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failing to plan is planning to fail

[AJ Punk @SilentSnow89]

@AdrianaLaGrange Hey, while you're apologizing for things your government did, maybe you or one of your three fellow health ministers can apologize for ruining healthcare as a whole?

Preferably with your resignation in hand?

[Andrew Knack @AndrewKnack]

🧵As the Mayors of Alberta’s largest cities, we are standing up against the referendum for a referendum and encouraging Albertans to vote this October.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Hot take: Scrap Question Period.

I know. Hear me out.

Every day, the people we elected to run a G7 nation spend 45 minutes screaming rehearsed one-liners at each other while backbenchers bang their desks like it’s a hockey game.

No answers get given. No policy gets made. No problem gets solved.

The minister reads a non-answer from a cue card. The opposition screams. Repeat 35 times. Camera cuts to someone rolling their eyes. Done.

And we wonder why voter turnout keeps dropping.

Foreign observers watching Question Period for the first time genuinely cannot believe this is how a serious democracy operates. It looks like a school cafeteria fight.

The original purpose was accountability. Ministers answering directly to elected representatives. A check on executive power. Legitimate and necessary.

What it became is theater. Purely for clips. Every question is written to go viral, and every answer is written to avoid saying anything. The actual governance happens somewhere else entirely, behind closed doors, away from cameras.

Countries like Germany, Sweden, and New Zealand have structured interpellation systems where written questions require written answers on the record. Documented. Searchable. Accountable.

You know what that produces? Actual information. Actual accountability. A paper trail.

Canada deserves better than a daily episode of Real Housewives with a peace tower in the background.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

In response to Wab Kinew's suggestion that Smith delay the separatist referendum...

Smith responded by saying that premiers shouldn't tell other premiers what to do.

And then promptly said what she believed other premiers should be doing.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[AJ Punk @SilentSnow89]

Danielle Smith needs to resign as Premier of Alberta. She is the single most corrupt, controversial, destructive person to ever occupy the office of Premier in our great province.

Think I'm exaggerating?

- Artur Pawlowski ethics breach: in March 2023, Danielle Smith improperly pressured the Justice Minister to drop all charges against the pastor with regards to the Coutts blockade
- CorruptCare: Smith tried to restructure AHS by awarding massive publicly funded contracts to private corporations, including MHCare. The former CEO of AHS, Athana Mentzelopoulos claims to have been wrongfully fired because she was investigating allegations of wrongdoing.
- Sweeping Attacks on Trans Youth: Bills 26, 27, and 29 ban transgender surgeries and hormonal therapies for youths under 16, force parental consent for school pronoun changes, and ban trans women from competing in female sports leagues. Danielle Smith used the Notwithstanding Clause, a constitutional clause designed to avoid national unity crises during times of emergency, to silence all debate and court challenges on these unconstitutional bills.
- Third Party Book Bans: Smith mandated that all third-party learning materials involving sex ed, orientation, or gender identity require Ministry of Education pre-approval.
- Her list of controversial comments and public acts includes:
- Claims that the unvaxxed were "the most discriminated against group of people in history";
- Comparing those who followed COVID policies were "followers of Hitler";
- gave credence to the chemtrail conspiracists;
- used victims of severe crimes as props for her own political claims.
- She has passed legislation which allows the government of Alberta to simply ignore laws she deems "harmful to Alberta's interests."
- She has tried to pull Alberta out of the CPP, with no plan to replace it aside from an independent APP.
- She has dismantled AHS in an effort to privatize Alberta's universal healthcare system.
- She wasted $70 million dollars on Turkish pain medication, most of which either was deemed unsafe for public consumption or simply never arrived.
- She has been seen many times at public events in the US hosted by MAGA or MAGA-aligned far-right activists and figures, many of whom, including Trump, have advocated for annexing Canada into the US by force.

These are just the most extreme examples of Danielle Smith's unfitness to occupy the office of the Premier of Alberta. She has done much damage to the reputation and the future of our province and our people. She will go down in history as the most corrupt, most destructive premier we have ever endured.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

He has a point. Danielle Smith and the separatists think they’re great bargainers. But, the truth is they’re turning potential investors off our province.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Okay, Rob. If you think “giving the people a say” is such a great idea, why don’t you add questions on CPP, data centres, a $20 minimum wage, the use of the Notwithstanding Clause, a wealth tax, higher corporate taxes, guardrails on disinformation etc. I dare you. #Hypocrite

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wab Kinew: "I just love Canada and I don't want to see talk about breaking this country up. And just the nature of how I want to practice politics is to speak up about what I think is the right thing to do."

[Melanie Behm, she/her @lovelylibrary]

So well said Minister, thank you, I’m currently not @ the heartbroken stage, I’m @ the angry stage, that @ABDanielleSmith has put us here. It’s shameful, it’s irresponsible, it’s selfish. Thank you @EleanorO_MP for standing up for Canadians

[Ash @Hello_1898]

@JeromyYYC @ABDanielleSmith
@Alberta_UCP
@albertaNDP @ctvedmonton @CTVNews @MarieFrRenaud @MarkJCarney @nenshi @neudorf_ab @GlobalEdmonton @globalnews @edmontonjournal @JasonNixonAB @MedicineHatNews @linnsieclark @JeromyYYC @WabKinew @CHATNewsToday @AB_AgainstUCP #SaveAISH #StopADAP

[Leah 🇨🇦 @EdmABCanada]

@JeromyYYC Imagine stealing 200.00 from every disabled Albertan because they can. They are the only government in Canada stealing the Canadian Disability Benefit. Thats says all we need to know about the corrupt and traitorous UCP.

[Melanie 🇨🇦 @Mellyfax]

🙂

[Mike Angelle ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ @trainofangels00]

“Now is the time to work together....why don’t we hold off on this referendum talk for a year or two, so we can get these pipelines under construction?....because at the end of the day, we want Canada to succeed.”

Wab Kinew -
Premier of Manitoba

#canpoli
#mbpoli
#abpoli

[True North Eager Beaver Media (he/him/Mr Beaver) @TrueEager]

MUST-SEE

The ultimate in sociopathic, political arsonist, narcissism...

Premier Smith has the unmitigated gall to Whitesplain #DutyToConsult and Premier Kinew teaches journalists how to shut down unrepentant gaslighters who brazenly and shamelessly insult your intelligence

[VisuallyBetter @Isuckatpicking]

No I don't need to recognize the Alberta separatists grievances against Ottawa.

There are more people in Alberta with legitimate grievances against the Alberta UCP than there are separatists in this province.

Clean up your own house first.

[Rated_Robynne @RatedR4Robynne]

Wab Kinew calling out Danielle Smith’s lies

[AJ Punk @SilentSnow89]

It's time for @ABDanielleSmith to resign.

Her corruption, her disastrous policies, and her courting of separatists has done severe damage to our province.

#ableg #abpoli

[G Godwin @gill_godwin]

At the Western Provinces presser, @ABDanielleSmith said BC ports are Canadian ports. If that's true, wouldn't AB oil be Canadian oil.
#cdnpoli

[Paul Chandler @PaulCha94025901]

#ableg #abpoli