@cselley I get it … but us Albertans have little impact on the entitled east
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Steve Bottoms
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Steve Bottoms
@SteveBottoms
Retired. Always worked in the private sector. Owned a small business. No pension. Lived beneath my means, saved for the future.
Calgary, Alberta Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@SteveBottoms You need to take it up with the Boomers, I'm afraid. I'm just speaking the truth.
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It's an amusingly basic dynamic. Boomers love mail. But Boomers love Carney. Carney wins.
The Globe and Mail@globeandmail
These are the first postal codes Canada Post is converting to community mailboxes theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
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@cselley Stop it with this Boomers love Carney stuff. Unless you’re referring to Ontario Boomers. They love a free lunch.
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Because they don't ACTUALLY care about mail. They just despise change.
If someone they trust offers change, they'll go along.
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Steve Bottoms retweetledi
Canada added ~1 million jobs in a decade
GOVERNMENT JOBS
Government jobs grew 60% faster than private sector jobs
27,000 federal employees now make $150,000+ per year
Public sector productivity declined 0.3% per year during the same period
Costing Canada an estimated $32 BILLION in lost GDP
The economist behind the study said it plainly:
“You cannot have an economy with decent standards of living where the majority of what’s going on is government growth.”
Canadians just re-elected the party that built this.
And they manufactured a majority to keep going.
I see where this is headed.
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Steve Bottoms retweetledi
Do YOU feel you're getting good service from the federal government? 🫵
If you're not so sure, you're not alone. In fact, only 16% of people say yes.
Our federal civil service is growing, but the results aren't. We can make efficiency a priority in Canada's civil service. 🇨🇦
Build Canada@build_canada
Our federal public civil service headcount has grown 31% in the last decade. Per capita, that's more than anywhere in the (core) G7. Despite this, only 16% of Canadians say they receive good value from government services. We can reform 🇨🇦's federal public service. 👇
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@nationalpost Of course they’ll stack the deck. It’s right out of Donald Trump’s playbook
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Conservatives call on Carney not to 'stack the deck' by using majority to shut opposition out of committees nationalpost.com/news/canada/co…
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In any normal universe, everyone involved in this, including @gregorrobertson, would be fired.
Blacklock's Reporter@mindingottawa
Project managers originally planned to find 30 homeless gay veterans in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Halifax to take photos with free cameras. Records show the $1.2 million @HICC_ca project started late and had difficulty finding gay homeless veterans.
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@DianaBatten_ Hmmm … yet when the public sector hold the private sector hostage for deficit causing wage increase and entitlements you’re cool with easing taxes?!? 🤨
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If they wanted to, they would.
The UCP could provide Albertans relief TODAY by dropping the provincial gas tax.
But they won't.
If only the UCP remembered who they work for....
#yycAcadia #ableg #communities
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Steve Bottoms retweetledi
Decimus Oil (TSXV: WCSB) — higher-intensity completions unlocking 4M+ barrels OOIP per section in the Mannville Basal Quartz. Faster payouts, higher IP rates, superior capital efficiency on 100% controlled lands.
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Almost nobody outside of Quebec speaks French. We don't want these costly, burdensome regulations in the rest of Canada @MarcMillerVM.
Marc Miller ᐅᑭᒫᐃᐧᐅᓃᐸᐄᐧᐤᐃᔨᐣ Mikotsikaa@MarcMillerVM
I tabled today the draft regulations that will guarantee workers and consumers the right to work and receive services in French, while clarifying the responsibilities of federally regulated private businesses. We are taking action to protect French across the country.
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This play starts … and ends in tragedy
open.substack.com/pub/michellere…
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@CanadianCoffey Which was a conservative motion to begin with … for the record
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For The Record:
The federal government is the only government in Canada that has suspended fuel taxes.
As of this moment ZERO premiers have suspended fuel taxes.
Including all 6 conservative premiers.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
We’re cutting your costs, so you can keep more of your hard-earned paycheque.
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@TristinHopper The disease you are referring to is “entitlement”. Even within my fiscally conservative boomer friends - a condition which leads to deflection and denial. We protested far away injustices in the 60’s then became content to make our way, willfully blind to future effect.
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Canada's last decades has been a cascade of people overlooking monstrous things because they were guilted into shutting up. I don't see much difference in older people, even conservative ones, saying we shouldn't notice we live in a system that overwhelmingly favours the aged at the expense of the young.
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Steve Bottoms retweetledi
“Things have never been better in Canada”
-Mark Carney
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@lamphieryeg The “protect my entitlement” crowd is built upon this foundation.
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Danielle Smith@ABDanielleSmith
Yesterday, the White House approved the advancement of multiple pipeline projects carrying Alberta oil to the United States. Expanding pipeline capacity to the U.S. is something I’ve been advocating from this U.S. Administration since their last election. It has paid off! This is great news for Alberta and Canada. It has the potential to unlock hundreds of billions in energy investment for our province and country. We hope the federal government moves this fast when it comes to our pipeline project submission in June. Let’s get these pipelines built! Read the full U.S. decision here: whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
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What's truly mind-boggling about all the debt is how it was wasted. Nothing was built. Nothing was improved. One of the greatest outlays of cash in the history of our species was squandered on nothing.
Tristin Hopper@TristinHopper
When I was 19, I though that if Canada just decided to blow out the budget with wartime deficits for a few years, we could pepper the landscape with infrastructure and be set for decades. We *did* blow out the deficit, and literally everything is worse everywhere forever.
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@KenBoessenkool @peteremcc This gets too much airtime. There’s bigger shit to be really concerned about.
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@peteremcc The should start their own party and face the embarrassment and ignominy of all previous separatist parties in the province.
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How many of them signed the petition to have a pro-separation referendum in Alberta?
How many of them would vote “yes” in such a referendum?
In my view, either action should disqualify one for membership in a truly United Conservative Party of Alberta.
Danielle Smith@ABDanielleSmith
These are the incredible folks doing the hard work behind the scenes for conservatism. Our UCP constituency presidents are the ones organizing events, raising funds, finding great candidates, and keeping everything running smoothly. I am very grateful for everything they do to keep Alberta moving forward and yes, keeping it a beautiful blue.
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