On Monday, Smith was asked if her time as a lobbyist for her $20 billion handout is a conflict of interest now that she is pushing for this plan as premier.
Smith responded that “All of the advocacy that I ever did was always in public.” 🧵 2/6
However, lobbying records show that Smith met with then Energy Minister Sonya Savage, as well as the UCP energy caucus and an official from the Alberta Energy Regulator, during her time at Alberta Enterprise Group. 🧵 3/6
As @KathleenGanley says, “You can’t trust anything Danielle Smith says, especially regarding her $20-billion giveaway. She clearly wants to move ahead with it, but won’t share any details until after the election.” 🧵 4/6
Danielle Smith's plan is simple: lie to Albertans until the election, and then spring her $20 billion handout on the province after the polls close. It's the same story on her plot to withdraw from CPP and set up an Alberta Police Force.
We just can't trust her. 🧵 5/6
Albertans deserve better. They deserve a government that will invest in Alberta's future, not in Danielle Smith's friends and insiders.
In just a few weeks, they will have a chance to elect an Alberta NDP government that will scrap this $20 billion handout. 🧵 6/6 #ableg#abpoli
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Shocking. Danielle Smith is spending six times what the Kenney government spent on advertising.
She spent $4M in January and February alone! (An entire provincial election campaign has a spending cap of $3.2M.)
She's using Albertans’ money to prop up her campaign. 🧵1/4 #ableg
Figures released to the Alberta NDP on Tuesday afternoon show the Government of Alberta spent more than $4 million on advertising in January and February alone, a roughly six-fold increase — 614 per cent to be exact — over the $658,000 spent during the same months in 2022. 🧵 2/4
The figures were provided to us in response to a Freedom of Information request, mere hours after @shoffmanAB went public with concerns the government had passed a supplementary spending bill in the Legislature that brings its total advertising war-chest to more than $9M. 🧵 3/4
After the UCP lifted the Alberta NDP rate cap, electricity rates shot up.
Recently, the UCP brought in a program where any charges over 13.5c/KWh go into a debt repayment program to be paid back by Albertans on the Regulated Rate Option (RRO) between Apr 2023 and Dec 2024. 🧵2/
This is forecasted to add $200 million in debt onto Albertans’ power bills, according to University of Calgary economist Blake Shaffer.
The UCP is actually pushing Albertans into debt. 🧵 3/
In 2019, when Jason Kenney's UCP were gutting public services, Smith complained that they were "not going far enough fast enough" and that they did too much to spare "health and education from the knife". 🧵 2/
In March 2020, she said (falsely) that "hydroxychloroquine cures 100 per cent of coronavirus patients within six days of treatment." 🧵 3/ cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…
In June, @ABDanielleSmith promised to scrap the UCP's unprecedented fee to access Kananaskis if she became Premier.
Is she going to live up to her words and repeal this levy, which piles costs onto Albertans who are already facing an affordability crisis? 🧵 1/5 #ableg#abparks
After nearly a half century of being open for Albertans, the UCP imposed the Kananaskis Conservation Pass in 2021, which has taken around $15 million dollars from Albertans accessing their own backyards. 2/ 🧵
While the UCP claimed that the money from the Kanaskis fee would be totally reinvested in Kananaskis, it was recently revealed that $2 million a year was being spent on a private security firm to enforce compliance with the K-Country Pass. 3/ 🧵
Wow. An @albertaNDP freedom of information request shows that the UCP spent millions of dollars advertising to Albertans about affordability programs, some of which do not even exist.
They're spending your money to lie about how they're saving you money. 🧵 1/7 #ableg#yyc#yeg
Albertans are struggling through a cost of living crisis, the with costs of food, utilities, fuel and more going through the roof. 🧵 2/
A freedom of information request obtained by the Alberta NDP shows that the UCP Government ad campaign called “Putting money back in Albertans' pockets” was launched with a $3.5 million budget. 🧵 3/
It's one month since Danielle Smith was sworn in as Premier.
Here are a few things she's done IN ONE MONTH. #ableg 🧵 1/15
She began by calling people who refused vaccination "the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime."
From day one, she had no understanding of the province she wants to lead, or the struggles of the diverse people who call Alberta home. 🧵 2/
She refused to give people in Calgary-Elbow representation because she was afraid of losing in #yyc.
(If Smith won't run here herself, someone else could have run for the UCP. But apparently she thinks Calgarians don't deserve a representative.) 🧵3/ globalnews.ca/news/9189193/d…