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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦
@SPhillipsAB
Founding Partner, MB&P Policy Advisors. Former Alberta NDP MLA, Min.of Environment&Parks/Climate Change. I’m not here, I’m on Bluesky.
Alberta, Canada
Joined May 2009
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    Premier @jkenney threatened to have his rich insurance lobbyist friends sue me for standing up for affordable car insurance rates today. He told me to “take it outside.” So I did! I said the same words that prompted him to try to intimidate me with a lawsuit. Bring it! #ableg
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    So Premier @jkenney just threatened to have me sued for asking questions about people’s car insurance rates. Literally he just told me to “step outside” and encouraged his friends in big insurance companies to take legal action against me. How’s your day? #ableg
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    I can’t actually believe @jkenney has, as of 8am on Nov 17, with every highway out of Vancouver closed, with loss of life and property, said absolutely nothing as a statement of support for BC. As @CorbLund once sang: Mighty neighbourly. Mighty neighbourly. #ableg
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    It is incredibly irresponsible to stoke fears of food insecurity and encourage panic-buying for self-serving political aims. This hurts our lowest-income & most food-insecure neighbours most. There is enough to go around - food, jobs, education, life-saving vaccines. #ableg
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    He knew he'd be outnumbered, he wasn't surprised when he was spit on, shoved and shouted at, but one man in Kelowna says he just couldn't sit idly by while a thousand people protested COVID-19 vaccines and restrictions outside the hospital bit.ly/3gVbrYa
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    Replying to @SPhillipsAB
    It took these Conservatives - working together for their own cynical, self-interested political ends - approx 2 months to collapse Alberta’s $25 billion public health care system, one of the finest in the world. Imagine what will happen if O’Toole has real power. #cdnpoli #ableg
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    Genuine question… if the NDP win in May, would the UCP want us to have these grossly undemocratic and dictator-like powers? If not… why do the UCP think it’s a good idea that they have them?
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    This is incredibly irresponsible, @TravisToewsUCP. Albertans will take their health advice from medical professionals, not from an accountant who lost track of four billion dollars. #ableg 🧵
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    Back in 2016, a guy called in to my Ministerial office and told the receptionist he was coming down to shoot us because he didn’t like what he heard on the Danielle Smith radio show about the carbon tax.
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    Perhaps some context. Since the pro-covid protests began a week ago, Alberta recorded 105 deaths from covid-19. I don't think we need to be nice to people advocating for more death and grieving. Personally, I've lost my patience with pro-death agitators. #ableg
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    Pulled over to snap a photo of this fantastic new billboard in Fort Macleod, Alberta. Five stars, Town of Fort Macleod Diversity & Inclusion. Five stars. Thank you for this act of love for our province and the democracy that makes us who we are. ❤️ #ableg #lethbridge #yql
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    It’s pretty well-known in political circles that O’Toole campaign was furious w/ Kenney last night, because he didn’t wait to bring in restrictions etc until after Sept 20. Also obvious: @jkenney basically bodychecked Hinshaw off the podium when media asked about timing (contd)
    Asked twice about his comments about @jkenney’s handling of the pandemic by @rachaiello @erinotoole completely deflects and avoids answering #cdnpoli #Elxn44
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