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"I have fired the (Canadian) Horse Catcher"
RE: "I have fired the (Canadian) Horse Catcher"
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Considering that the votes listed as 'November 20, 2019, evening' went on past midnight and into the 21st I'm not sure that would have actually slowed anything down, not that anyone did so.

The bill is waiting for assent from the Lieutenant-Governor. This bill dissolves, as things with powers slightly outside the immediate grasp of the provincial government:
  • Alberta Sports Connection (Ran various athletic and sporting events, including to help fund the Special Olympics)
  • Alberta Historical Resources Foundation
  • Alberta Competitiveness Council (One of the organizations intended to try and diversify the Albertan economy away from Oil & Gas, but also to work on Oil & Gas)
  • Dissolve the position of Office of Election Commissioner (The Office investigating the UCP [the current governing party], and fining them, for cheating during the party's internal leadership race)
  • Dissolves the Alberta Capital Finance Authority (Provided loans for financing local capital projects)
  • Moves money away from the control of the Alberta Teachers Retirement Fund, Workers Compensation Board, AND Alberta Health Services to AIMCo (AIMCo is the only preexisting fund management in the province governed by provincial statue. Its returns are not as good as ATRF has been, I am less sure about the returns for the other funds.)
  • And as best as I can tell, does something to the Local Authorities Pension Plan, the Public Service Pension Plan and the Special Forces Pension Plan to prevent them from pulling their money out of AIMCo.
That's a whole lot of fiddling with money for something that isn't the budget from my perspective, and it also looks like a lot of effort to consolidate control as much as possible as closely to the government as possible.
EDIT: My apologies. This is part of implementing the budget officially, and so some of the money things make sense. Not money control ones, since at least the ATRF was paid for from returns and membership fees.

It also:
  • Drops the Mental Health Review panel from 4 members to 3,
  • Allows more teleconferencing for this
  • And takes the review period from 6 months to 12
I have no idea how this links with the rest, but there it is.
Main source: https://www.alberta.ca/implementing-budget-2019.aspx
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RE: "I have fired the (Canadian) Horse Catcher" - by nocarename - 11-22-2019, 01:39 AM

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