Nothing is off the table when it comes to responding to newly proposed legislation that would give Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government “exceptional powers,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
Published Wednesday, November 30, 2022 2:54PM ESTthat would give Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government “exceptional powers,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.
“I'm also not looking for a fight,” he added. “We want to continue to be there to deliver for Albertans.” “We know that the exceptional powers that the premier is choosing to give the Alberta government in bypassing the Alberta legislature is causing a lot of eyebrows to raise in Alberta,” Trudeau said Wednesday. “We're going to see how this plays out.”
“I don't think that this is appropriate for a province to determine whether or not a federal law exceeds its constitutionality. That is for a court,” he told reporters.Smith's vision for Alberta has drawn comparisons to Quebec, which administers its own provincial pension plan and immigration programs and - in many Albertans' minds, at least - appears to garner more jurisdictional respect from Ottawa when it wants to go its own way.
“I feel very strongly that as a Canadian, everybody should play in their lane, and playing in their lane means that legislatures don't determine whether something is constitutional from a different level of government,” he said. Garnett Genuis, another MP from the province, said the best way to allay Albertans' frustrations with Ottawa is to replace Trudeau.
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