This morning at the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices...UCP majority introduces a motion starting a search committee for a new auditor general.
NDP MLA David Sheppard says Doug Wylie wants to stay on two more years. Wylie is reviewing the allegations of inappropriate health contracting.
UCP MLA Scott Cyr says Wylie could always reapply for his job. The five UCP MLAs on the committee pass the motion: Cyr, Lovely, De Jong, Dyck, Petrovic.
The four NDP MLAs on the committee vote it down: Sheppard, Miyashiro, Wright and Chapman.
FYI his term is currently set until April of 2026
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This morning at the Standing Committee on Legislative Offices...UCP majority introduces a motion starting a search committee for a new auditor general.
NDP MLA David Sheppard says Doug Wylie wants to stay on two more years. Wylie is reviewing the allegations of inappropriate health contracting.
UCP MLA Scott Cyr says Wylie could always reapply for his job. The five UCP MLAs on the committee pass the motion: Cyr, Lovely, De Jong, Dyck, Petrovic.
The four NDP MLAs on the committee vote it down: Sheppard, Miyashiro, Wright and Chapman.
FYI his term is currently set until April of 2026
Is this something to be concerned about or just a regular course of business for the government? It's great that Wylie would like an additional two years but since 1986 the AG has regularly served an 8 year term and the AG Act states that the term shall not exceed 8 years.
I think it's only fair the Premier, who is responsible for all of this, should personally have to sit at the back of her train car and count and validate every signature herself. A camera can monitor her, and the citizens can make sure she isn't cheating.
This was her idea, her expense, and her failure that got us here. Let her be the one who has to suffer. Taking tax dollars form the vulnerable(which is exactly where they'll find it) to pay for this is not acceptable.
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I think it's only fair the Premier, who is responsible for all of this, should personally have to sit at the back of her train car and count and validate every signature herself. A camera can monitor her, and the citizens can make sure she isn't cheating.
This was her idea, her expense, and her failure that got us here. Let her be the one who has to suffer. Taking tax dollars form the vulnerable(which is exactly where they'll find it) to pay for this is not acceptable.
Since I live in High River I'd be happy to supervise as she counts the votes. As long as i could have one of them long wooden pointers with a rubber tip so I can rap her hands when she tries to skip over some votes.
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Par for the course. Fascists aren't going to give up power to democratic institutions, even ones of their own making.
I hope Elections Alberta finds a way to punish the UCP for this.
For example, I hope they prioritize the recall petitions over the FC petition. As much as we want the FC petition to move ahead, it is also effective in blocking the separatist question if it just sits with Election Alberta for a few years to slowly count the signatures.
The recall petitions should be counted with urgency so that Elections Alberta can get away from this nonsense.
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Is this something to be concerned about or just a regular course of business for the government? It's great that Wylie would like an additional two years but since 1986 the AG has regularly served an 8 year term and the AG Act states that the term shall not exceed 8 years.
Yes the initial appointment may not exceed 8 years, but they are eligible for reappointment.
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(2) Subject to section 5, the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall
appoint the Auditor General, on the recommendation of the
Assembly, for a term not exceeding 8 years.
(3) An Auditor General is eligible for reappointment under
subsection (2).
So it may not be unreasonable to form the committee to recommend the next appointment, it might also be reasonable to simply recommend reappointment given the ongoing scandals. But it will probably be hard to ever find an opportune break amidst the many many scandals that calgarygeologist is somehow not completely embarrassed about. (seriously, how are you not so ashamed of your party?)
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I hope Elections Alberta finds a way to punish the UCP for this.
For example, I hope they prioritize the recall petitions over the FC petition. As much as we want the FC petition to move ahead, it is also effective in blocking the separatist question if it just sits with Election Alberta for a few years to slowly count the signatures.
The recall petitions should be counted with urgency so that Elections Alberta can get away from this nonsense.
I want the FC matter is settled quickly. It’s a pall hanging over the province and is harming our reputation and business viability.
Health care workers vote 98% in favour of strike - I'm guessing it wouldn't have been that high if the UCP hadn't pretty much declared war on unions with the teacher strike.
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Calgary’s Criminal Lawyers Defence Association (CDLA), along their colleagues at the Criminal Trial Lawyers Association, Southern Alberta Defence Lawyers’ Association, and Red Deer Criminal Defence Lawyers Association sent an evening statement condemning the province’s use of the notwithstanding clause in Bill 2 on Nov. 4.
“The Alberta government has chosen not only to exempt this legislation from constitutional labour protections, but also from an entirely unjustified, seemingly unrelated, and broad range of other fundamental freedoms and protections guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms,” said the joint statement.
Among those rights identified by the lawyers as having been preempted by the government included the right to freedom of expression, the right to counsel, the right to equal protection and benefit of the law, the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, and the the fundamental right to life, liberty, and security of the person.
The joint statement also decried the government exempting teachers from the fundamental rights enshrined in the Alberta Human Rights Act and Alberta Bill of Rights.
“As organizations of criminal defence lawyers, whose role is to protect and preserve the rights and freedoms we all cherish and rely on, we are profoundly concerned by the extraordinary use of the notwithstanding clause by the government,” said the statement.
“When governments seek to normalize the removal of robust Charter protections, it imperils all rights, including those that shield citizens from arbitrary or unjust state action within the criminal justice system.”
Alberta teachers no longer feel free to exercise fundamental rights like freedom of expression to challenge the government.
“They’ve got no rights right now. I think many are even afraid to sort of speak out in their private lives, or to attend protests or speak with their MLA anything that looks like job related action,” she said.
A teacher who was caught shoplifting for example would have the full protection of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but a teacher who protested the government would have none under Bill 2.
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I want the FC matter is settled quickly. It’s a pall hanging over the province and is harming our reputation and business viability.
I really do not disagree with you.... I just think that if we recall the UCP out of government then so many issues, including separation, gets nailed into a coffin.
And there are SO MANY ISSUES!!!!!!! It is exhausting how much they have flooded the field with terrible things.
UCP brought back corporate donations to parties, then took in $471K in three months
Injury lawyers help extend United Conservatives' fundraising edge over NDP
UCP brought back corporate donations to parties, then took in $471K in three months
Injury lawyers help extend United Conservatives' fundraising edge over NDP
“Unfortunately, cash for access was the only way for lawyers to engage directly with government on this issue and advocate on behalf of injured Albertans,” lawyer Karamveer Lalh told CBC News in a text message. His professional corporation gave the UCP $3,750.
“If we felt we were being meaningfully consulted with, you wouldn’t see members of our bar giving donations to a party trying to put the hundreds of Albertans we employ out of a job.”
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UCP brought back corporate donations to parties, then took in $471K in three months
Injury lawyers help extend United Conservatives' fundraising edge over NDP
“Unfortunately, cash for access was the only way for lawyers to engage directly with government on this issue and advocate on behalf of injured Albertans,” lawyer Karamveer Lalh told CBC News in a text message. His professional corporation gave the UCP $3,750.
“If we felt we were being meaningfully consulted with, you wouldn’t see members of our bar giving donations to a party trying to put the hundreds of Albertans we employ out of a job.”
Don’t worry everyone, Bill 32 is still in effect so there’s still sufficient red tape and hoops that will help prevent unions from trying to support candidates who support paying workers enough so that tax payers don’t have to subsidize them while the billion dollar corporations they work for don’t look to influence politics at all.
Where are the Freedom Convoy when you actually need them?
That is American Freedom because they were an American psyop
Real freedom is the ability to go to rexall and ask for a ####ing vaccine to a contagious and often deadly virus and not have to weigh the cost against groceries
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It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you
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