Two tidbits today that jumped out at me.
1) The province is trying to refuse and hide the results of the Alberta Next panel. After wasting over a million of our dollars on that idiotic effort the UCP has
missed the OIPC deadline to release the survey results.
2) Bill 4 has the provincial police force that no one asked for. The provincial police force is actually one of the things asked in the Alberta Next survey results and it seems rather telling that they are refusing to release the results of the survey at the same time they are trying to ram through this bill.
3) Braid is not my fav writer but he calls out the UCP for first using the NWC against teachers and then in the very next day threw "notwithstanding" into an order that basically lifts the limit on gifts that government officials can receive.
Quote:
It’s an order-in-council from cabinet, signed Oct. 29 by the lieutenant-governor.
The order starts by noting that no political staffer can accept gifts totalling more than $100 a year from the same individual, organization or corporation.
Very modest. But then it says “notwithstanding” that amount, there will be a list of exceptions, even enabling gifts (hockey tickets?) above $500, with no upper limit.
It takes spectacular gall to use the notwithstanding concept to strip rights from teachers one day, then invoke it the next day to deal with gifts for top government people.
The premier’s office says these rules are an improvement on the old ones, which has the same amounts, but fewer approvals required for large gifts. Over $500, the ethics commissioner must now approve.
Notwithstanding that, forgive me, the amounts are much higher than they were before the UCP. Theoretically, no cap exists.
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So at the same time they are attacking the working class and refusing to give them what they need to make their jobs more reasonable, they are allowing open bribery of government officials with no limit to the bribe they can receive? Got it.
Total Recall.