Mon Sep 12, 2022 – 6:11 pm EDTMon Sep 12, 2022 – 8:53 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –Brian Peckford, the last living politician who helped create Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms, put his support behind a proposed law by Alberta leadership candidate Danielle Smith that would target federal government overreach, including the imposition of child vaccine mandates.
Peckford wrote in a recent blog that Smith’s “Sovereignty Act” is like a “bargaining chip” the province can use to ensure Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government cannot impose on Albertans new draconian mandates.
“Alberta feels particularly aggrieved in that its oil and gas resources, which are under the Province, have resulted in huge revenues to the Province and there has over time been an imbalance in how much Alberta pays into the Federal Government and how much it gets back,” Peckford wrote.
“Danielle Smith’ s proposed Sovereignty Act I see as the manifestation of this frustration.”
Peckford continued, saying that short of “invoking the Clarity Act involving a process of separation from Canada,” Alberta must put on its “bargaining shoes and with the other Provinces and the Federal Government come up with a new more flexible agreement for
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