{"id":42913,"date":"2019-01-17T10:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42913"},"modified":"2019-01-17T10:59:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:59:58","slug":"alberta-has-spent-23-million-calling-bc-an-enemy-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42913","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article__header\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__header\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<h3 data-bind=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2019\/01\/15\/Alberta-Spent-23-Million-BC-Enemy-Canada\/\">Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada<\/a><\/h3>\n<p data-bind=\"teaser\"><strong>Tyee FOI reveals pro-pipeline PR strategy, spiraling costs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"featured-media\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"02-organisms\/article\/featured-media\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<figure class=\"figure \" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2019\/01\/14\/kelowna-billboard-2.png\" alt=\"kelowna-billboard-2.png\" width=\"808\" height=\"555\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">Billboard on a Kelowna roadway, paid for by Albertans as part of a national campaign with the underlying theme: \u2018This is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada.\u2019 <span class=\"caption__media--credit\">Source: KeepCanadaWorking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/release.cfm?xID=55926F8BA9168-EF44-851D-9742103544F39059\">website<\/a>.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<article class=\"article__body main-col-container\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"organisms\/article\/article__body\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid clearfix \">\n<p>The Alberta government has spent more than $23 million \u2014 twice as much as previously revealed \u2014 in a campaign designed to turn the rest of Canada against B.C., The Tyee has learned.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"aside hide-on-narrow-vp\" data-dev-object-descrip=\"01-molecules\/blocks\/aside\" data-dev-status=\"IN-PROGRESS\"><\/aside>\n<p>The \u201cKeepCanadaWorking\u201d ad and PR campaign\u2019s top \u201cprinciple\u201d states, \u201cThis is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada,\u201d according to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information request.<\/p>\n<p>The documents show how an \u201cethnic campaign\u201d targeted residents of the Lower Mainland, Toronto suburbs and Ottawa who speak \u201cSpanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Filipino, Punjabi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Work first began in January, 2018 to create the campaign that promotes expanding the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, which would triple the volume of Alberta bitumen sent through the port of Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>As recently as Nov. 14, 2018, Rachel Notley\u2019s Alberta NDP government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/release.cfm?xID=62007BF55AF65-A9E6-FCCD-C2310BA75F5754BF\">stated<\/a> it had spent $10 million on the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 7, 2019, the Alberta government told The Tyee the amount had reached $23,040,463.90.<\/p>\n<p>The province\u2019s self-described \u201cfull-service\u201d public relations arm, the Communications and Public Engagement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alberta.ca\/communications-public-engagement.aspx\">CPE<\/a>) department, named that figure in an email responding to Freedom of Information requests filed by The Tyee.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two months, Alberta has dumped more than $13 million into its pro-pipeline public relations push, a provincial government spokesperson confirmed to The Tyee.<\/p>\n<p>What did $23 million in taxpayer money buy?<\/p>\n<p>Internal Alberta government documents obtained by The Tyee reveal the top \u201cprinciple\u201d of the so-called \u201cKeepCanadaWorking\u201d campaign: \u201cThis is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada Tyee FOI reveals pro-pipeline PR strategy, spiraling costs. Billboard on a Kelowna roadway, paid for by Albertans as part of a national campaign with the underlying theme: \u2018This is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada.\u2019 Source: KeepCanadaWorking website. The Alberta government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1082,94,24021,103,1161,5499],"class_list":["post-42913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-alberta","tag-british-columbia","tag-bryan-carney","tag-canada","tag-public-relations","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42914,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42913\/revisions\/42914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}