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Joe Ceci

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Apr 5

@ABDanielleSmith

This is disturbing. I just heard the full speech given by Artur Pawlowski at the Coutts blockade.

Are UCP MLAs really going to stand by and say nothing about @ABDanielleSmith getting on the phone with this man?

Here are some highlights from the speech. 🧵 1/4 #ableg #abpoli

The video is from February 2022. In it, Artur Pawlowski:

👉🏼 Tells the crowds there aren't enough RCMP officers or military to stop them
👉🏼 Brags that he has lost count of the criminal charges he has faced
👉🏼Tells the crowd that some might "pay the price"
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🧵 2/

👉🏼 Suggests that his actions are to prevent his children from being enslaved
👉🏼 Calls the members of Alberta law enforcement “gangsters” and “the biggest mafia”
👉🏼 Compares the Coutts blockade to the Alamo, a bloody siege during the 19th-century Texas Revolution

🧵 3/

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Joe Ceci

@joececiyyc

Apr 4

@MLAIrfanSabir

We are calling for the Ethics Commissioner to investigate whether Danielle Smith violated the Conflict of Interest Act during her protracted conversation with a man awaiting trial for inciting violence during the Coutts blockade.

Here is @MLAIrfanSabir's letter. 🧵1/8 #ableg

The conversation between Danielle Smith and Artur Pawlowski showed the Premier using her office inappropriately to further an individual's private interests contrary to the provisions of the Conflicts of Interest Act. That is what we asking the Commissioner to investigate. 🧵2/

Section 3 of the Conflict of Interest Act states, “A Member breaches this Act if the Member uses the Member’s office or powers to influence or to seek to influence a decision to be made by or on behalf of the Crown to further a private interest of the Member..." + 🧵 3/

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Joe Ceci

@joececiyyc

Mar 29

Wow. A leaked cell phone video has just revealed the true extent of Danielle Smith’s coordinated political interference in the justice system on behalf of those charged following the Coutts blockade.

🧵 1/9 #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg

The video appears to capture a Jan 2023 call between Danielle Smith and street pastor Artur Pawlowski, who faces charges of breaching a release order and mischief for inciting people to block public property at the Coutts border crossing in Jan 2022. 🧵 2/

Pawlowski also told a crowd, “For freedom to be preserved, people must be willing to sacrifice their lives. This is our time. If this is our Alamo then so be it.” Prosecutors called Pawlowski’s actions “an overt threat to violence.” 🧵 3/

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Joe Ceci

@joececiyyc

Mar 22

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

@shoffmanAB

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

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Joe Ceci

@joececiyyc

Mar 21

@ABDanielleSmith

Wow. @ABDanielleSmith has been caught lying to Albertans again.

She claims that all of her advocacy for her $20 billion handout has been in public. Lobbyist records prove that was a lie.

🧵 1/6 #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg

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

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Joe Ceci

@joececiyyc

Mar 1

No one is talking about the most underhand part of Danielle Smith's plot to land you with your Most Expensive Summer Ever.

It involves her electricity payment deferral scheme—a plan to pile costs onto bills after the election.

And it's even worse than you think 👇🏼

🧵 1/ #ableg

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/

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