I heard @PeterGuthrie99 delivered a powerful speech in the legislature last night. Conservative voters who stand by the principals by which the UCP was founded, like protecting Charter rights, should be voting for his new party in the next election. #abpoli#airdrie#cochrane
The same people to purposely stopped recording class sizes, deleted all past class size records, and ignored any attempt to manage class sizes…..
Now wants to pay millions to friends and family to create a task force to magically come up with their pre-conceived conclusions
456,365 signatures!
This is a historic mobilization of Albertans by @LukaszukAB and his team with #ForeverCanadian!
This is more than a full quarter of votes cast in the last provincial election!
More than needed by HALF!!!
#abpoli#ableg#cdnpoli
Today, I submitted 456,365 Albertans’ signatures to Elections Alberta, petitioning the Premier to do the right thing, avoid a divisive and economically harmful referendum, and allow MLAs to vote and reaffirm that Alberta’s future is in Canada.🇨🇦
Alberta is #ForeverCanadian
For the NW #yyc people!
from 1-3 pm tomorrow!
2807 10 St NW (confederation park parking lot off 10 st NW)
Come sign the petition to stop private school funding!
Must be a Canadian citizen, over 18 and a resident of Alberta.
#ableg#abed#abpoli
The Alberta NDP built 169 new schools from 2015-19. They also completed 75 replacements and modernizations of existing schools.
From 2019 (UCP elected) to today they have built 28 new schools over 6 years.
The UCP doesn't believe in public education.
How are they going to find 3000 people to hire who don’t mind being treated like trash by their employers?
Do you need a job and hate having rights? Alberta!
First, the UCP didn’t listen to teachers.
Then, the UCP ignored their pleas.
Now, the UCP is silencing them.
How evil do you have to be to take away someone’s rights because they dared advocate for children?
Wake up AB. Stand with teachers. #FireTheUCP#abed#Ableg
A shameful first for Alberta.
The UCP is using the Notwithstanding Clause to force teachers back to work and impose a contract 90% rejected.
This is an attack on workers' rights and a distraction from their failure to fund our classrooms.
We condemn this abuse of power.
The notwithstanding clause should never be used to subvert democracy and the rule of law.
This is why clear guardrails and guidelines must be instituted.
It's general strike time. An assault of this scale on the labour rights of teachers in Alberta is a threat to the labour rights of every worker in the country.
So the ‘education minister’ says the strike has caused irreparable harm to students (he researched it!) but also that large classes make no difference at all. 🤡 Missing school is going to be an ‘economic liability’ to the ‘future of Alberta’. But not classroom conditions. 🤡
Listening to @pancholi_rakhi speaking in the #ableg right now about Bill 2. I so appreciate everything she is saying. Every word. This is the truth and the reality about all this teacher strike situation.
@BarbLarochelle@pancholi_rakhi I appreciated the apology for giving teachers zero salary increases. It doesn't fix things, but at least she's aware of the issue.
“This isn’t a left-right issue. It’s a constitutional one.
UCP chose to use time allocation & the notwithstanding clause not because it had no other legal path, but because it wanted to set a precedent:
When opposition & rights are inconvenient, it will override them.” #ableg
#ableg#abpoli
Alberta is on the edge of a watershed moment
Hundreds of thousands of workers are about to decide: stand and fight for their rights…or let corruption and cruelty win
I know where I stand
I’m fighting
Because this is worth EVERYTHING