Senior Leader, Board Director, former MLA. Chair of @CalgaryMetroReg and Balancing Pool, Director at @LocalInvestingYYC and @cspaceprojects. Tweets are my own!
Apr 16 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
Each time Alberta has established an Electoral Boundaries Commission to redraw election maps the government has accepted the commission’s majority report, so I was surprised and disappointed to learn that a committee of MLAs has instead been tasked with creating a new map. /1
As a member of Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission, I wanted to share some background on why we give independent commissions the job of creating election maps and also provide some details on what’s in the majority report. /2
Feb 14, 2019 • 22 tweets • 11 min read
Since Tuesday’s meeting where the @albertaNDP and @Alberta_UCP voted together to cut funding for smaller parties in #ableg, I've run a few scenarios. Now that we know the final formula, it's actually worse that I thought. Here's some background on this: edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/… /1
Under the NDP/UCP plan, as majorities get bigger, proportionately less money goes to small opposition parties, even if they reach the new magic number of four MLAs for official party status #ableg /2
