Tue Jan 17, 2023 – 3:05 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Premier of Alberta Danielle Smith has asked her senior justice minister to reflect if it is in the “public interest” to uphold charges against people who violated COVID-19 regulations.
In speaking with reporters last Thursday, Smith said Alberta’s courts are “independent” bodies that make their own decisions; nevertheless, she has asked Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and his deputy minister to consider charges under the “lens” of the likelihood of conviction.
“I have asked them to consider all charges under the lens of: ‘Is it in the public interest to pursue, and is there a reasonable likelihood of conviction?’ As we continue to see some of these cases go through, some of them get dropped, some of them fail, they have to consistently recalibrate,” said Smith.
She added that she asked Shandro and his team to ponder on a “regular basis, as new cases come out, is it in the public interest to pursue, and is there a reasonable likelihood of conviction.”
Smith made headlines last October after promising she to look at look at pardoning Christian pastors who were jailed for violating so-called COVID policies while
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