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#Ableg News 🧵

It was a stinker of a bad news week for the @UCPCaucus

👩‍🎓- LaGrange’s education cuts create chaos! (Story #3)

😔- The UCP kick 40,000 vulnerable Albertans off health care plans! (#5)

🎭 - 5 UCP DRAMA STORIES!(#7-11)

👀 Here’s 16 bad news UCP stories this week
#Ableg News 🧵

1. Kenney is accused of hiding a report showing how Alberta auto insurance providers collected over a $1,000,000,000 more than they paid out in 2020!

Despite this: Auto premiums went up significantly over the past 2 years- after @jkenney removed the rate cap.
#Ableg News 🧵

2. The Alberta Ombudsman is calling out the Kenney gov’t to make MAJOR changes to the AISH appeal system

He ruled that under the UCP, Disabled Albertans wanting to challenge their provincial disability benefits are facing a system that isn’t fair and troubling.
#Ableg News 🧵

3. #YEG’s public school division is projecting a MASSIVE funding shortfall for nearly 1,700 students (roughly 76 full classes) in the upcoming school year.

The blame falls on the UCP’s new education funding model. “we’re coming to a bit of a breaking point.”
#Ableg News 🧵

Uh oh 😳…

4. As mail-in ballots for the UCP “leadership” review were delivered this week, at least one voting package was sent to a non-party member's home in St. Albert

Critics suggest this “has the potential to be abused or to be managed incorrectly."
#Ableg News 🧵

💔 Heartbreaking…

5. A new report shows the UCP suddenly kicked 40,126 vulnerable Albertans off their provincial medical plans for drug coverage in 2019 after removing dependents of seniors from coverage

This unfairly targeted women & dependent grandchildren
#Ableg News 🧵

6. UCP MLA Jason Nixon is called a bully following a fiery exchange where he swore at the Speaker Nathan Cooper.

Ex-UCP MLA Loewen asked Cooper to sanction Nixon for “breaching the privilege of (Loewen)” and “committing contempt against the entire assembly.”
#Ableg News 🧵

UCP Drama 🎭!

7. Brian Jean says if he becomes UCP leader, he’ll reopen the UCP nomination process to allow disqualified candidate Tim Hoven a chance to seek the party nomination vs Jason Nixon

He called Nixon a bully and is unsuitable to be an MLA
#Ableg News 🧵

More UCP 🎭!

8. UCP MLA Jason Stephen BLASTED Kenney during #Ableg.

In a formal member’s statement he didn’t mention Kenney by name, he talked about unity, trust, cheating and leadership.

Stephen is one of several UCP MLA’s who demanded Kenney step down.
#Ableg News 🧵

9. UCP 🎭

In a new Rick Bell piece, 7 current UCP MLA’s speak out against Kenney, including Angela Pitt, Leela Aheer, Richard Gotfried and Dave Hanson.

Most claim Kenney’s team are “not engaged…not accountable. Their focus is not on what is best for Alberta.”
#Ableg News 🧵

🎭

10. In response to the Rick Bell piece, a key Kenney staffer tweeted “the criticism was from “the same old crew” and posted a GIF of dancing clowns

UCP Pitt fired back “This is exactly the kind of bullying & intimidation happening every day from Team Kenney”
#Anleg News 🧵

🎭

11. Kenney says Albertans are unimpressed with the UCP drama and he has been “too soft on dissenters”

Opponents say this is a Kenney made “situation exacerbated by low poll popularity…and he ditched the grassroots ethos for a top-down, centralized command”
#Ableg News 🧵

Liar Lair 🤥

12. A UCP’s “attempt” to protect caribou is overshadowed by Kenney claiming he received indigenous support

He “misrepresented our involvement & support…the UCP actions are a breach of confidence and unsupportable” said a Dene Tha' First Nation rep
#Ableg News 🧵

More Kenney Lies 🤥

13. Kenney is caught lying about a so called “Truck Tax”: after he tweeted about a “laurentian elite tax on trucks” - experts came back this week proving it is NOT a liberal proposal nor under consideration.

Why would he make this up? 🤔
#Ableg News 🧵

14. Despite 759 tickets filed against individuals & businesses who broke COVID-19 rules, only 104 (14%) were actually paid.

There remains about 70+ tickets outstanding, and the majority of them were thrown out
#Ableg News 🧵

15. It’s official: Alberta has the WORST vaccination rates in Canada with 46.8% of Alberta adults have had a booster

That’s compared to the Canadian average of close to 60%.

Alberta is the ONLY province in Canada under 50%
#Anleg News 🧵

16. Despite UCP MLA Copping telling reporters Alberta saw increases in virus circulation and hospitalizations and 49 deaths, he claimed it’s maybe “hit it’s peak”.

Alberta Wastewater levels are now about to surpass the worst numbers during Omicron’s peak.

