Alberta's United Conservative Party staffers may soon catch a whiff of the 'Kenney stink'
Maybe you've heard of the "Trump stink." As growing numbers of current and former Trump administration staffers, acolytes and random hangers-on fast realize that the president will not win re-election, they're getting busy dusting off their resumés and cold-calling the people in their networks looking for their next gig.
The way things have been going in Alberta lately, I wouldn't be at all surprised if United Conservative Party staffers and acolytes and various hangers-on will shortly come to know what the "Kenney stink" smells like.
The latest rotten egg smell wafting across the province, of course, comes from leaked elementary school curriculum proposals cooked up by a UCP-managed and directed "expert panel." Among other things, the panel thinks Alberta kids should "listen to, memorize, and tell parts of the Judeo-Christian creation story (Genesis) about the creation of stars, sun and moon, water and earth, birds and animals, plants, etc." Meantime, the panel also recommends cutting any references to residential schools because those stories are ugly and traumatic.
He's needlessly waged a costly and unwinnable war against doctors and nurses, and created an expensive and laughably incompetent "energy war room" meant to counter supposed "misinformation" aimed at the province's oil and gas sector. He appointed in 2019 a super-secret inquiry to root out and expose imaginary enemies of Alberta's energy sector, and he's squandered time and money and credibility appointing panels with pre-ordained conclusions sympathetic to UCP ideology.
He's made it easier for employers to take advantage of workers, laid the groundwork for selling off provincial parks, undermined Alberta's democratic institutions, and unfairly downloaded basic service costs to rural municipalities, urban-dwellers, seniors, parents and the severely disabled, to name just a few.[Read more]