So, the AB Auditor General can't figure out where all the COVID money ($4B, that's Billion, with a B) went to, what it was spent on & whether goals were attained. And in 2020, there was $1.6 B the AG said was lost in accounting errors or something. What I would like to know is...
What changed? This was not the norm before the UCP formed government. Presumably every department has accountants, and protocols for tracking expenses and revenue, right? And it was working. So, what happened?
Was there a massive turnover in civil servants? Did all the good accountants go somewhere else at the end of 2019? Did the UCP drastically change all the protocols for tracking money through departments? Why would they change systems that were working to systems that don't work?
Wouldn't you think after the AG report for 2020 where it was shown they lost track of $1.6 Billion, they would either go back to the old systems that worked, or try to, I don't know, fix what wasn't working? Instead, they went from $1.6B to $4B they can't exactly account for.
What happened? Where did the money go? Why don't the UCP know where the money went? How can they UCP call themselves fiscally responsible when their books are leaking billions of dollars every year? #abpoli
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The Alberta Auditor General has released the report on the 2021 fiscal year. The report outlines $4B in COVID funding and spending but the UCP can't show where it went or what, if any, objectives were met. #Ableg#abpoli
This is why the federal government needs to attach strings to any funding to Alberta. The UCP cannot be relied upon to use funding as intended. They cannot seem to manage money at all. $4B is an awful lot to have just sort of "vanish". Some examples...
"The province received $1.3 billion in federal funding...We could not trace funds through to the recipient ministry results analysis section to see who spent the money and what was achieved." So, money came from the Feds, and then "poof!", disappears in a cloud of paperwork.
Every time I go to the dentist they have a tv playing in the ceiling & it is always set to the Food Network or something. And every time there's this same show in which a large guy eats an insane serving of food is a ltd period of time. Man vs Food. And every time I wonder, Why?
Apparently, there have been 9 seasons of this show. In which a (probably unhealthily) large guy consumes multiple extreme portions of food with a timer running. Again, Why?
Agent: I have an audition for you!
Out of Work Actor: Oh? Yeah! Let's do it!
Agent: It involves timed eating of huge plates of food. It could kill you..."
We are seeing a thing happening in Canadian political discourse that is completely contrary to democracy. We are seeing people, almost exclusively on the far-right, trying to silence any other voices. You can't have democracy without a variety of voices.
Democracy means everyone has a voice, even if it's only at the ballot box. But we have the freedom to write letters, emails, and call our representatives to tell them how we feel about an issue. We have the freedom to speak publicly about how we feel about issues.
But there are those, on social media and in real life, who strive to silence any voices that disagree with them. They do it by trolling, hounding people with whataboutisms, insults, spurious attacks, and threats.
I am going to try to work through this thought process, and I welcome correction from voices I respect... @ironbow I especially want your take on this.
I am a Canadian woman. I have stood up for the rights of women and girls all my life. I also have sought to be an ally for Indigenous issues and BLM and the LGBTQ2+ community. Everyone has rights. Whether they are recognized or not.
When Roe V Wade was overturned 2 days ago, I felt it deeply. Yes, that is in the US, and so far, only about half the states have a ban. But it is robbing women of their human rights. I felt that deeply for them, and also
My feelings today are a mix of grief and rage for my American sisters. And anxiety for Canada. And it is not about me. I am not going to be pregnant again. Just need to say that for those who don't understand why someone would care about anything that doesn't affect them directly
And there are a lot of people like that. I don't know how we can get people to understand that we all need to care about each other. We are a collective organism. When we hurt other people, we ultimately hurt ourselves.
If we decide to cut way back on education, we eventually have a society where the people we rely on for making bridges that don't fall down, health care that heals people, and putting in pipes that don't leak, don't have a good education. Haven't been taught to think.