Talk about embarrassing! Jim Dinning lends his faded credibility to Danielle Smith’s pension snake oil scam – Alberta Politics
Talk about embarrassing! Jim Dinning lends his faded credibility to Danielle Smith’s pension snake oil scam – Alberta Politics: What a pathetic coda to the respectable if not quite illustrious political career of Jim Dinning!
Once the whiz kid and heir apparent of Alberta’s Conservative establishment, Mr. Dinning has resurfaced years later as chief snake-oil salesman for the scam artists and would-be separatists dreaming of hijacking half the Canada Pension Plan’s investment fund.
Mr. Dinning may not have gotten to be the premier of Alberta in 2006, when he was widely seen as front-runner in what was supposed to be not much more than a two-horse race with another former Progressive Conservative finance minister, Ted Morton.
Still, he need not be embarrassed by what must have been a big disappointment after he raised $2 million for the contest to replace Ralph Klein and at one point held a 20-point lead over Dr. Morton and a 40-point lead over the eventual winner, Ed Stelmach.
We’ll never know how Mr. Dinning would have performed as premier – perhaps not that badly with his experience as a three-term Calgary MLA, finance minister from 1992 to 1997, and habitué of corporate executive suites after he left politics in 1997.
In the event, Mr. Stelmach turned out to be as good a Conservative premier as Alberta could have hoped for in 2006. Dr. Morton, of course, was almost certainly the worst premier the province never had.
Beware: Substack newsletter links may contain spyware, malware and viruses
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Alberta premier defends minister over possible conflict of interest concerns
Alberta premier defends minister over possible conflict of interest concerns
Rebecca Schulz is the minister of Environment and Protected Areas. Her husband is Cole Schulz, a partner in the firm Garrison Strategies.
Alberta’s lobbyist registry records show the firm is trying to influence the government on how reclamation certificates for oil and gas sites are issued. It is also lobbying for the oil and gas industry to have more access to what is now protected caribou habitat, saying it seeks to “address the moratorium on tenure in caribou regions to allow better land access and investment.”
In 2013, the provincial government imposed a moratorium on granting new energy leases on the ranges of the Little Smoky and A La Peche herds in northwest Alberta.
At the time, at least 95 per cent of the Little Smoky herd’s range was classified as heavily damaged. Between 2009 and 2010, the province leased 84 per cent of the land in a relatively undisturbed two-township region of the Little Smoky range.
Smith said Wednesday the province’s ethics commissioner has reviewed the situation and approved it.
“The ethics commissioner has looked at it, given guidance and there’s no violation,” she said. |Read more https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-premier-defends-minister-over-possible-conflict-of-interest-concerns-1.6579849| calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-pre…
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School bus hit by another driver in northern Alberta: RCMP
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