See my other pinned posts. You'll find the AISH and CDB cuts listed here, as well as new negative developments in that regard. In short: The UCP is stealing money from disabled people, and making it increasingly impossible for them to meet the barest of essential needs.

The UCP is refusing to fund education and healthcare properly, and is actively attempting to privatize the latter, and destroy the unionizing and bargaining power of the former.

The UCP is also leading the charge in Canada to attack refugees, immigrants, people of colour, and queer and trans people. I go into that further in the next bit.

Among last year's UCP AGM policy proposals, included were those that would:

• Try to enact greater control over immigration to Alberta (including who, and how many people, could do so)
• Enforce "female-only" spaces, based on assigned sex at birth.
• Eliminate DEI hiring practices (particularly relevant to all of the above points, given that these policies are created to help eliminiate racial, able-bodied, and gendered bias in hiring)
• Create a ban on "sexually explicit" performances in public spaces, or publicly-funded spaces (this has been used as a pretext to ban drag performances, even perfectly-age-appropriate performances)
• Force federal/international entities to align with Alberta's wishes in their operations and policies, or to get the fuck out. (Edit: I should note that this, in the AGM proposal, directly includes social matters in its criteria for what entities would need to follow. National policy, as well as policy formed overseas, would presumably not apply if you wanted to operate in Alberta. I don't know how much, or to what extent, this could actually be enforced.)
• Require disclosure of funding for all groups protesting to try to influence Albertan governmental decisions. It is hard to know how far this would reach.
• Removing the designation of CO2 as a pollutant, and recognize that it is a fundamental nutrient to life on Earth (no, seriously!)
• Ensure that, for trans people, AHS funding could not be used for any transition-related care, at any age. Instead, the individual would be fully on the hook for it.
• Enforce two biological sexes, and ensure that nothing other than "M" or "F" can go on your documents. (While it is not stated here, it can be assumed that these would be based on what was assigned at birth).

There are more, and if you would like to read, here is the link to the UCP's 2024 AGM. (Link goes directly to a PDF)

https://www.unitedconservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/Resolutions-2024.pdf

Their legislative session starts again in October, with an upcoming committee meeting in September.

This one sticks out to me like a sore thumb.

These people really do twist our words to make it seem like we want everything or nothing, don't they.

"Stewardship," my ass.

This was directly listed in the UCP's 2024 AGM Policy Proposals.

They're dead fucking serious about attacking queer and trans people. While other groups are absolutely getting targeted and harmed (see above posts, as well as my pinned on the attacks on AISH), several of the AGM proposals were either directly about us, or were using smokescreened language to take sideswipes at us.

And yes, these policies would not just stop at kids, or at athletes. They want to cut public funding for transition-related care entirely, for trans people of any age.

(Fun fact: That last one was put forward by MLA Brandon Lunty, in Leduc-Beaumont)

#ABpol #CanPol #transphobia
https://mstdn.ca/@DavidM_yeg/115130228215469370

Fun fact: the Alberta government tried to pull out the Notwithstanding Clause¹ to kill marriage equality, back in 2000.²

Guess what we're doing now...trying to pull the same shit on trans people! And we only know about this, thanks to a leaked memo.³

Side note: while the memo says they only want to pull the Clause out for three proposed bills, I wouldn't be surprised if they also try to pull it for MLA Brandon Lunty's proposal that all trans-related healthcare should be patient-funded. (UCP AGM Policy Proposal number 14)⁴

#Alberta #Canada #CanPol #ABpol

¹ https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/2019/07/notwithstanding-clause-2/

² https://cphs.ca/on-this-day-in-history-albertas-bill-202/

³ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-transgender-legislation-1.7637890

⁴ https://www.unitedconservative.ca/wp-content/uploads/Resolutions-2024.pdf

EDIT: Bill 9 might be heading to the legislature floor TODAY. What is in this bill that the UCP isn't telling us? We can't see it on the Legislative session website, the news article about it only gives its name, and they've not only cancelled session (conveniently, when a bunch of trans people were scheduling themselves to sit in on the session...), but we're having to find out from the grapevine whether it's being tabled today, tomorrow, some other day...

Whatever is in Bill 9 that the UCP clearly doesn't want us to see: it's not good.

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The session for Bill 9 has been delayed to THIS WEDNESDAY. Local advocacy groups (Trans Rights YEG and RaricaNOW) have asked that you show up to the Legislature session itself, to make your presence as a trans ally known. They also suggested emailing your MLA for a seat reservation, if possible.

¹ The Alberta legislature has yet to announce to the public what is contained within Bill 9. We know virtually nothing about it, however, we do know that it is called the "Protecting Alberta’s Children Statutes Amendment Act." Activists and allies have expressed concerns about the language of the bill's title, because this language is common in MAGA-style transphobic attacks on children and youth.

² We also know that Smith and the UCP intend to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to advance Bills 26, 27, and 29 - all bills that would restrict and attack the rights of transgender youth in sports, school, and in healthcare.

³ HOWEVER, I'd like to highlight that the Alberta Federation of Labour has taken notice, after the Notwithstanding was used to force 51,000 striking teachers back to work, not even a month ago. The AFL is made up of many different unions, including chapters of CUPE and CUPW (Public Employees and Postal Workers, respectively), and their leader has issued a statement in support of us.

⁴ Combined with the efforts of other labour unions to stand up to the UCP and stand with each other, it's nice to know that we're not totally alone in this fight. This also serves to highlight the facts that:

• When one of us is under attack, all of us are under attack.

• Any labour organizing effort that is worth a damn knows not to throw minorities (racial, gender, sexual, dis/ability, etc.) under the bus - otherwise, you're not supporting all of your workers. This is nothing new, and unionists have always been there, standing for your rights. For ours.

#ABpol #CanPol #YEG #YYC #edmonton #calgary #canada #transgender #TransNews #alberta #transphobia

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¹ https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/status-or-statute-mispronunciation-delays-introduction-of-ucp-bill

² https://inmagazine.ca/2025/09/albertas-government-threatens-to-use-the-notwithstanding-clause-on-trans-laws/

³ https://afl.org/organized-labour-stands-in-support-of-trans-people-against-bill-9s-politics-of-division/

⁴ https://globalnews.ca/news/11500727/alberta-federation-of-labour-notwithstanding-clause/

On Monday, advocates gathered at the legislature in expectation the government would invoke the notwithstanding clause

Quin Bergman, an Edmonton high school student who skipped class to join others on the legislature grounds, said their sibling was driven to suicide by an onslaught of hate toward transgender people.

Conveniently enough, however, the UCP decided to delay the introduction of Bill 9 until Wednesday, and then decided to introduce it on Tuesday afternoon. People were having to rely on back-channel sources shared with local trans activist groups (thank you Trans Rights YEG ❤️) just to figure out when Bill 9 would even be introduced. Not what would be in it. Just when it would be brought to session.

The bill was not listed anywhere on the session website. The only thing we knew about this, officially, was its name...because of a news article, that discussed nothing of the bill's contents. Only the fact that a part of it was misspoken in session.

Now, I wonder why they would possibly do that? Especially when people had already decided to put out the gathering call online, to physically attend the session on Monday, in order make their presence as trans people and allies known? Especially when making details of the bill known ahead of time would lead to intense scrutiny and denouncement from multiple human rights organizations here in Canada?

Hmm...it's almost like they just want to attack trans people. But what do I know? 🤷‍♂️

#ABpol #CanPol #Alberta #Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-government-notwithstanding-clause-bills-9.6983786

https://globalnews.ca/news/11531872/alberta-transgender-laws-notwithstanding-clause/