ICYMI: Premier Danielle Smith's dictatorial, unworkable sovereignty act may be the worst legislation in Alberta history, writes DonBraid yyc UCP abpoli ableg
Everybody involved is appalled that this is happening.
The UCP, in its late-pandemic denialism, has not publicly raised a genuine system breakdown to anything like the level it deserves. The sovereignty act before the legislature has three massive problems; it’s genuinely dictatorial, too broad in scope, and completely impractical. The federal government recently used the tactic in its bill on greenhouse gas pricing. Alberta opposed it vigorously in the Supreme Court.
That’s the state of the bill still before the legislature. But government MLAs, already alarmed, have heard powerful negative feedback.They say one will ensure that any change to law will have to go back to the legislature for full debate and three readings before passage.Article contentSecond, the sovereignty act is ludicrously wide-ranging.
Together, the amendments would take two of the sharpest corners off the bill. But they aren’t introduced yet.
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