JKenneyFactCheck

Official fact-check account for Jason Kenney's #UniteAlberta campaign.

[Don Braid @DonBraid]

A defiant budget like nothing Alberta has seen in 25 years. Column. #ableg #yyc #yeg #abpoli #cdnpoli #yyccc #abgov
https://t.co/VlUV3WoUX7

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

People @DShepYEG likes to see appointed:

-Former ldr of NDP ❌
-Anti-pipeline activists ❌
-Anti-Alberta energy activists ❌

People @DShepYEG doesnt like to see appointed:

-Business Leaders ✅
-former Chair of YEG Chamber of Commerce ✅
-Qualified Albertans ✅

🤷‍♂️

#ableg

[David Shepherd @DShepYEG]

Everything old is new again.

Like the PC’s before them, “UCP mass-appoints friends to public boards.”

“The former NDP government set up an open hiring process for agency, board and commission appointments, but it’s unclear whether that has been scrapped altogether.” #ableg

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

Narrator: They did not, in fact, get the pipeline built.
#ableg #TMX #cdnpoli

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

This one too. #ableg #cdnpoli #TMX

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

Hope this helps @albertaNDP! #ableg

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

We'll just leave this here. #ableg #cdnpoli #TMX

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

Really hoped we wouldn’t have to do this anymore, after Albertans sent NDP a clear message on their failed fact-free fear & smear campaign.

These tweets were all deleted today after they got caught.

Alberta deserves better than an opposition that can’t get facts straight #ableg

[Unite Alberta @UniteAlberta]

Rachel Notley today once again tried to tell Albertans that the completion of Trans Mountain is in sight - despite zero metres of pipe being in the ground.

Let's revisit years of Notley's out-of-touch triumphalism on the pipeline. #ableg #abvote

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@arctic_gnome @srdarji @UCPCaucus His Parliamentary colleagues from all parties voted him “Most knowledgeable MP” in the Macleans annual survey of Parliamentarians https://t.co/VnMpIcB7ZH

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@arctic_gnome @srdarji @UCPCaucus @jkenney He completed his junior year at the University of San Francisco, a major American university https://t.co/wZ5DTgkEsi. The notion that USF is a “Bible School” from which he “flunked out” is an apocryphal invention of the left online.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

Did Orr say that marijuana legalization could lead to a communist revolution? No, absolutely not. Said that substance abuse in 19th Century China lead to some serious societal problems. Hard to dispute. #ableg #abpoli #UCP #cdnpoli #CPC

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

Doubt that Broadbent/Press Progress is linked to the NDP? NDP actually ran donations for Broadbent Institute at one point so they could issue bigger tax receipts https://t.co/VE3Dq6Y7Fl #ableg #abpoli #UCP #cdnpoli #CPC

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

Disappointing when some just take the spin from NDP-linked propaganda unit Press Progress (part of Broadbent Institute, as in fmr NDP leader Ed Broadbent). #ableg #aboli #UCP #cdnpoli #CPC

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@EmmaLGraney False. Police Officer Recruitment Fund was a 5-year grant from federal Budget 2008. Wasn't indefinite funding. How can you "cut" what was always known to expire.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

FYI: Police Officer Recruitment Fund, which Min. Schmidt references, was a 5-year grant from federal 2008 budget. Not indefinite funding commitment. Can't "cut" what was known to expire in 2008 #ableg #abpoli

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@ChrisLaBossiere Average donation is less than $100. That's "big establishment money?" Corporate & union donations now prohibited. Maximum annual cumulative provincial donation is $4000.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@HaikuVikingGal @Alberta_UCP He doesn't receive a pension, neither his housing nor truck are subsidized in any way.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@MarieFrRenaud @jkenney Here is a link to your bill creating that $73,000 total spending limit on byelections. https://t.co/6BiShCzdWi
Pro-tip: read and familiarize yourself with the bills that you vote for.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@MarieFrRenaud . @jkenney is in full compliance with the election laws that you voted for, including 42.2(2) of the Election Finance and Contribution Disclosure Act, which allows parties to spend $23,000 on byelections. $23,000 + $50,000 = $73,000, rounded down to $70,000 in fundraising appeal.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@carter_AB The author of the study quoted by @jkenney is a scientist with a PhD from UCLA. His report is published by an institute that is the top-rated think tank in Canada, and one of top 20 rated worldwide https://t.co/MsKHsucsTJ.

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

According to @carter_AB, it is Trumpian to quote an economic analysis done by a leading scholar for a leading think tank. https://t.co/ZP2VBXS07B

[Stephen Carter @carter_AB]

This is the next 18 months. Will Alberta media allow him to get away with this like American media allowed Trump? #ableg #ucp #abparty https://t.co/QOa4A0ITh0

[JKenneyFactCheck @KenneyFactCheck]

@ShawnaG_NDP Here is the section, and the link to the bill introduced by your NDP government which created it. https://t.co/5vlYp1LIW7… #embarrassing