@PierrePoilievre What hidden grocery taxes? Name them. Specifically which ones? What legislation enables them? Put forth a bill to amend or end them.
Or quit lying and acknowledge that your corporate donor buddies at Loblaws are making record profits… money they keep after expenses like taxes.
@DrewCouver56@TaraArmstrongBC Is that the one where truckers that didn’t want to follow the US requirement of vaccination to pass through the border occupied Ottawa while *real* truckers actually continued to do their damn jobs?
Holy shit — that quote is authoritarianism with a smile.
Here’s exactly what Danielle Smith just said, translated into plain English:
🔥 She is claiming:
•Judges aren’t elected, so they don’t have legitimacy.
•Courts “overstep” when they disagree with her.
•The notwithstanding clause is her tool to override “incorrect” court decisions.
•SHE gets to decide what is “correct,” not constitutional law.
•Courts should “know their place.”
•Elected governments (aka her government) get the final say.
•And she “hopes” she won’t have to override rights too often.
This is straight-up anti-constitutional garbage and a fundamental misunderstanding of how Canada works.
https://t.co/1UrUWshduJ
#ableg
@MikeBarrettON Horseshit. A blind trust is the standard for such cases. If this was pre-Trump 2016 you might get away with such an assertion, but blind trusts are much better understood now.
@BoswellDoug He sold assets, clawed back funding for Veteran’s Affairs, and cooked the books with “savings” based on clawed back sick leave from the public service that a) rarely costs extra due to backfilling being limited; and b) that ended up not being reclaimed.
There was no surplus.
@integritymonkey@jmbprime They can speak on what they learn, so long as it isn’t classified info.
The thing he doesn’t like is that they aren’t allowed to say anything untruthful about issues that they know better about due to classified info.
So it would prevent him from lying about issues for gain.
@jasminlaine So you’re just completely ignoring the fact that CPC voters that are turned off by him and want a better option exist?
It may be easier to think those critical of PP are left wing voters only. But that sort of thinking only benefits left wing voters.
Keep alienating your own.
@VedderFreddy@Boogie_Rambler@BertaMemes “Transfer payments” is a handy keyword that immediately translates to “I have no fucking idea what I am talking about, but will ignorantly and confidently state my position without any doubt.”
@BertaMemes Companies need to be putting forth projects to be accepted. What company is going to invest hundreds of millions or even billions into a province whose leader is stoking uncertainty by flirting with separation?
More than 900 Albertans will lose their jobs, and Alberta’s Premier is simply “disappointed” with thoughts and prayers for good severance packages?
Premier, that’s 900 families impacted once these workers receive the pink slip. Alberta has one of the worst unemployment rates in the country. How are the 900 Albertans going to find new jobs? Your UCP government chased away $33 billion dollars of investments in 118 renewables projects that would have brought 24,000 jobs. It then continued with an unfathomable witch hunt on the renewables projects that practically stopped the growth of new jobs in that sector over the last two years. What’s the plan here, Premier?
This Imperial layoff is not the exception; it is an increasing pattern. There are more mergers and consolidations in the oil sands sector, and the 2020 merger of Husky and Cenovus was a prime example that resulted in the loss of 2150 office jobs. In 2023, Suncor also cut ~1500 jobs in Alberta, citing the need for better financial performance and more efficiency. Imperial’s own press release says: “Leverages technology and global capability centres to deliver increased value” with “Expected annual expense savings of $150 million.”
The UCP government has failed to act and prepare for the reality that is upon us. The sector is becoming highly automated and more efficient with the implementation of technology, which means less jobs available for Albertans.
The question is, what is this government going to do right now to support the 900 Albertans losing their jobs? What’s the government’s plan to prepare and re-orient this highly skilled labour force for the future?
And most importantly, how is the Premier caught off guard in this way? And will the Premier shut down the separation nonsense to bring back investor certainty in our province?
Albertans deserve an actual plan for Alberta’s economy #ableg