Thread by @NagwanYYC

The UCP’s budget is full of contradictions.

A thread 🧵:

They talk about ‘responsible fiscal management’ but are too willing to spend $20 billion of public money on corporate welfare: theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta… #ableg #abbudget /2

Toews said they’d built the ‘most competitive business environment’, but their refusal to listen to the digital media tech sector means ON, BC, & other jurisdictions will benefit from the job creation & investment while we lose out digitalalberta.com/alberta-budget… #ableg #abbudget /3

They admit to having ‘revenue volatility’ in a resource-based economy but won’t take steps to stabilize Alberta’s revenue rollercoaster or attract new investments. /4

https://twitter.com/NagwanYYC/status/1630736360373112833?s=20

#abbudget #ableg

Toews talked about transparency and discipline, but the UCP shows an alarming pattern of behaviour that says otherwise. The UCP set up an election slush fund that is anything but transparent. They like funding friends instead of supporting Albertans: cbc.ca/news/canada/ca… /5

When asked whether they’d lay off all the healthcare/ed workers they hired if oil prices crashed again, as they did in 2020, Toews said, “we managed through that.”

Did we? Or did we see staff shortages spike because of burnout & mass exodus? #ableg calgary.citynews.ca/2022/03/25/alb…

Toews said they reinvested in ‘our world-class post-secondary institutions,’ but the UCP cut roughly $700M from their budgets less than a year ago. Alberta has the highest tuition across the country and the lowest amount of gov. student financial aid. theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta…

For the last four years, the UCP has shown us who they are, whether fighting with doctors, using public money on corporate welfare or finding ways to enrich their friends.

It’s time to choose a government we can count on.

It’s time to choose better: albertasfuture.ca