The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - August 06, 2022


Dr. Hinshaw gets a $227,911 Covid bonus

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Isaac Lamoureux
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Lila Ahir Adriana LaGrange
UCP Leadership candidates face-off Alberta takes aim at Trudeau’s handgun ban

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1,569

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This week, candidates are taking a break from the leadership race, there's still no sign of a provincial police force, and there's a new controversy involving a $233,000-a-year public servant. Plus, a story about a woman who helped save a boy who was being trampled by a bull.

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00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup with rachel emanuel some of you watching on video
00:00:16.740 might notice i'm coming to you from a different background today that's because i'm at home in
00:00:21.040 ontario visiting family in fact the room i'm coming to you from right now is the room where
00:00:25.480 i spent almost the entire two years of the covet 19 pandemic like alberta ontario underwent a
00:00:31.220 series of lockdowns and i spent most of them right here in this bedroom so it's certainly a little
00:00:35.800 bit bittersweet to be here right now on that note let's move into today's topic starting with the
00:00:40.540 ucp leadership race it's been a quiet front on the ucp leadership race this week seems like candidates
00:00:46.240 are taking a little bit easy after the intensive week last week which included the first ucp
00:00:51.180 leadership debate as we've previously discussed that being said we're seeing some interesting
00:00:55.380 policy proposals come forward rebecca schultz has been doing a lot on the health care front
00:00:59.980 and she now says if she's elected premier she would like to implement a funding model for fertility
00:01:04.900 treatments her campaign said they've received a lot of really positive feedback about this policy
00:01:09.840 i don't think that's super surprising a lot of women have fertility issues nowadays there's a lot 1.00
00:01:13.980 of hormonal conditions out there so it's great to see this policy hopefully we see some more discussion
00:01:18.040 on it from some of the other candidates schultz also said that she would not support a provincial
00:01:22.400 police force if she's elected premier she follows brian gene who's already said he doesn't favor a
00:01:27.400 provincial police force some of the other candidates have promised to enact one including danielle smith
00:01:32.060 todd lowen and travis taves with the caveat that tave said he's not going to force one down people's
00:01:37.440 throat but he's going to work to bring people along and get agreement on it meanwhile ucp leadership
00:01:42.380 candidates rajan sani and leela here haven't been quite as clear if they'd like to see one
00:01:47.220 they've shown some skepticism about the idea of a provincial police force they've said there
00:01:51.660 hasn't been enough consultation on one and the province hasn't really proved the burden of why
00:01:55.800 one is needed danielle smith has been busy meeting with supporters again this week and she's also
00:02:00.460 reminded them that just her and todd lowen have so far agreed to never lock down the province again
00:02:05.500 meanwhile ucp leadership candidate todd lowen is now releasing vlogs every day so people can see
00:02:10.080 what he's up to his campaign told me people are really enjoying watching the vlogs and being able to
00:02:14.800 support lowen by following him along the campaign trail let's talk about leela ahir for a minute
00:02:19.600 this is a totally crazy story at the strathmore stampede last weekend leela ahir helped a boy
00:02:25.420 who was being trampled by a bull just go ahead and take a look at this video for a second
00:02:29.840 you can even hear the panic of the crowd in the background i think this is one of those things
00:02:58.860 where we all like to think we would have been the person to jump in and to save the boy who was
00:03:03.160 being trampled by the bull but let's be honest how many of us actually would have done that so kudos
00:03:07.600 to leela i think this was a really brave action um i spoke to her about it earlier this week she
00:03:12.920 seemed pretty shocked by it to be honest there was a lot of emotion in her voice when we spoke
00:03:16.800 and she just kept saying you know i couldn't even remember what had happened i didn't even know what
00:03:21.280 i had done and i was so shocked when i saw video footage of the incident later which i think is how
00:03:26.220 we all feel when something kind of traumatic or shocking happens to us fortunately the boy seems
00:03:30.880 okay leela said he definitely had some scrapes but he was also out partying later that night so
00:03:36.060 good for him let's move into the controversy of the week i'm sure you guys can already guess what this
00:03:40.440 is going to be chief medical health officer dr dina hinsha walked home with a 227 000 covid bonus this
