Opinion: Observers had long suspected Alberta’s Sovereignty Act, once unveiled, would look like a dog’s breakfast.
Cabinet will be able to ride roughshod over the legislative assembly in ways never seen before in Alberta. And that’s saying something for a province that was governed by a Progressive Conservative dynasty for 44 years.
The Sovereignty Act is Smith’s version of freedom: attack institutions, policies and programs she doesn’t like. Observers thought Smith might issue a watered-down Sovereignty Act on Tuesday to show she is pivoting from her extreme views expressed during the five-month-long UCP leadership race.And they’re not just stomping on legislative democracy.
On Monday, Smith admitted she called up organizers of the international Arctic Winter Games, soon to be held in northern Alberta, to convince them to drop their vaccine mandate. Smith’s argument was no doubt made all the more convincing when she reminded the organizers the Games were getting $1.2 million in funding from the Alberta government. The Games quickly announced they were dropping a mandate that had been in place to protect the health of the athletes.
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