Alberta legislature votes to remove sweeping powers for premier and cabinet in sovereignty bill
NDP finance critic Shannon Phillips said while the bill is aimed at Ottawa it is actually a Trojan Horse attack on Albertans themselves by a government that can’t see past grievance politics and its own internal dramas to do the basic yet necessary work of providing proper health care, education and social services.
Earlier Wednesday in Ottawa, First Nations chiefs from Alberta and Saskatchewan called for both provinces to scrap their respective provincial rights bills, calling them inherently undemocratic, unconstitutional and an infringement on Indigenous rights.
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