Inquiry into Alberta’s refusal to release records on Mraiche

Matthew Black penned a story April 30. (Here – paywall).

“The office of the information and privacy commissioner is opening an inquiry into the Alberta government’s refusal to share documents related to a 2024 land deal involving health care entrepreneur Sam Mraiche, in response to a freedom of information request from Postmedia.” “The request was filed in February of last year and sought records related to the June 2024 purchase of a 26,000-square-foot property at 144 Street and 124 Avenue …”

A numbered company led by MHCare’s Sam Mraiche net a $300k profit after flipping a west Edmonton parcel of land to the Alberta government 3 months after buying it.

The 26,000-square-foot commercial property at 14425 124 Ave was purchased for $1.7m from J.K. May Investments on June 4, 2024 by Mraiche’s numbered company. 2262576 Alberta Ltd. is listed as a voting shareholder in four corporations created by the founders of the Alberta Surgical Group. It flipped the property to the provincial government for $2m on August 29.

Alberta Infrastructure declined to release the records of the steal, saying the deals were also under investigation by the province’s office of the auditor general, and citing a section of the Freedom of Information Act that exempts disclosure of records that are in the custody of an officer of the legislature. That full-on bullshit was called out … the auditor general’s investigation into the deals didn’t begin until August, six months after the request had been filed.

On April 14, information and privacy commissioner Diane McLeod wrote to Postmedia and Alberta Infrastructure to inform them that her office is opening an inquiry into the government not following its own information laws in withholding the documents.

The timing of this story is amazingly relevant today after 3.9m Albertans voter information was stolen by criminals yesterday. In an aside to that offense, Elections Alberta received, and unilaterally dismissed, a complaint about the massive data theft 30 days before finally ‘doing’ something about it. The first response of Elections Alberta was 100% zero. That has changed.

Criminal loser David Parker.

“Again, the Office of the Chief Electoral Officer considers this matter with the utmost seriousness and additional actions will follow.”

The Dani Panama peon in charge of Infrastructure Alberta and instantly assumed to be another fukkin crook of hers is Martin Long.

(West.Yellowhead@assembly.ab.ca)

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