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#Ableg News 🧵

This was the WORST Bad News Week for the UCP in 2022!

😳 Smith’s New Cabinet faces NUMEROUS questions (Story #1-4)

🤦🏻‍♂️ Alberta makes (embarrassing) international news…2X! (#11-12)

🚨 2 UGLY #Abpoli Polls for the UCP (#18)

Here’s 18 (YUP!) bad news UCP Stories
#Ableg News

1. Danielle Smith was forced to defend having one of the largest + expensive executive councils in #Abpoli history

Smith dismissed a suggestion she’s “rewarding supporters and garner loyalty among MLAs” by saying she’s against “top-heavy gov’t models against AHS”
#Ableg News 🧵

2. Smith was ALSO questioned about why she had the FEWEST women (19%) in her new executive council of ANY Canadian province by a significant margin!

Smith scoffed and said she’s “a woman”

An expert in Gender & Women Studies labelled this a “dudebro cabinet" 😥
#Ableg News 🧵

3. New changes to UCP cabinet portfolios signals protections for 95% of Alberta’s parks, rec areas & wildlands are in jeopardy

Experts warn moving Alberta’s parks away from the Alberta Envio ministry places an “emphasis on industrial development; not protections”
#Ableg News 🧵

4. The UCP was forced to clarify which new ministry is in charge of key labour laws after a HUGE omission in an Order In Council

The Occupational Health and Safety Act and Labour Relations Code were MISSING

The NDP called it “frustrating and disheartening”
#Ableg News 🧵

5. In a bizarre moment, Smith said she’s cancelling an agreement involving the WEF as she “won’t work with a group that talks about controlling governments”

🤦 The “deal” was AHS sharing ideas with leading health researchers at Harvard University & Mayo Clinic
#Ableg News 🧵

6. Four unions repping over 122,000 Alberta health workers came together to “insist” a meeting with Health Minister Copping to improve Alberta’s health care and avoid a rash review that could further destabilize a health system in crisis

Copping did not respond.
#Ableg News 🧵

7. Alberta’s former CMOH says Premier Smith could be on a DANGEROUS path by repeating her “sights are set” on major changes at AHS

Dr. Talbot stated the toll will be far worse without action to protect public health during numerous waves of the disease: not cuts!
#Ableg News 🧵

8. One group is THRILLED BY Smith attacking AHS and health care workers….An Ottawa hospital said it will be happy to take health-care workers from Alberta.

Their recruitment campaign is focused on Danielle Smith’s recent comments at the UCP AGM.
#Ableg News 🧵

9. Smith’s proposal to grant amnesty to those fined for violating COVID-19 public health orders may amount to “political interference” in the justice system said @loriain_h, a UofC health law expert

Smith’s seeking legal advice to find ways to overturn decisions
#Ableg News 🧵

10. As Smith is promising pardons & compensation, an Alberta Court of King’s Bench dismissed an appeal of an Edmonton church pastor fined for blocking entry to an AHS inspector who was trying to see whether COVID-19 masking & social distancing rules were in place
#Ableg News 🧵

11. For the 3rd week in a row, Smith made international news.

Fox News discussed her plan to pardon residents fined or arrested over breaking C19 protocols, and her apology to unvaccinated Canadians

The story included Rebel media and a rogue street preacher
#Ableg News 🧵

12. Alberta also made international news after 1990’s comedian and anti-vaccine activist Rob Schneider posted praise for Danielle Smith.

Responding to a tweet of a video of with Smith denouncing health mandates and vaccines, Rob said “Alberta has a real leader.”
#Ableg News 🧵

13.Roads around #Ableg were closed as OVER 4,000 Teachers, parents & education advocates demonstrated support for Public Education, asking for it to be a top priority for Alberta’s elected officials.

It was noted that Education Minister LaGrange did not respond.
#Ableg News 🧵

14. The Law Society of Alberta announced that the hearing into Tyler Shandro conduct has been rescheduled for January 2023.

The Justice minister is facing 3-counts of unprofessional conduct for multiple events in 2020, and at risk of suspended or disbarred.
#Ableg News 🧵

15. Questions are being raised over Smith’s presence at a grand opening event at Medicine Hat College

Smith is running in a byelection in Brooks-Medicine Hat

Experts suggest this may be “blatant political opportunism” and against Albertans ethical legislation
#Anleg News 🧵

16. #YEG -area politicians are skeptical after Smith said she’s been lobbied to now allow political parties at the city level.

The Mayor of #YEG was surprised !by this as he wasn’t consulted, suggesting this adds further polarization in politics

(@reportrix)
#Ableg News 🧵

17. An Alberta judge ruled the February order to lift masking requirements for young students was "unreasonable" as it was ultimately made by the UCP Cabinet NOT the CMOH.

This is considered a breach of the Public Health Act and NOT in the public interest
#Ableg News 🧵

18. 2 New Polls aren’t promising:

Ledger:
NDP 44%
UCP. 42%
Notley: 36%
Smith: 22%

Navigator:
NDP: 53%
UCP: 38%
Notley: 47%
Smith: 22%

The low polls are linked to Smith offering “blanket amnesty” for those violating public health restrictions & attacking AHS#

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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.

Rebecca CAN NOT touch ANYTHING Cole is lobbying Image
#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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