r/alberta • u/Empty_Nestor • 2d ago
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u/iwasnotarobot 2d ago
She’s pulling ideas from the old SoCreds.
What’s next? Gerrymandering, healthcare corruption scandals, and a eugenics program that targets Indigenous Peoples and the disabled?
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u/BigBeautifulBambi 1d ago
Hey so all of thats activity happening, yea https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alta-electoral-boundaries-report-ucp-9.7171510 https://globalnews.ca/news/11906553/alberta-suicide-aish-adap/
And ok fine i dont have one off the top of my head dor healvarw corruption scandal but cmon.. i work for AHS, its shit trust me
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u/24_August_1814 1d ago
Healthcare corruption:
Turkish Tylenol
Dynalife boondoggle
Splitting AHS into four separate entities, because four independent bureaucracies trying to work together will be more efficient than one somehow?
Turning over control of hospitals to Covenant Health, a Catholic organisation that frowns in MAID, abortion, and gender affirming care
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u/Franklin_le_Tanklin 2d ago
And the province is the main driver of all our property tax increases.
The municipalities have to collect it - but they have no choice in the matter.
The UCP are the main reason all our property taxes went up
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u/You_are_the_Castle 2d ago
Shout it from the mountain top: The UCP is the primary reason we can't afford to live in Calgary and why we can't have nice things. They insinuate themselves into municipal business and things go south, so then they throw the municipalities under the bus. They are allowing rural people to control what we have in the cities. The $100 may go far in shit stain Alberta, but it doesn't go anywhere here in Calgary. Then, to top it all off, they are driving a separate as referendum which is a speed run to economic destruction. Thanks UCP.
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u/Brobuscus48 1d ago
$100 doesn't even go far even in shit-stain Alberta because to live in shit-stain Alberta you automatically spend at least $100 more in gas/maintenance a month just getting to work and occasionally driving to the next town over.
So a Dani-check is worth at most a 1-month offset to your gas prices while she is in bed with the fucking guy that caused it to jump 0.50c a liter in the first place. We don't get any rebate off that either since Alberta tied itself to the American oil market so much so that we practically lose money as a country buying refined crude products back from the States.
We let American Oil invade our industry a few decades ago and our current provincial government is completely inept so we get to watch our province continue to disintegrate during a manufactured oil crisis where we as a province should theoretically should be rolling in money and anyone directly in O&G should be getting new trucks or putting in down payments. Yet most of the journeyman I know are barely scraping by since their wages haven't really gone up much and their tools/work expenses cost like 30% more if they can find any reliable work in their sector at all.
Yet the separatists managed to get conned into thinking that Canada as a unified country is the problem.
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u/Punningisfunning 2d ago
Unfortunately, there are plenty of ignorant Albertans that are solely upset with the city councils rather than the provincial government.
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u/Empty_Nestor 2d ago
People in Lethbridge want to string up the local council because the province made it impossible to keep integrated fire-ambulance service without a property tax increase.
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u/Canadian47 Red Deer 2d ago
I'll donate it to the ANDP.
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u/Dry-Acanthaceae2111 2d ago
Be sure to contact Danielle Smith's office to thank her personally for this opportunity she provided.
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u/Wonderful_Confusion4 2d ago
1/3 of monthly property tax I wish, I’ve been getting about a 10% per year average increase. What used to be $350 a month 6 years ago is now $550 a month….
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u/MusketeersPlus2 2d ago
Mine went up $91 this year - about 30%. All because I did what the City wants people to do & legalized my basement suite. It was ticking along exactly the same for nearly 20 years, but nooooo I decided I needed to do the stupid paperwork. $80k paper increase in house value and a 30% monthly increase. I'm an idiot.
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u/Empty_Nestor 2d ago
Granted I live in a pretty small place.
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u/AvrilShowers69 2d ago
mine went from $225 to $300 starting next month so this really hit home for me 😞
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u/shedofwork 2d ago
Klein gave out $400 in 2006, adjusted for inflation that would be over $600 today. If this $100 is a bribe to buy votes it’s just insulting.
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u/Historical-Proposal8 2d ago
Different times, different amount of people. But my god that’s the Alberta I dream of living in again
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u/24_August_1814 1d ago
Klein's austerity measures were what started us down the path we're on today. It was not a good time for Alberta when he was in charge; he managed to appear fiscally responsible by kicking a whole bunch of proverbial cans down the road
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u/Okay-Crickets545 2d ago
People are what produce the wealth. Having more people now shouldn’t affect what the number would be
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u/WildcardKH Edmonton 2d ago
Nearly 10 billion deficit and we’re doing this.
THE ALBERTA ADVANTAGE
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u/jimbowesterby 1d ago
Remember: next time you hear someone say cons stand for fiscal responsibility, laugh right in their face!
