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I just read this article that points out the bargaining in bad faith by the @shandro guy. I don't know why government can't behave ethically but the timeline of this evidence is troubling. @Albertadoctors https://siever.ca/kim/2020/04/09/ama-suing-tyler-shandro-for-over-255m/
Basically @shandro @GoAHealth started the legislation to break the contract with @Albertadoctors before they even started negotiations:
Prior to negotiation, Shandro introduced Bill 21, the “Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability Act, 2019” for first reading on 28 October 2019.
Prior to negotiation, Shandro introduced Bill 21, the “Ensuring Fiscal Sustainability Act, 2019” for first reading on 28 October 2019.
So this bill 21 is designed to allow the @shandro guy to do whatever he wants to do. @Albertadoctors
"it also proposed changes to the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act, including the ability of the minister to terminate any agreement with the AMA."
"it also proposed changes to the Alberta Health Care Insurance Act, including the ability of the minister to terminate any agreement with the AMA."
I was puzzled why @shandro would do the work for the legislation BEFORE the negotiation. The work takes a long time too so this means that even though it was introduced on 28 October 2019 work on this bill must have begun months before the @Albertadoctors were contacted on 3 Sept
If this is the case that work on the legislation by @shandro began in say July-August, 2019 then this must mean the @GoAHealth had a game plan to negotiate in bad faith with @Albertadoctors and were simply going through the motions of negotiation. Wow. Unethical. Just wrong.
So the @Albertadoctors go into negotiations all innocent and responsive.
https://siever.ca/kim/2020/04/09/ama-suing-tyler-shandro-for-over-255m/ The AMA responded by maintaining that all items put forward by either the AMA or Alberta Health were negotiable, and in that vein provided responses to the above proposals.
https://siever.ca/kim/2020/04/09/ama-suing-tyler-shandro-for-over-255m/ The AMA responded by maintaining that all items put forward by either the AMA or Alberta Health were negotiable, and in that vein provided responses to the above proposals.
Meanwhile @shandro got the bill through. @Albertadoctors
"Bill 21 received royal assent on 5 December"
"The bill granted power to the minister to terminate agreements right as the AMA and Alberta Health were negotiating an agreement."
"Bill 21 received royal assent on 5 December"
"The bill granted power to the minister to terminate agreements right as the AMA and Alberta Health were negotiating an agreement."
So what I think this bill does is that it makes it legal for @shandro to break a contract. But how is this even possible? A contract is an agreement that cannot be broken. I'm surprised. Isn't this anti-democratic work? @Albertadoctors don't know it's checkmate. Mediation.
Then @shandro pretends to go into mediation when @GoAHealth really has the checkmate all planned. You can't make this stuff up. A lawyer breaks a contract with @Albertadoctors even after agreeing to mediation. Wow. The MDs didn't have a chance in hell with this group.
Feb. 14, they end mediation.
6 days later @shandro screws the @Albertadoctors
"Just 6 days later, Shandro terminated the AMA agreement (using the authority granted to him through the passing of Bill 21) effective 1 April 2020."
6 days later @shandro screws the @Albertadoctors
"Just 6 days later, Shandro terminated the AMA agreement (using the authority granted to him through the passing of Bill 21) effective 1 April 2020."
@shandro didn't even have the courtesy to inform the @Albertadoctors
I mean who does this sort of disrespectful arrogant stuff?
"He never communicated that termination to the AMA; they discovered it through reading it in news coverage the following day."
I mean who does this sort of disrespectful arrogant stuff?
"He never communicated that termination to the AMA; they discovered it through reading it in news coverage the following day."
So @shandro rips up the contract with @Albertadoctors like the prima donna he's appears to be. But nope it's not about prima donna stuff. It's a preemptive strike to avoid arbitration which no doubt was the entire purpose of Bill 21. Arbitration may have favoured MDs not UCP.
"Under the now-terminated agreement, the AMA would’ve been entitled to seek arbitration, effective 29 February, just 9 days after Shandro cancelled the contract. And that’s after the AMA had moved the date to file for arbitration from its original date of 11 February." @shandro
So forced into this corner by @shandro the @Albertadoctors have to go to court. Lawsuits take time which buys @Alberta_UCP time to spin their own story and such like and mollify their constituents. But unfortunately a pandemic happened and now we're all freaked out and love HCWs.
Lawsuits of this nature can be settled and generally are. I am curious if the @shandro guy will fold or not. I am also curious if @Albertadoctors who have been disparaged as money hungry professionals by their boss will refuse to settle. I imagine this will take ages to get done.
Meanwhile @shandro @GoAHealth @Alberta_UCP have farted around with the pandemic so we have community spread and still no testing of asymptomatic contacts of positive cases. @AHS_media @dryiu_verna
I am curious how this will all end. In any case, it's bad timing by the Shandro.
I am curious how this will all end. In any case, it's bad timing by the Shandro.
One good thing is that @Albertadoctors are brighter than @Alberta_UCP folks. They also have good legal advice and can pay for lawyers. They know they have to join up with every other group and they will communicate effectively. We also love our MDs and don't love UCP.
