UCP patience is fading, although not yet exhausted, over slips involving logos and clumsy attacks on Alberta critics
You have plenty of company there — including the Alberta government.“We obviously would have preferred for things to go more smoothly,” says Christine Myatt, Premier Jason Kenney’s deputy communications director.“Right now, it’s just about smoothing out the bumps.
On Monday, NDP energy critic Irfan Sabir called for the government to disband the centre and put its $30-million annual budget to better use. The UCP points out that two-thirds of the funding comes from the industry carbon tax, and the rest is money the NDP had planned to spend, “re-profiled” to the CEC budget.
At the launch on Dec. 11, Kenney said: “We were not doing nearly enough to tell the truth in response to a campaign of lies, of defamation and disinformation based on torqued, dated and incomplete and out of context attacks on our energy sector.”There’s no question that the industry is often unfairly portrayed and attacked. Many critics will never have a kind word to say. The government has every right to respond.
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