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More from @JasonOnTheDrums

Feb 6
#Ableg

In the last 7-days #Abpoli called out 3 news stories with VERY suspicious origins, including:

🎤 A CTV interview about the anti-abortion poll…with a UCP organizer

💰 A daycare operator who is sabotaging $10/day care

📉 A non-existent polling firm

Let’s jump in!


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#Ableg Story #1.

The "Association of Alberta Childcare Entrepreneurs" shutdown several daycares protesting $10/day care and blaming the Fed’s

However, CEO Krystal Chucher lobby records showed she’s ONLY upset with the province’s bad funding model

She’s also a major Smith stan

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#Ableg Story #2

On Friday, Albertans received calls from an obscure polling firm regarding anti-abortion rights

CTV interviewed only one guy; Justin Vung

Strangely, they did NOT check Google and see his stance as a fervent anti-women's rights activist and key UCP organizer

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Oct 31, 2023
#Ableg

Yesterday, Alberta saw 2 of the most undemocratic, anti-Canadian bills in our history.

Bill 3 and 5 mark a new low.

Rock Bottom.

Let’s go through these gross abominations and see if you agree
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#Ableg.

Bill 3: Opioid Damages & Health Care Costs Recover

Vulnerable Albertan will be mandated to forced labour (to UCP employers) to “recover” costs of mandatory treatments

Marshall Smith, Danielle’s drug “expert” was BUSTED for a similar illegal operation when he was in BC Image
#Ableg

Bill 5: Public Sector Employer Amendment

Under the guise of a “single public payer”, this all but sets up an Alberta Revenue Agency, which collects federal taxes to circumvent the Canada Revenue Agency.

This is part of Danielle’s secretive “Free Alberta Strategy” Image
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Oct 4, 2023
MASSIVE #Ableg shoutout to @CorbLund

Corb is calling out SNEAKY UCP Minister of the Environment @rebeccakschulz and the Australian Benga Mines secretly applying to operate coal mines.

Let’s look at the timelines and what Rebecca is attempting to hide from Albertans….

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#Ableg

1. 2021-22 Benga Mines application to operate an open pit mines was REJECTED 2X over concerns of the massive environmental damage they’d cause

It was so bad that UCP Enviro Minister, Sonya Savage, put a moratorium on future applications

However…that was under Kenney
#Ableg

Enter Danielle Smith and Sneaky Rebecca Schulz…

2. On June 9, 2023, sneaky Shultz was sworn in as Minister of Environment and Protected Areas.

Rebecca promised to “protest our beautiful landscapes”…but let’s see what ACTUALLY happened…

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Oct 3, 2023
#Ableg

Sneaky UCP MLA @rebeccakschulz, Minister of the Environment and Protected Areas, has a MAJOR credibility problem.

Let’s look at 3 recent decisions made under her watch that raises MASSIVE questions about her suitability for this important role…

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#Ableg

1. Mountain Ash Ltd.

This private project has MAJOR concerns due to the HUGE impact to groundwater resources and threats to the Big Hill Provincial Park

Despite the MASSIVE red flags, Rebecca STILL approved it AFTER she was lobbied by a major UCP donor in July 2023 Image
#Ableg

2. Open Pit Coal Mines in Grassy Mtn

In 2021, Enviro Minister Sonya Savage issued an order blocking Benga Mines from applying for open pit coal mines

In 2023, despite this moratorium, Banga Mines secretly reapplied AFTER Rebecca Shultz dept was Lobbied by a UCP Donor Image
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Oct 2, 2023
#Ableg

It’s been 7-days.

@rebeccakschulz continues to hide from Albertans as her husband is paid by O&G to convince Rebecca to change 5 laws environmental laws and protected areas

Let’s explore Alberta’s Conflict of Interest act, simplified for Rebecca

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#Ableg

1. Are MLA’s allowed to personally benefit from legislative decisions?

- NOPE! 🚫

The Act says Members MUST NOT participate in decisions that MAY benefit themselves, their partners, their associates, or their children.

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#Ableg

2. What if a decision POTENTIALLY involves a private interest?

If a decision POTENTIALLY involves a private interest (such as Rebecca’s husband lobbying to make legislative changes) the MLA MUST:

✅ Declare it
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Sep 29, 2023
#Ableg

UCP Environment & Protected Area Minister @rebeccakschulz is pretending there’s no conflict of interest as her husband is lobbying to change environmental laws and regulations.

Let’s look at 5 policies he’s looking to change and YOU decide if there’s a conflict….

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#Ableg

1. Cole is lobbying to “cut administrative burdens” in Alberta’s “TEIR carbon pricing strategy” in order to help maximize O&G profits.

TIER (Regulation 133/2019) falls DIRECTLY under Rebecca’s portfolio as our Environmental and Protected Areas Minister
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#Ableg

2. Cole Schulz is lobbying to change “Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)”

This involves promoting incentive and support for CCUS projects to develop underground storage models for “acid gas disposal” 😳

This program is under ASO Rebecca’s Enviro Ministry
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