https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1408440230542135300.html?s=09
So I thought this was worth posting here. A few days ago I posted the below as a reply over on /r/alberta. I mentioned the issue to my aging boomer parents (I say that with love - I just mean they are low-key, grey, suburban, traditional PC supporters), and both were super pissed off at the UPC for this crap.
Context: Last week at the legislature, a proposed amendment to Bill 64 (Kananaskis user fees) was suggested that would require disclosure details on how the Kananaskis user fees are spent/allocated. Seems pretty reasonable, right?
The amendment was killed by the UCP. Which, given that we are the /r/Calgary reddit, likely means your local MLA voted to kill a pretty reasonable proposal.
Now for the source: the actual blurb is at the top of Page 3 of the report below. Look for the bit that references Bill 64, and the "A1" amendment. This was an amendment that asked for a detailed report showing where the fee money was spent. The keyword is "Defeated" that is tacked on to the end.
https://docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files/docs/houserecords/vp/legislature_30/session_2/20210526_1200_01_vp.pdf
You can read the full conversation transcript here, to provide context.
https://docs.assembly.ab.ca/LADDAR_files/docs/hansards/han/legislature_30/session_2/20210526_0900_01_han.pdf
The real piss-off here is you can't tell who voted against this. Go to the video here, time-stamped around the 10:36 mark, where they take the vote. It's Aye's vs No's.
http://assemblyonline.assembly.ab.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20200317/-1/15329
I haven't been able to dig up who voted for what, but I'm pissed. I'm generally what they call a Red Tory/Small-C conservative, but have now gone Orange specifically due to this crap.
Email/call/write your MLA, and ask how they voted on this. Press the issue. A lot of my peers, who are the furthest thing from Orange, when they heard about this latest crap, are suddenly really, really, pissed off. It's no longer a Blue Vs Orange thing. This is an issue that resonates with all Calgarians, and needs to be addressed. Let your MLA know that their traditional, boring, always-vote-PC/UCP voter base is slowly slipping away.
Find your MLA here: https://streetkey.elections.ab.ca/
More important, tell your peers about this. It's a non-partisan issue. We all care about Kananaskis, and making sure that the fees paid stay in the park, and are spent on the park is good for everyone. It makes no sense that a government, any govern
... keep reading on reddit ➡
> On Tuesday 8th June MLAs at Stormont will be debating and voting on plans to update our outdated alcohol licensing laws. We need your help to convince them to make sure these new laws are up to scratch and deliver changes for pub-goers, beer drinkers, pubs, breweries and cider producers.
> Please fill out your details below to send a message to your local MLAs and ask them to attend the debate and vote in favour of changes to the law - including allowing local breweries and cider producers to sell their own products on their own premises.
> You will be taken to a new page, with the template email text to review and edit before sending to your five local MLAs.
I got this via the Boundary Brewery newsletter email. Took me 10 seconds in total.
Email draft is here:
> Dear <MLA>,
> I am writing as one of your constituents to ask you to vote in favour of proposed changes to the Licensing and Registration of Clubs Bill on Tuesday 8th June.
> As a pub-goer and beer drinker I want to see our licensing laws updated to deliver improved choice for consumers and to allow pubs to thrive.
> I also want to see a level playing field for our local breweries and cider producers so they can sell their own products and have a fair crack of the whip compared to the global brewers and multi-national pub companies.
> That’s why, as my MLA, I’d like you to support:
> - New Clause 8A, proposed by the Communities Committee, to allow local producers to run taprooms where they can sell their own produce to locals and tourists alike
> - Amendments 28 and/or 29, proposed by Kellie Armstrong and Rachel Woods, to allow those taprooms to have reasonable opening hours to meet consumer demand
> - Amendment 31, proposed by Kellie Armstrong, to allow producers to sell their own products for consumption on their premises on 208 occasions per year
> - Amendments 45 and 46, proposed by Matthew O’Toole, which would ensure a fair, independent review of our licensing system and the surrender principle which reduces consumer choice, stifles competition and innovation and which has seen the loss of community and rural pubs.
> Please support these modest amendments to the Licensing Bill so that we can build back better after COVID - with
... keep reading on reddit ➡It just boggles my mind that there haven't been more within the party speaking up. It doesn't matter to me anymore because I already know what I'll be looking for in the next election and I'm %99.9999 sure that nobody in the UCP will say anything remotely close to what I want to hear. I'm just really mad and frustrated.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/336633/Health-critic-Renee-Merrifield-presents-anti-mask-petition-in-the-Legislature-says-she-doesn-t-agree-with-it#336633
Edit: to be clear, I do not support this.
She's just gonna keep gaslighting. She's turning out to be a bit of a monster.
The Federal Conservatives will love her.
I don’t want to drive traffic to the site by posting a link, but essentially UCP member(s) continue to leak talk within the caucus to Derek Flindebrandt’s publication.
This time, it’s Micheala Glasgo telling Kenney the women MLAs are not getting seats on boards despite their qualifications.
I’ve spent far too much time trying to get into the heads of the women who voted for this party never mind those who decided to run for it. I think they, like teachers, voted for other priorities like eliminating the carbon tax without looking at the policies that could affect them. Fair enough. But of all we know of this party — from the mandated stunt during the bubble zone vote, to closing a rural maternity clinic that aided half of the births in the area, to eliminating two of the three child care support programs, to listing tubal ligations as a having “little clinical value” to the war on female-dominated fields like education and health care — what, at the end of the day makes them think women would have a voice in their party at all?
