Karen Berger

'Whatever This Is' is back, and we're starting with a doozy. We unpack Canada's fast lane to authoritarianism—The Notwithstanding Clause.

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This is tantamount to modern day slavery.

Smith is a coward.

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$500 a day fines to teachers? $500,000 a day to the union?

This is fucking insane. So much for the party of "Freedom" and "Choice" - what a bunch of asshats.

I was going to say that you’re making lemonade out of lemons but it’s more like making fertilizer out of 💩💩💩

Let's be clear about what happened today.

Premier Smith introduced a bill to strip Albertans of Charter rights,

denied MLAs the opportunity to debate it and the courts the ability to scrutinize it,

and did all of this from her seat on a jet to Saudi Arabia.

I'm the next few days, it would be a mistake to:
❌️ limit the resistance to the teachers' demands or saving public education
❌️ make labour/workers/unions the only faces of opposition

The UCP's pre-emptive use of the notwithstanding clause is much broader than one strike or one set of rights.

YouTube video by TransAction Alberta Alberta: Protect Trans Youth, Protect the Charter.

Remember that the Alberta government plans to use the Notwithstanding Clause AGAIN this week to erase the right of trans youth to seek life-saving, evidence-based medical care.

No rights are safe when the Clause is used for political expediency.
transactionalberta.ca
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Anyone who wants a COVID or flu vaccine

Seniors

Persons with disabilities.

Alberta’s latest pipeline push dredges up ghosts of projects past Few are as acquainted with Canada’s graveyard of defunct oil pipelines as Alex Pourbaix, a former executive at the company behind the Keystone XL and Energy East proposals.

Having burned $3B+ AB taxpayer dollars on the aborted Keystone pipeline & tank car sh*t, the UCP is pursuing additional pipeline opportunities. How many more of our taxpayer dollars need to go up in smoke while our health, education & social service systems all suffer under these ignorant rubes?

In Alberta, having an eligible mental health disorder (like depression) qualifies you for free COVID-19 vaccine. There must be at least 2 million Albertans chronically depressed by the actions of this ridiculous, bumbling and pissy government. That sounds like free shots for most of us.

Weird thing is every physician I’ve been talking are shaking their heads and wondering who could possibly be advising this…

It is so poorly thought out and so obviously going to be disastrous…

Danielle Smith's justification for charging Albertans for vaccines & requiring pre-orders, is that it's saving $$ due to less waste. But is it really?

No. The answer is no. Hospitalization is expensive. We'll have more sick & dead people, AND it'll cost more. Fiscal conservatives, my ass 🤬.

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YouTube video by Peter Guthrie MLA Peter Guthrie's Response to Justice Wyant's Report

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This is absolutely insane. I had to make sure it wasn’t fake news.

Alberta is forgetting the hard-won lessons of Northern Gateway If Danielle Smith wants to build another pipeline across British Columbia, she might want to spend some time actually trying to understand what makes it tick first.

Nearly a decade after Northern Gateway was killed by the courts, Alberta Conservatives like Danielle Smith still haven't bothered to learn the lessons it offered about BC's unique political and legal geography.

It's going to cost them — again. #cdnpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/16/o...

"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80B in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120B in green technology over the same period."

Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️

wake up, hosers

new petition just dropped

e-6818 is calling to strengthen the Canada Health Act to stop provinces from privatizing health care and to force provinces to account for how and where they used health transfer money

The 14M dollars Smith has committed to a pipeline going nowhere would cover the entire cost of COVID vaccines.
Smith likes to day "saving taxpayer dollars" to justify her decision yet she never hesitate to spend huge amounts on pet projects: multiple panels, Dynalife fiasco, bloated govt, etc.

40% of Alberta's children are food insecure
Read that again

That is a shameful indictment of the UCP
They have made life worse…way worse for Alberta's children

While the UCP are busy pushing Alberta separation children are going hungry
Disgusting
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And what is he prepared to sacrifice to get a tariff free deal? Canada’s sovereignty? Hello 51st state?

Thread. But read these words. This is on the UCP.

patients "are suffering and dying"

Could be a loved one, could be you. For no other reason except ideology. Also partly due to COVID restrictions - actions taken to save lives and keep our health care workers from being even more overwhelmed.

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

As things get worse, and as pts are suffering and dying, there will be no ability for our system to work in a coordinated fashion to try to mitigate severe overcrowding...

There is ABSOLUTELY NO operational control of our entire HC system anymore...

Govt broke it...

It’s not about money. It’s about power.

So rather than properly fund Alberta classrooms & support our kids, the UCP would rather waste YOUR taxpayer dollars on an ad campaign to attack teachers.

Make it make sense!
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Ottawa urges Supreme Court to set limits on how provinces can override Charter | CBC News Ottawa brought forward the request in a written legal argument filed at the court on Wednesday, as part of the landmark case on Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21.

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Good for PM Carney & the fed govt. With the rise of the far right, Danielle Smith, & Poilievre’s threats to use the notwithstanding clause, this needs to go before the Supreme Court.
Just look to the US to see what happens when the radicals have too much power. #NeverCons

Context for non-Canadians: invoking the notwithstanding clause admits the law would otherwise be flagrantly unconstitutional. It has only previously been used by the province of Quebec (to justify single-language laws), it's like voluntarily declaring your law is an unconstitutional abomination.