Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's concerned such petition drives aren't using the recall legislation in good faith but instead, are trying to overthrow her government.
So how do you logically explain Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan last week advocating for recalls to “topple this government” as payback for the government’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to end a province wide teachers strike and then the first petition out of the gate was for the Education Minister’s job? Those two things are totally unrelated?
The person who initiated the first recall, Jennifer Yeremiy, is a former educator from the University of Alberta and currently a podcaster. Bit of an odd choice for the AFL to recruit considering she’s not even part of any union.
So an ex member of a union? Not exactly odd. I take your point that the union didnt *initiate *the recall. They cant, it has to be citizen. But they are obviously fully in support and any time the AFL boss says yes lets bring down this government and wages are on the line in future negotiations, union members are going to listen.
The truly odd part is that when the union’s bedmates, the NDP, were in power, teachers got no increase in pay at all, except for the one that had already been passed by the previous conservative government. So Im not sure exactly sure where the unions get the idea that if someone else were in power, they’d be in a better position.
Actually I just rechecked her LinkedIn and she was never was a professor at the U of A, though she was educated there. (She did run for MP, though, so there’s that).
You’d think everything would have paperwork submitted at this point if it was organized by the AFL. Instead it’s mostly just private Facebook groups. A lot don’t even groups organized against it.
It’s not like the AFL has to be “behind the scenes” on this anyway. The requirements behind recall are practically nonexistent.
It is solely a grassroots thing. There would be a lot more than two petitions gathering signatures right now if it wasn’t.
So how do you logically explain Alberta Federation of Labour president Gil McGowan last week advocating for recalls to “topple this government” as payback for the government’s use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause to end a province wide teachers strike and then the first petition out of the gate was for the Education Minister’s job? Those two things are totally unrelated?
Advocating for a recall isn’t the same thing as initiating one. The Education Minister was a logical first choice.
https://www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initiative/recall/Current-Recall-Petitions/
The person who initiated the first recall, Jennifer Yeremiy, is a former educator from the University of Alberta and currently a podcaster. Bit of an odd choice for the AFL to recruit considering she’s not even part of any union.
So an ex member of a union? Not exactly odd. I take your point that the union didnt *initiate *the recall. They cant, it has to be citizen. But they are obviously fully in support and any time the AFL boss says yes lets bring down this government and wages are on the line in future negotiations, union members are going to listen.
The truly odd part is that when the union’s bedmates, the NDP, were in power, teachers got no increase in pay at all, except for the one that had already been passed by the previous conservative government. So Im not sure exactly sure where the unions get the idea that if someone else were in power, they’d be in a better position.
Actually I just rechecked her LinkedIn and she was never was a professor at the U of A, though she was educated there. (She did run for MP, though, so there’s that).
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jenny-yeremiy-p-geoph
So no association with the AFL at all.
https://operationtotalrecall.ca/
(As started by This guy, so again not the AFL.)
You’d think everything would have paperwork submitted at this point if it was organized by the AFL. Instead it’s mostly just private Facebook groups. A lot don’t even groups organized against it.
It’s not like the AFL has to be “behind the scenes” on this anyway. The requirements behind recall are practically nonexistent.