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#Ableg News 🧵

2022 is the year of “Really Bad News” for the @UCPCaucus:

🤦🏻‍♂️- Elections Alberta is investigating Kenney (AGAIN!) (Story #1)

🤫- UCP hide documents during FOIP Requests (#7)

👩‍⚖️- A judge warns Kenney about divisive language (#16)

Here’s 17 UCP Bad News Stories
#Ableg News 🧵

So It Begins…

1. Elections Alberta is OFFICIALLY investigating allegations of bulk UCP membership purchases made by Kenney’s camp right before this year’s leadership review

The investigation involves 4,000 new UCP memberships purchased by only 6 credit cards.
#Ableg News 🧵

2. 13 motions to improve accountability & transparency in Alberta’s Lobby Act, including several made by Alberta's Ethics Commissioner, were rejected by the UCP!

It’s noted Kenney has close, secretive “relationships with firms who regularly lobby his government”
#Ableg News 🧵

3. Shocking allegations of a call a lawyer, dissatisfied with UCP changes to Legal Aid Alberta, received from a “Person in Power”

The person said if the lawyer stopped criticizing the UCP, they’d receive “a letter of support to be nominated as a Queen's Counsel”
#Ableg News 🧵

4. Kenney is using taxpayer money to challenge Ottawa for invoking the Emergency Measures Act.

This comes into play after begging Ottawa for help with the Coutts blockade,

Critics say Kenney failed to act, and suing is another expensive political game
#Ableg News 🧵

5. The body representing 1,500 school councils & 50,000 volunteer parents was just defunded, threatening it’s critical advocacy in supporting parent voices

@AdrianaLaGrange is now using a “Minister’s Parent Advisory Council,” with 40 hand-picked UCP appointees
#Ableg News 🧵

6. A new case study reveals the impact of Kenney’s devastating 2021 “plan to transform postsecondary education” which resulted in:

✅ Skyrocketing student tuition
✅ Growing labor unrest
✅ Funding cuts exceeding 30% per student
✅ Plunging Global Ranking
#Ableg News 🧵

7.In a BRUTALLY revealing expose

UCP staffers describe how they’re being pressured by Kenney’s team to avoid FOIP requests, including deleting important emails, and using private apps & personal phones for govt business
#Ableg News 🧵

8. Kenney’s good pal and major UCP organizer, Jonathan Denis, was denied to stay contempt of court proceedings.

Denis was found in contempt of court last month for threatening to sue a plaintiff in the middle of her testimony in a civil trial.
#Ableg News 🧵

9.Alberta’s paramedic shortage has pushed the emergency response system past its tipping point, according to thousands of Alberta’s paramedics and health-care workers

On Monday, 40 people waited for an help as there was zero ambulances available.
#Ableg News 🧵

10. A decision by Kenney’s gov’t to suddenly lay off on-site paramedics at the #YEG Remand Centre, Canada’s largest jail, is “dangerous”.

Not only will this result in an influx of potentially preventable deaths, but will put additional stress on the EMS System.
#Ableg News 🧵

11. Alberta had a “massive increase” in deaths from causes other than COVID-19 among youth.

Over 17-months, 4,214 excess deaths were recorded, inc

- 2,226 COVID-19 (54%)
- 1,180 limited access to primary care (28%)

Experts blame Kenney’s pandemic response
#Ableg News 🧵

12. Kenney’s new $700,000/year “Alberta Parole Board” ONLY reviewed 96 applications since it was created 15 months ago.

By comparison, the Parole Board of Canada reviewed 2,657 applications from Alberta (28X the cases handled by Kenney’s hand-picked donor board)
#Ableg News 🧵

13. A Justice warned the UCP in a Bill C-69 ruling

Don’t use the “'Trojan Horse' metaphor advanced by Alberta, likening Canada to a foreign invading army deceptively breaching our protective walls only fuels suspicion and pits 1 level of gov’t against each other”
#Ableg News 🧵

YIKES!

14. Scotiabank is not renewing its long-running membership in the Alberta-based Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a move that comes at a time when financial institutions face growing scrutiny for their role in contributing to climate change
#Ableg News 🧵

15. Despite promises from the UCP, Alberta has the highest day care rates in Canada, with #YYC more expensive than Toronto!

UCP MLA Rebecca Schultz said “We are on track with reducing parents' fees”, she did not say how they will help reduce rates in the future
#Ableg News 🧵

SURPRISE!!!!!!

16. The UCP list of 59,409 members eligible to vote in the leadership review contains a number of people who didn't purchase a membership

This follows allegations from Brian Jean, who claims thousands of memberships were fraudulently created
#Ableg News 🧵

17. The Alberta Disability Workers Association says the industry is collapsing as it faces a staffing crisis, and it has launched a campaign calling on the UCP to take action.

Low wages and a lack of support from the UCP are stated to be major reasons.
#ableg News 🧵

A special thanks to @high_tequila!

A passionate, dedicated and progressive human who cares about Alberta!

I can’t tell you what to do but please give him a shot.

Follow him!
Also: thanks to @AB_AgainstUCP for pointing out that @ABParentsUnion is a shell for @AdrianaLaGrange and @jkenney: These people represent the worst of the worst!

Please block them!!!?

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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
Read 6 tweets
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
✅ Abstain from voting or participating in the decision Image
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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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