Colby Cosh: Danielle Smith's unnecessary political power grab

If I’m right about the broad strokes here, we are now at the point in this Heinlein Crazy Years tale wherein the province of Alberta passes its own slightly loopy emergency legislation as a countermeasure against the dangerously authoritarian feds.

What does all this mean in English? The Alberta legislature is exercising its undoubted sovereign power to let the executive run wild, with advance procedural permission, if it wants; that’s democracy for you, appearing on stage in its traditional garb of parliamentary supremacy. But why should any of this be necessary when the legislature could simply, you know,Recommended from EditorialThis seems like a pure political power grab by Alberta’s new premier.

I don’t quite take Danielle Smith at her word when she says she hopes never to have to use these “Alberta Sovereignty Act” powers; I think she will be quite alert, quite alert indeed, to opportunities for confrontation with Ottawa. With that said, Bill 1 is going to pass, even though that Alberta United Conservative caucus is full of MLAs who will be privately embarrassed about it, given their own prior rhetoric against emergency legislation and extra-parliamentary rule by fiat.

Whatever Smith really thinks, I for one do hope her Sovereignty Act is never invoked. More to the point, I hope politicians at the provincialfederal levels realize that what is needed is a cooling-off of the political temperature rather than ceaseless opportunistic dumbass escalation.

Could someone remind me who ‘Colby Cosh’ is!

Cowtown Harold is going full attack mode on Danielle Smith for demanding Alberta control their own future within confederation

This is tiresome

This newspaper sucks.

Ore BS.. by the fake new media!

Seems to have worked out pretty well for Quebec but go on...

Lack of judgement has plagued the UCP since inception. Penny-stock volatility for t-bill returns.

Massive Government over reach

Fake news.

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Danielle Smith declares war on the rule of lawNow that Bill 1 is tabled in the Alberta legislature, the question is which will die first: Danielle Smith's government or the province's rule of law, writes columnist Max Fawcett. maxfawcett Typical from Mark Fawcett. The rule of law is something Trudeau ignored in the invocation of emergencies act making up, in camera, new definitions for the application of the Act. Not a bloody word from Fawcett maxfawcett Smith's war on federal law is peanuts compared to Trudeau's war on Alberta's oil. maxfawcett Mad max swallows?
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Jason Kenney resigns after Danielle Smith introduces her sovereignty actJason Kenney resigns after Danielle Smith introduces her sovereignty act. The former Alberta premier and federal cabinet minister under Stephen Harper was a loud critic of proposed legislation after he stepped down as party leader. Although it requires scraping the absolute bottom of the bottom of barrel, it’s good to see some conservatives actually have a shred of integrity Who ever thought there was someone worse than Kenney and there really is.🤷‍♀️ He's embarrassed about his offspring... it's like that moment in the horror film Rosemary's Baby when the guy says 'He has his father's eyes!'
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