Extra info about yesterday's late breaking update to the ‘mafia style’ allegations levelled at the AER, and more from Duff Conacher’s fight for a stronger democracy in Canada.
Spilling the tea…in my new Substack post.
The final recommendations of Alberta’s Electoral Boundaries Commission released yesterday are probably about the best that could be expected given the ridiculous limitation that only two additional seats could be added to the Legislature’s current 87 despite the province’s burgeoning population. After all, the commissioners had to draw the lines somewhere, and the way they […]
"...the fact that the UCP-appointed chair of the commission felt the need to write that it was unconstitutional and wrong tells you what you need to know..."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/electoral-boundary-commission-dallas-miller-9.7143937
Alberta’s electoral boundaries commission issued a final report Thursday that proposed removing two rural seats from Alberta’s political map, but it was accompanied by a starkly different “minority report” alternative that proposed splicing several big-city ridings with rural seats.
BREAKING NEWS: The AER declares no need for a conflict of interest investigation…because this kind of thing with Yager is pretty normal for our board and it’s up to each individual to behave ethically?
I don’t know. Tell me what you think this all means.
Dwight Popowich and legal group Ecojustice are seeking an ethics investigation into AER director David Yager over alleged conflicts of interest. They say the regulator’s demand for an unrecorded meeting has stalled the process, a claim the AER denies.
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