[trevorhayden]

Utterly and brazen corruption

 

[The_Cat]

Meanwhile, in Calgary:

 

[MacLac]

That’s a Cluster I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy……..

 

[CplKlinger]

No word on who is building or designing.

It hasn't gone out to tender yet.

 

[Airboy]

And late yesterday the CIO for AHS along with 19 others was booted. She was good and made our Digital health system the envy of Canada and quite a few other countries.

 

[policyenthusiast]

And late yesterday the CIO for AHS along with 19 others was booted. She was good and made our Digital health system the envy of Canada and quite a few other countries.

The dismantling of AHS is reminiscent of DOGE in the states. Absolutely directionless, hopelessly uninformed, politically-motivated firings that will immediately lower service quality and government capability.

AHS certainly needed a rework, but every change is making it worse.

 

[MacLac]

And late yesterday the CIO for AHS along with 19 others was booted. She was good and made our Digital health system the envy of Canada and quite a few other countries.

Who the hell is left to run or board for AHS? They’ve all been fired or forced to quit…..Ol’ Smitty’s grand scheme to dismantle it.

 

[Gronk!]

The dismantling of AHS is reminiscent of DOGE in the states. Absolutely directionless, hopelessly uninformed, politically-motivated firings that will immediately lower service quality and government capability.

AHS certainly needed a rework, but every change is making it worse.

The primary difference is that DOGE is in the hands of that billionaire buffoon known as Elon Musk whereas the dismantling of AHS is likely being done by some middle management bureaucrat.

 

[policyenthusiast]

In the words of Noam Chomsky,

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital."

 

[Airboy]

I saw last night that AHS payouts for those fired was somewhere around 16mill

And I would love to know which Canadian official said to the Trump group that AB and Sask would be willing to become 51st.

 

[Kosy123]

At this point, if you're a person of talent and skill, why in the hell would you want to be a top ranking public servant? Every single time there's a political decision that goes bust or you want a scapegoat, you just blame a bureaucrat for it and the public eats it up because "bureaucrat bad". At this rate we're going to be bleeding top rate talent to the private sector which offers better pay, and I don't blame them at all. Wage freezes, public scrutiny and constantly being thrown under the bus for doing your job? A job where your directives and actions are coming directly from elected officials? I don't think people realize that bureaucrats don't have as much autonomy as people would think when it comes to implementing public policy on a provincial level.

I know that the provincial bureaucracy has always had issues attracting skilled managerial/higher talent due to the pay differential when it comes to working for the public service and it's been a challenge to get that in other government services, but shit like this isn't helping at all.

 

[Airboy]

They better not fuck up Connect care and Net Care. These are probably the best thing AHS has ever done to stream line services. It only took 25 years.

 

[kcantor]

^
Anyone else wondering if we'd be better off without the UCP and reinstating AHS and having them run the province instead of who and what we have now fu**ing up everything they touch?

 

[erudyk_29]

At this point, if you're a person of talent and skill, why in the hell would you want to be a top ranking public servant? Every single time there's a political decision that goes bust or you want a scapegoat, you just blame a bureaucrat for it and the public eats it up because "bureaucrat bad". At this rate we're going to be bleeding top rate talent to the private sector which offers better pay, and I don't blame them at all. Wage freezes, public scrutiny and constantly being thrown under the bus for doing your job? A job where your directives and actions are coming directly from elected officials? I don't think people realize that bureaucrats don't have as much autonomy as people would think when it comes to implementing public policy on a provincial level.

I know that the provincial bureaucracy has always had issues attracting skilled managerial/higher talent due to the pay differential when it comes to working for the public service and it's been a challenge to get that in other government services, but shit like this isn't helping at all.

This 100%

The brain drain is here, not just leaving for the private sector, but people leaving for other provinces as well, where they actually respect front line workers. Another UCP term would mean all but the dissolution of AHS and education, funneled directly to Danielle Smith's wealthy donors on tab of the people of Alberta. It's absolutely shameful what they've done to our province and her base falls for the grift every. single. time.

 

[Gus Haynes]

The primary difference is that DOGE is in the hands of that billionaire buffoon known as Elon Musk whereas the dismantling of AHS is likely being done by some middle management bureaucrat.

Just wait for Danielle Smith to strike while the iron is hot and create an Alberta version of DOGE run by (who else??) Sam Mraiche.