Karen B 🇨🇦🍁

Proud Canadian 🇨🇦. Happily Retired.

[Parksy @PfParks]

UCP "believe" in a "free market" for HC but not Oil!

Soon to be announced: BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars spent de-risking a pipeline for oil corporations making record profits, while actively cutting funding for ABs with severe disabilities living below the poverty line.

[Sharon McLean @sheshem]

The UCP is handing nearly $100 million of Alberta taxpayers’ money to foreign multinational contractors — Australian and British-owned companies — to run our new disability employment system (ADAP).
Instead of supporting Alberta-based businesses and organizations that actually understand our communities and employ local people, they’re outsourcing to overseas for-profit firms.
This money should have stayed in Alberta. It should have gone to homegrown companies and non-profits that keep dollars circulating in our province and deliver services designed for Albertans.
Prioritizing foreign contractors over local talent isn’t supporting vulnerable people or building a stronger Alberta economy.
#AlbertaFirst #AISH

[Karen B 🇨🇦🍁 @karecana]

@MargTokar More attention than the horror disabled Albertans who depend on AISH are being subject to by this horribly mean UCP government.

[Luthen @LuthenReilly]

@ABDanielleSmith Citizenship status and a healthcare number on your driver's licence.

Meanwhile, Albertans can't find family doctors, ambulances are delayed, and ER patients are waiting 30+ hours for a bed.

Remind me again how this fixes healthcare?

https://t.co/n3upD3Gkuu

[Marie Renaud 🇨🇦 @MarieFrRenaud]

Hey @ABDanielleSmith your government is about to needlessly harm tens of thousands of severely disabled people by dismantling AISH.

All major cities are urging you to stop. Albertans from all over are urging you to stop.

Please stop before people are hurt.

#alberta #AISH

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

"As Project 2025 has done in the US, the Free Alberta Strategy has begun to fundamentally alter Alberta politics and society. It’s a reckless and anti-democratic plan that seems hell-bent on destroying Canada."

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli https://t.co/wBZcRHtsRr

[Sharif Haji @SharifHajiMLA]

Premier Smith presides over the largest government in Alberta's history.

She faces more corruption investigations than any premier before her.

She oversees the worst performance on health care & education.

Now, she is pushing divisive referendums she did not campaigned on.

[Ian McKnight 🇨🇦 @Wetcoastlad]

@MargTokar @ABDanielleSmith So wait, she had no mandate to replace RCMP with Provincial Police, no mandate to create a Alberta Provincial Pension Scheme, no mandate to privatize healthcare, using the not withstanding clause to get her own way. But she’ll piss away 25 million more taxpayers dollars on this.

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

Congrats Danielle Smith!!

In 72 hours: Reuters. AP. Washington Post. BBC. Bloomberg. CNBC.

All covering Smith's referendum chaos

Global investors
Energy markets
Foreign gov’ts

All reading about Alberta voting on separation!

This is what Smith calls “Strong and Free”

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

I'm pleased to join this group of Albertans in launching Lead not Leave. The status quo is not the sole alternative to secession and even the risk of secession will have significant consequences for our province and our country. We must firmly say that Canada includes Alberta.

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

"It is often advanced that vote for this and you will strengthen our hand in future negotiations, and that's a very dangerous bluff."

Mark Carney likens Alberta's sovereignty referendum to Brexit, saying voters run the risk of being left with a bad hand they didn't mean to vote for.

[Irfan Sabir @MLAIrfanSabir]

“Calgary’s mayor says having a vote on whether to initiate a referendum on Alberta separation is a “ridiculous lack of provincial leadership.”
#AbLeg https://t.co/HXpFJrilsp

[Karen B 🇨🇦🍁 @karecana]

Foreign interference.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Danielle Smith - There can be no foreign interference!

Alberta Prosperity Project - That's cute. We're doing it anyways.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

"Did (Albertans) vote for this last provincial election? No, they didn't, it wasn't on the ballot paper, it wasn't in the mandates or platforms of the governing party..."

PM Mark Carney says a separatist question on a question isn't helpful to the economy, that it wasn't part of the UCP's election platform- joking that Premier Smith doesn't always take his advice.

[LA🇨🇦 @BornFree_isms]

@ctvqp @fie0014 Ask Smith about a shady business man who’s received over 900million— for defective junk. Yet his family members were given jobs in https://t.co/bVjNzjdSxg.

Ask Smith about Physicians pleading for action who have been ignored—Albertan’s are dying.

#RESIGNSMITH

[Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @LukaszukAB]

“This process will further undermine regulatory certainty and jeopardize future economic advancement,” Calgary Chamber of Commerce CEO Deborah Yedlin said. “People, businesses, capital and opportunity will leave our province — and never come back.” https://t.co/eOxqYmG0hG

[𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙖 𝙍𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙪𝙨𝙩🇨🇦 @ThisIsMeCassie]

Wow, and you can hear the pain in their voice. This is not OK. She is a traitor. Marlena needs to resign.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

The truth about the 700,000 number: the 450,000 people who signed the Forever Canadian petition EXPLICITLY wanted to avoid a divisive and destructive referendum. Smith in deliberately misrepresenting their intentions. It’s pure gaslighting.

[Biological Clock Candidate For PM🇨🇦 @JCElliott13]

@Bratt_world https://t.co/fOy6QHAej2

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#ableg

The Alberta referendum will cost $26M…

That’s 13-17 BRAND NEW hospital CT scanners

Smith does NOT know what problem the referendum solves…

She does know a man died waiting 6 hours in a #YEG ER last week?

Priorities!