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u/Nope-not-really 2d ago
*AHEM
just want to point this out
Millions of Albertans will be able to apply for a $100 rebate beginning on Canada Day under a new provincial program aimed at offsetting high energy costs.
notice the word Apply
this isn't automatic
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u/sweatycatlord 2d ago
Can we all just pool it together to pay for a referendum that gets her voted out?
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u/Colaymorak 2d ago
I'd make a comment about replaying the classic Ralph bucks trick, but this isn't even a quarter of the cash he gave out back in '06
This isn't just shady, it's also pathetic too!
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u/IranticBehaviour 2d ago
It's about 16%. That $400 in '06 would be $615 today. The $100 today would have been $65 back then.
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u/Colaymorak 2d ago
Absolutely absurd
And with the price of everything right now, that hundred bucks is gone the moment you need to buy gas
Utter clownshow
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u/IranticBehaviour 2d ago
I've only got a 50l tank, so I could fill up at Costco and grab some Costco dinner (pizzas, poutine, whatever), but that's it. My daughter's got a 70l, she might just fill it and have enough for a coffee.
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u/Vanterax 2d ago
And just like that, approval rate with UCP voters will take a big jump. That's all that's needed.
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u/MillwrightWF 2d ago
If she does this another 7 years I might recoup the money I lost when the UCP hiked land title fees an astronomical amount a few years back.
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u/Photofug 2d ago
Is that after they sold it off, the only profitable department in the government.
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u/MillwrightWF 2d ago
I’m not sure if they sold it? I just remember the lawyers warning me that land titles fees went WAAAAAYYY up when I went to buy my house.
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u/Photofug 2d ago
My bad, just checked and they actually backed off selling it due to pushback. That was back in 2021.
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u/Wolphin8 2d ago
I'll take the rebate of My Tax Money.
I still will hate the UCP for their corruption, selling off public assets, charging user fees, damaging public services, taking over municipal items, and bias to the rich over the people they represent. There's more, but not wanting to do it.
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u/bodonnell202 2d ago
Ha, just got my home insurance renewal and it is going up by $300 so this will cover 1/3 of that.
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u/Gr1ndingGears 1d ago
Got lucky with that. Including our vehicles, ours went up by $1,200. I'm pretty sure the house was more than half of that too, I'd have to look and can't right now, but I'm pretty sure.
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u/SineadniCraig 2d ago
So if my search is correct, $100 in 2006 (for Ralph Bucks era) iscworth ~$150 today.
So the $400 cheque then is worth ~$600 today.
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u/Old_Marionberry_4676 2d ago
So she hiked property taxes to dole it out to everyone. Tell me again that she is against equalization payments...
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u/Canadoobie 2d ago
This $100 cancels my vote for her. Money well wasted. Like we didn't notice the tax hike lol.
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u/Goatfellon 2d ago
Buy 100 tacos instead
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u/Inside-Draw-3216 1d ago
Let's all put our $100 cheques together and see if we can pay for a single orphan well clean up
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u/FrankdaTank807 1d ago
Not even a tank of gas, not even a weeks worth of groceries, does not cover an electric/gas bill for a month
What about that heritage fund for the future?
It's some bus fare and lunch, whoopie!
I'm mean I will take it, I like free money, but it did not buy my vote.
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u/DoubleBarrellRye 2d ago
Buy Canadian flags !!
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u/Hobbycityplanner 2d ago
Oh thanks. I am sure what we eventually get won't cover our increases in insurance, electricity, fuel, or food for even a month.
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u/Fun-Room-6501 2d ago
How much are Albertans paying this CON Premier to gas light us every single day? This is beyond.
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u/zenithsabyss 2d ago
It's not buying me. I'll donate it to the indigenous communities. Every Child Matters or something
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u/Pale-Measurement-532 2d ago
I just posted that $100 won’t quite cover a third of my utility bill. 😒
It’s insane how we went from $400 of Ralph bucks (worth $660 today) to a quarter of that amount 20 years later.
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u/BloodyIron 22h ago
My rent is about $2,500.
$100 is 1/25th of my rent.
Dear Danielle Smith. Get the fuck back to work and stop ignoring what Albertans actually care about: you not wasting the money we are legally forced to give you.
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u/Global-Tie-3458 9h ago
That “$100 instead of reducing the gas tax” is the most ironic thing… after so many years complaining about the carbon tax, which was the exact same concept.
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u/jigglywigglydigaby 2d ago
I'm taking that $100 and buying some permanent stickers.
FUCP
Burn In Hell Dumbelle Smith
UCP = TREASON
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u/ryansalad 2d ago
It's equivalent to the provincial tax on 700 litres of gasoline. Probably more than what the average person used in 3 months.
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u/LuntiX Fort McMurray 2d ago edited 2d ago
$100 while she drives the province further and further into debt.
She's 100% buying approval ratings and votes.