Alberta, Quebec united to push back against feds: Smith
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said said her province and Quebec are frustrated with a federal government that wants to impose its will on provinces.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Monday that her province and Quebec are united in their desire to resist federal overreach, as she pushed for closer economic ties between the provinces.
Speaking ahead of a speech to a business group in Montreal, Smith said Alberta and Quebec are frustrated with a federal government that wants to “impose its will” on provinces. “We have to get back to operating the country the way it was intended, we have exclusive areas of provincial jurisdiction,” she said.
“The provinces respect the federal areas of jurisdiction; the federal government doesn’t respect ours.”
As an example Smith used Ottawa’s decision to ask the Supreme Court to set limits on how Quebec and other provinces can invoke the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause. Smith says she supports Quebec’s pre-emptive use of that clause in its secularism law to shield the legislation from some Charter challenges.
Smith plans to invoke the clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, according to a leaked government memo obtained by The Canadian Press last month.
Smith is on an eastward swing through Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto, where she’s looking to drum up support for resource development, including an oil pipeline to the northern B.C. coast. She was set to meet later Monday with Prime Minister Mark Carney, and said she planned to urge him to take action to show that “Canada is open for business.”
“It’s their job to build ports and rail infrastructure, it’s their job to build cross-border pipelines, and I think it’s the prime minister’s job to show some courage in showing leadership on this,” she said.
“We’re not going to be a G7 leader and we’re not going to be an energy superpower without the federal government making some decisions to build things again.”
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