The contest to replace Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is becoming a race to the bottom. It’s one that could damage Alberta’s relations with the rest of the country — if it doesn’t spark a full-blown constitutional crisis. Opinion by gthomsonink
The contest to replace Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is becoming a race to the bottom.
Smith is promising to introduce an Alberta Sovereignty Act that she says would allow her to nullify federal laws and rules she doesn’t like when she becomes premier.Several of her competitors are scrambling to do the same — with similar tactics. Not wanting to be left out of the sabre-rattling contest, former finance minister Travis Toews has his own fight-back policy “against Ottawa’s targeted attacks.”
But that’s where we’re at in Alberta’s UCP leadership race, where logic, convention and common sense have been tossed so far out the window you’d need a search-and-rescue helicopter to find them. She is whipping up anger at all kinds of perceived enemies, whether that be Alberta Health Services for pandemic-related mandates or Justin Trudeau’s price on carbon. In her highly partisan and flawed narrative, Quebec-loving Trudeau has killed every pipeline deal while doing his best to strangle Alberta’s oilsands industry.
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