Alberta changing sovereignty bill to reverse provision giving cabinet unchecked power
“If we caused some confusion by some awkward wording, then let’s clean it up and then be able to talk about the bigger issues,” Premier Danielle Smith said in the midst of her major legislative flame out!
Political scientist Duane Bratt said it’s a positive step for the bill to be amended to remove the sweeping powers to cabinet.
But Bratt said the change is not a tweak, the bill has become a confusing mess, Smith did not seem to understand the legislation she was introducing, and the entire affair raises larger questions about Smith’s competence in the top job.
“How did this get in the bill in the first place?” said Bratt, who teaches at Calgary’s Mount Royal University.
“Wouldn’t they have read it? Wouldn’t they have noticed this? This is damaging to have to backtrack. These are major reversals on her signature piece of legislation. (No matter) whoever wrote it, at the end of the day her name is attached to it. She’s the one who introduced the bill. She has to wear this.”
Source : Canadian Press Dec 2/22
Court Painter flanked by glowing portraits of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith