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Hmm. Curious.

I remember being a little surprised by the NDP’s over-the-top reaction to allegations levelled against the UCP government by former Alberta Health Services (AHS) CEO, Athana Mentzelopoulos, in a lawsuit she brought against the government back in February.

Mentzelopoulos’s allegations were serious but unproven. She claimed she was wrongfully dismissed by the government of Premier Danielle Smith earlier this year because she was about to investigate the possibility that UCP politicians and government officials were engaged in wide-ranging corruption, including overpaying for surgeries in private surgical clinics and paying full price ($75 million), upfront, for millions of bottles of Turkish Tylenol during the 2022 North American shortage of painkillers, especially for children.

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New Democratic Leader Naheed Nenshi immediately went ballistic. Based on nothing more than sensational claims levelled by one side in a contentious lawsuit, Nenshi insisted Mentzelopoulos’s assertions were “the most shocking allegations that I have ever seen.”

Within two days of the Globe and Mail publishing Mentzelopoulos’s claim, Nenshi was demanding Premier Smith step down before there had been any kind of investigation.