Kudos to Darcy Henton and Jason Markusoff of the Edmonton Journal for writing a feature article on the deluge of political patronage currently present in Alberta. The Journal also went through and detailed a list of provincially appointed boards and their card carrying Progressive Conservative Party members.
Here are the top 40 boards with the highest percentages of card-carrying Conservatives serving on them.Click here to see the list of the 100 provincially appointed Boards and Government agencies stacked with Tory appointees.
Health boards and regions
- Peace Country Health Region: 13 Tories / 13-member board
- East Central Health: 9 Tories / 12-member board
- Capital Health: 8 Tories / 14-member board
- Calgary Health: 7 Tories / 13-member board
- Aspen Health Region: 11 Tories / 14-member board
- David Thompson Health: 11 Tories / 15-member board
- Chinook Health: 7 Tories / 12-member board
- Northern Lights Health: 7 Tories / 12-member board
- Palliser Health Region: 7 Tories / 13-member board
- Alberta Cancer Board: 5 Tories / 10-member board
- Health Quality Council: 4 Tories / 8-member board
- Public Health Appeal Board: 2 Tories / 4-member board
- Health Facilities Review Board: 8 Tories / 12-member board
Post-secondary Institutions
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology: 8 Tories / 12-member board
- Portage College: 5 Tories / 7-member board
- Lethbridge College: 4 Tories / 7-member board
- Athabasca University: 6 Tories / 11-member board
- Red Deer College: 3 Tories / 6-member board
- Mount Royal College: 5 Tories / 10-member board
financial
- ATB Financial: 9 Tories / 13-member board
- Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corp.: 4 Tories / 8-member board
addictions and disabilities
- Premier's Council on the Status of Persons with Disabilities: 5 Tories / 8-member board
- Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission: 7 Tories / 10-member board
- Crystal Meth Task Force: 7 Tories / 12-member board
- Northwest Alberta Persons with Developmental Disabilities: 6 Tories / 7-member board
Agriculture
- Alberta Grain Commission: 8 Tories / 11-member board
- Agriculture Products Marketing Council: 7 Tories / 11-member board
- Alberta Agriculture Research Institute: 4 Tories / 7-member board
Other
- Seniors Advisory Council: 8 Tories / 10-member board
- Northern Alberta Development Council: 9 Tories / 10-member board
- Worker's Compensation Board: 3 Tories / 4-member board
- Alberta Foundation of the Arts: 6 Tories / 10-member board
- Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission: 6 Tories / 7-member board
- Alberta Economic Development Authority: 29 Tories / 60-member board
- Alberta Order of Excellence Council: 6 Tories / 6-member board
- Social Care Facilities Review Commission: 7 Tories / 11-member board
- Alberta Science and Research Authority: 9 Tories / 19-member board
- Northeast PDD Board: 5 Tories / 7-member board
- Alberta Fatality Review Board: 3 Tories / 3-member board
- Rural Alberta's Development Fund: 6 Tories / 12-member board
Tomorrow, the Edmonton Journal will be profiling the process which allows the Progressive Conservatives to commit this degree of political patronage.
UPDATE: Calgary-Nose Hill MLA Neil Brown says there's nothing wrong with these appointments.
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4 comments:
Well they have to appoint all those Tories to those boards, since we don't have a provincial senate for the Alberta PC's to appoint people to. Have to reward the faithful somehow.
The Herald and Journal this is some shocking revelation. I wonder if the federal Liberals ever appointed party members and supporters to various boarda, agencies and commissions?
Foottothefire here:-
Daveberta, great post but very old news.
The media in Alberta has been "owned" in so many ways by so few people that this very, very, very, old news has been quashed forever.
Real news would be the revelations of fraud, conducting real audits and charges laid for obstruction of justice; the hall mark signatures of Tories from Lougheed to klien.
Maybe this is a start
The Alberta Tories are no different than the Federal Liberals. Cronyism rules and is a large reason how the provincial tories have been able to sustain their power over 36 years.
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