00:03:47.860 year now that's in addition to her 363 000 salary that she already earns i'm seeing a lot of commentary
00:03:54.640 about this online people are really upset that she was able to pocket so much of taxpayers money
00:03:59.400 in addition to her already pretty hefty salary a lot of the ucp leadership candidates are coming out
00:04:04.320 brian jean said people are unsettled by it danielle smith said people are rightly stunned and outraged
00:04:09.380 and todd lowen keeps asking did cabinet have any control over this decisions who let the money out
00:04:14.920 and is there going to be some answers on it i think that's the question we're all asking ourselves
00:04:19.140 right now how is this bonus approved now the public sector keeps on saying that there is an
00:04:24.160 existing formula that was used to approve the bonus for her overtime work but at the end of the 0.99
00:04:29.100 day it seems like someone from cabinet really should have signed off on this and we haven't
00:04:32.440 gotten any answers on who that was so i'm sure we're going to continue to see more about the story in the
00:04:37.420 coming weeks but for now i think the thing that really gets all of us is that we were asked to
00:04:42.240 sacrifice during the covid19 pandemic we stayed home people you know lost their jobs they lost their
00:04:47.800 businesses that were closed some people lost their jobs because they were unwilling to get the covid19
00:04:52.440 vaccine as is their right and so many of us sacrifices especially in financial ways and then
00:04:57.600 to see you know the civil servant who was in charge of making those decisions benefit and take home over
00:05:03.160 half a million at the end of the day it just sits not well with a lot of people let's move into what
00:05:08.020 we're watching so there's two stories that i think we're going to be watching headed into next week and
00:05:12.420 the week after the first is that the cutoff to purchase a ucp membership is on august 12th so that's next
00:05:18.320 friday so if you guys don't already have your ucp membership you should absolutely get one this is a
00:05:23.140 really important race because you're not just voting for the leader of a party you're actually
00:05:26.980 voting for a premier and campaigns that i've spoken to have said they expect less than a hundred
00:05:31.700 thousand people to be involved in making this decision so now there's over four million people
00:05:36.660 in alberta so if you make a vote you know you're actually going to have a lot of say with that vote so
00:05:40.520 you know even if you're not a conservative it might be worth it to get a ballot and to cast one in
00:05:44.660 there for your favorite candidate another thing that i want to talk to you guys about is nominations
00:05:48.760 so i've heard so many complaints from people about nominations being open during an ongoing
00:05:53.840 ucp leadership race you know danielle smith has said she would consider reopening some of those
00:05:58.720 nominations in the areas where local members felt like the process wasn't fair or where someone was
00:06:03.420 disqualified improperly that being said we currently have a nomination contest ongoing where the sitting
00:06:09.240 education minister adriana lagrange is being challenged for her seat by andrew cluse now cluse
00:06:15.500 he's the co-founder of a group called hold the line and he's very well known in the region there's
00:06:20.640 about a thousand members in the region that are part of his group and there's 996 ucp members in his
00:06:26.520 writing so he has a lot of publicity for the work that he's done with this group which basically sought
00:06:31.020 to help people impacted by the covid19 pandemic and by vaccine coercion for example you know someone lost
00:06:37.080 their job because they were unwilling to get the vaccine the group would provide financial support
00:06:41.320 or otherwise help them find a job things like that he said he was motivated to run in the race because
00:06:47.260 he thinks lagrange showed a complete lack of support for the freedom movement he's going to be running
00:06:52.200 against lagrange on august 18th and it's already too late to purchase a membership for that contest
00:06:56.860 you had to purchase a membership 21 days ahead of the vote similar to how if you want to vote for the
00:07:01.640 ucp leader you have to have a membership by august 12th so that's definitely something to keep our eye
00:07:06.720 out for this could be the first time where we see you know a sitting ucp mla lose their nomination to
00:07:12.180 a new candidate so i will keep you guys updated with how many members we see in the ucp as of next
00:07:17.940 friday when the cutoff is done and we'll have some results for you in about two weeks as to who won
00:07:22.040 that nomination contest if there's any stories you think i missed today and would like to chat about
00:07:26.520 feel free to reach me online you can find me on twitter or facebook i hope you guys enjoyed the show
00:07:30.740 and i'll see you next week