Alberta’s Auditor-General has completed six performance audits of the United Conservative Party Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as you may already have seen on social media, Doug Wylie won’t be allowed to tell anyone about them. Alberta Auditor General Doug Wylie (Photo: Office of the Auditor General). That
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Alberta Politics: NDP to ask UCP cabinet to release risk analysis and full documentation of Premier Jason Kenney’s $7.5-billion Keystone XL deal
Opposition NDP members plan to make an emergency motion on Tuesday at a meeting of the Legislature’s Public Accounts Committee calling for full-disclosure of Premier Jason Kenney’s $7.5-billion Keystone XL Pipeline deal last March. Technically, the motion will urge the United Conservative Party Cabinet to waive its privilege and release
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Politicians shirk their duty… again #nlpoli
If the Auditor General starts the investigation of wetlands capping as requested by the Public Accounts Committee, then she will be acting illegally. The Auditor General has no authority to conduct a review requested by the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Assembly under any provincial statute, regulation, or
Continue readingdaveberta.ca – Alberta Politics: It’s all about Derek… Speculation mounts that ousted UCP MLA will run as an Independent in 2019
He’s “wasting his time” if he thinks he can run for a United Conservative Party nomination, says party leader Jason Kenney, but that isn’t stopping Strathmore-Brooks MLA Derek Fildebrandt from being a thorn in his former party’s side. Once considered a rising star in Alberta’s conservative movement, the spectacular implosion of
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: PC Party: Oh Albertans, give us one more chance (we want you back)
TweetIn 1971, The Jackson 5 were topping the billboard charts and Peter Lougheed‘s Progressive Conservatives were just starting what has become an uninterrupted 43-year reign as Alberta’s governing party. Recent messaging from the PC Party have certainly drawn inspiration from the band’s famous song – I Want You Back – as the PC Party
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Supporters of the current governing party like to talk about how theirs is the most open, accountable and transparent government of all time. Problem for them is that they cannot prove it. Those of us who don’t believe that claim have a distinct advantage: we can offer solid evidence about
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