Wed Dec 14, 2022 – 7:47 pm EST
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – The conservative government of Alberta under Premier Danielle Smith warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, through a legislative motion, that it will not tolerate the federal government trying to invalidate any of its provincial laws.
“Be it resolved that the Legislative Assembly express its opposition to any action taken by the Government of Canada to disallow a law passed by the Legislative Assembly,” reads a motion put forth Wednesday in the Alberta Legislature by house leader Joseph Schow.
The motion comes after the Smith government passed its “Sovereignty Act” legislation despite leftist pushback from the opposition NDP under former premier Rachel Notley as well as Trudeau.
Notley had called upon Trudeau to possibly use federal powers called “disallowance” to stop Smith’s Sovereignty Act from passing. This move was blasted by the Smith government.
The use of disallowance by the federal government has not happened since the early 1940s, and its legality has been questioned by constitutional scholars. For Trudeau to use it against Alberta would trigger a constitutional crisis.
Trudeau said Smith’s Sovereignty Act is a political “tool” being used to pick a “fight” with
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