Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦

I’m not here much. But am still an opinionated Canadian, living in Alberta. Committed to family, faith, inclusion and integrity.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@validmavericity No. But she just saw the Angus Reid poll citing 49% of Albertans think she should resign.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@validmavericity Understatement is your superpower.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

While I commend this decision, I fear it leaves the position open to a person with less integrity, who is beholden to the UCP.

[Rusty Idols 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @Cliffor18175753]

It looks like no judges are willing to destroy their reputations by involving themselves in the UCP's illegitimate gerrymandering scheme.
https://t.co/5esPj4Jjau

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

The problem is, this Premier sheaths petards by legislating her government out of pickles. It’s going to take decades to return our Province to a democracy.

[David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA]

She’s in a political pickle hoisted on her own referendum petard.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@JMeddings It’s an additional shame the reporting shows first in the Globe and Mail. Where is our local media?

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

“I can confirm David Parker is not cooperating with the investigation and has refused to sign a statutory declaration confirming he will comply with my direction to cease and desist with respect to the list of electors,” Gordon McClure, Alberta’s chief electoral officer.” Classy.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@fakeezzie Sometimes it’s difficult to see the difference between the National Post and the Western Standard.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@mattsolberg Matt, while I admire your even-handed approach, I have a different view. When UCP caucus members and Cabinet ministers openly express support for separatism, I feel there are grounds to believe UCP complicity and sympathy for the Centurion Group is a distinct possibility.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

Random Hansard tidbit.
Even if you heard or saw Premier Smith encouraging Mr. Nenshi to go to the AI Academy (Regarding Electoral Boundaries) in the official Legislature recording, you won’t find it in Hansard, because it was considered sarcastic or insubstantial.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Hansard, the official record of what is said in the legislature confirms...

Danielle Smith said:

"we’re very, very hopeful that more women will take us up on paying for this option because early diagnosis means early treatment."

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Conservatives 🔵: you guys aren’t doing anything!

Liberals 🔴: here’s the twenty new trade and security deals we’ve signed.

🔵: just paper, where are the results?

🔴: the share of exports heading to non-U.S. markets has increased by about 40%.

🔵: means nothing if it doesn’t help people.

🔴: agree, and in the past year wages have grown faster than inflation every month.

🔵: not everyone is seeing that wage growth.

🔴: it's true - which is why we’ve introduced targeted support such as the groceries and essentials benefit while the growth spreads more broadly.

🔵: we can’t afford those programs.

🔴: they’re temporary, and the IMF just said Canada has the best fiscal position in the G7.

🔴: there's lots more work to do, no-one is spiking the ball, and not everything is going or will go perfectly - but we're going to keep building a strong Canada for all.

🔵: [slinks off to cherry-pick data and complain about the last PM]

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@trainofangels00 If msm insist on giving him a voice, I suggest using a laugh track.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

Refuting misinformation is tiresome.

[National Newswatch @natnewswatch]

Clip of Carney saying he would use emergency powers against Alberta separatists is doctored https://t.co/K8KyumKo02 #nationlnewswatch via @natnewswatch

[Jon Meddings @JMeddings]

So true.

We have a h/c crisis because we don't have enough MD's. It takes 5-10 years to train one.

Rather than trying to turn all of us into MD's and make diag companies rich we should invest in training/supporting more MD's.

[Diane 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @WeimaDiane]

@aasingleton17 This child needs to be removed from politics because they need to learn to self regulate, let's do that too. You can earn your way into inclusion, but you can earn your way out of it too..."

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@coreyhoganyyc @JasonOnTheDrums Reading the comments, it seems some folk don’t understand messages that don’t rhyme.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

Another first for Alberta. So proud.

[Dan Arnold @calgarygrit]

This isn't complicated.

The independent process that every province (including AB) always uses drew a map, after extensive consultation.

Smith is tossing that map out and will ask her own party's MLAs to draw a new one, without any public consultation.

It's gerrymandering.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@karenk_____ @JMeddings @Kapur_AK Not sure where the docs would come from — likely the public sector. So, robbing Peter, to pay Paul.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

Premier - if you insist on quoting Premier Lougheed — don’t just cherry pick phrases to support your position. It reminds me of people who quote partial passages of the Bible to support their transgressions.

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

Three more things Peter Lougheed said about using the notwithstanding clause:

1⃣ "A simple majority does not appear adequate."

2⃣ "In my mind, [pre-empting judicial review] is undemocratic."

3⃣ “I would hope that the notwithstanding clause would be used very, very rarely.”

Unfortunately, the Alberta government invoked the notwithstanding clause four times in the last year, each time pre-emptively, and each time with a simple majority, rather than the higher 60% threshold Lougheed preferred.

Nobody is suggesting removing the notwithstanding clause. There are complicated constitutional issues at play but it is inaccurate and misleading to imply Peter Lougheed would support its use in a way he explicitly said he opposed.

The courts are the appropriate place for these arguments.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

@JMeddings Once again, politicians take on the role of medical professionals. It’s a bit ‘Dr. Ozian’.

[Jennifer Diakiw 🇺🇦 @JenJaDi]

The UCP’s blatant disregard for legislative institutions and the voice of a majority of Albertans is incredulous.

[Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @DuaneBratt]

It is not the increase from 89 to 91 that is problematic. It is this part of the motion. Throwing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission (and all of their work) and instead creating a new committee of MLAs with a new advisory panel.