Danielle Smith leadership contender for UCP seen with pet prairie dog
However…
Alberta Lieutenant-Governor Salma Lakhani says her office would independently evaluate whether a proposed Alberta Sovereignty Act was constitutional before signing it into law.
Her remarks come as Danielle Smith, the perceived front-runner to become the next leader of the United Conservative Party and premier of Alberta, has proposed legislation permitting the province to refuse to enforce federal laws it believes are against Alberta’s best interests.
Lakhani said Thursday her constitutional role is the most important part of her job and that Alberta must follow the rule of law.
Source CBC News September 2,22
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani AOE, B.Sc., LLD (hon)
And now we have an UPDATE September 3 to throw into the mix that appeared in September 2 the HUB article by Howard Anglin who was previously Deputy Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Principal Secretary to the Premier of Alberta, Jason Kenney.
Howard Anglin: Alberta’s Lieutenant Governor is risking a perfect storm of unconstitutionality
You can’t correct an unconstitutional Act with an unconstitutional act
In a dispute between two governments, each sovereign in its own sphere, it is not for one of the two disputants—in this case the provincial legislature—to decide which is right.2 Instead it should fall to a third party to arbitrate the dispute, and in our constitutional system that is the judiciary.3 Both Smith’s plan and the Lieutenant Governor’s reaction misunderstand this—the first because she doesn’t like it, the second because she apparently doesn’t understand it.