Alberta doesn\u0027t need its own emergencies act to declare law by fiat
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.
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