorruption
But the #oilandgasindustry companies he’s been using your tax dollars to support for KXL have been sending money to Putin’s friends all along!
#UCPcorruption
And #TMX too!
“The EVRAZ steel mill in Regina is maker of 75 per cent of the pipe for the ongoing Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project.”
#cdnpoli #oilandgas #Ukriane #Russia
“The EVRAZ steel mill in Regina is maker of 75 per cent of the pipe for the ongoing Trans-Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project.”
#cdnpoli #oilandgas #Ukriane #Russia
https://twitter.com/djclimenhaga/status/1498672105650536464
Where does this leave ordinary citizens?
“there are 1,000 fewer teachers funded by the government than when the #UCP took over in 2019.
There will be $117 million in new school fees & taxes.”
from @CupeAB
#abed #ableg #UCPcorruption
alberta.cupe.ca/2022/02/25/a-b…
“there are 1,000 fewer teachers funded by the government than when the #UCP took over in 2019.
There will be $117 million in new school fees & taxes.”
from @CupeAB
#abed #ableg #UCPcorruption
alberta.cupe.ca/2022/02/25/a-b…
And the healthcare crisis continues:
“Alberta's healthcare system is in serious danger and it's about to get worse; that's according to doctors on the frontlines of the province's fifth COVID-19 wave,”
w/ @shazmamithani & @RajSherman
edmonton.ctvnews.ca/it-s-unaccepta…
“Alberta's healthcare system is in serious danger and it's about to get worse; that's according to doctors on the frontlines of the province's fifth COVID-19 wave,”
w/ @shazmamithani & @RajSherman
edmonton.ctvnews.ca/it-s-unaccepta…
The healthcare crisis here isn’t just because of covid.
“Jason Kenney is following through with his pre-pandemic promise to expand private services into Alberta’s health care system, moving to double the number of private surgeries.”
—from @Magusiak
pressprogress.ca/jason-kenney-i…
“Jason Kenney is following through with his pre-pandemic promise to expand private services into Alberta’s health care system, moving to double the number of private surgeries.”
—from @Magusiak
pressprogress.ca/jason-kenney-i…
Even the Department of Justice has seen major cuts.
From 2020-2024, “operating expenses will drop nearly $100 million, or about 6.5 per cent.
Alberta Justice will lose 198 positions in the next year, about a quarter of all public sector jobs being cut.”
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
From 2020-2024, “operating expenses will drop nearly $100 million, or about 6.5 per cent.
Alberta Justice will lose 198 positions in the next year, about a quarter of all public sector jobs being cut.”
cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
These cuts to education, healthcare, justice, AISH, and almost ever other department are naked austerity. What’s the point of all this austerity?
It pays for the corporate welfare that enriches oligarchs and the wealthy in the province.
#ableg
jacobinmag.com/2020/11/jason-…
It pays for the corporate welfare that enriches oligarchs and the wealthy in the province.
#ableg
jacobinmag.com/2020/11/jason-…
Public education gets cut…
The 2022-23 education budget will have a 1.7% increase in funding, while enrolment and inflation are expected to increase by 2.7% & 3.2% respectively.
This is a net reduction is per-capita spending in Real dollars.
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
The 2022-23 education budget will have a 1.7% increase in funding, while enrolment and inflation are expected to increase by 2.7% & 3.2% respectively.
This is a net reduction is per-capita spending in Real dollars.
cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…
…while hundreds of millions of dollars are spent subsidizing elite private schools.
This is effectively state sponsored segregation by wealth. The poor subsidizing the rich. #abed
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This is effectively state sponsored segregation by wealth. The poor subsidizing the rich. #abed
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https://twitter.com/youseepeeyyc/status/1301240594056929280
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