If you're making a video about the Canada "we know and love", maybe you shouldn't be using pictures of Utah's rockies, or the "foothills" of Indonesia?
🧵Here's a my thread of all the clips I have confirmed to NOT be Canadian. 1/ #cdnpoli #canpoli
So the guy looking at the tractor hauling hay bales and wondering why they didn't choose his stock photo from the same set with an actual combine, is in Ukraine.
Danielle Smith contemplates if the Canada Health Act needs to be thrown out due to its principles, such as universality which she argues should not cover all hospital and physician services.
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One of the simpler ways for Smith to get around the Canada Health Act is to have a friendly federal government in power.
The next clip is from April 2022 where she is talking with Gordon Tulk, the person who originally gave her the idea of health spending accounts.
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Danielle Smith & Rob Anderson contemplate making agreements with Ron DeSantis and other "free states".
(Rob is now executive director of the premier's office)
From May 15, 2022 (after she re-entered politics on March 31).
🧵1/4 #ableg#abpoli
Danielle Smith gets her legislative ideas from Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem? Pardon me?
"Ron DeSantis has put forward multiple different pieces of legislation that we would also parallel..." 2/4
Danielle Smith:
"Was watching with great interest what leaders like Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem were doing"
"I would have preferred to see our leaders have a coalition of the free states. Why couldn't our conservative Premiers have been working with red state governors..." 3/4
🧵Preston Manning has already written a report of a fictional investigation into the government handling of the COVID pandemic with a future date of June 5, 2023. /1 #ableg#abpoli#cdnpoli
The report reads like Freedom Convoy fan-fiction. I'll be picking out the sections that stood out to me, but there's just so much absurdity in it that I can't tweet them all. /2
Let's begin a journey into Preston Manning's imagination, into a "fictional, futuristic description of that investigation" into the COVID pandemic. /3
🧵Once Albertans get accustomed to Health Spending Accounts, Premier Danielle Smith wants to eliminate coverage for general practitioners, forcing you to pay for each visit to your family doctor or walk-in clinic. /1 #ableg
For Danielle Smith, the introduction of Health Spending Accounts is the first step towards her vision of a US-style Health Care Insurance system with deductibles and co-payments for Albertans. /2
Danielle Smith does not believe in 100% publicly funded health care. Instead she argues that "the only option" is to allow people to use "their own money to pay their own way" for health care. /3