For a province that could summarize its cultural zeitgeist in a single word – freedom – Alberta is home to some of the worst government transgressions against democracy during the COVID-19 crisis.
| First, Bill 10, which gave individual cabinet ministers new power to write laws on the fly, was rushed through the legislature in April; the whole process took little more than 48 hours. The hurried bill proposed creating new offences and penalties without any input from elected members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
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| Not all in this together Re WE Charity Offers Roles At Own Organization (July 2): We recently saw our Prime Minister take a knee and proclaim: “Over the past weeks, we’ve seen a large number of Canadians suddenly awaken to the fact that the discrimination that is a lived reality for far too many of our fellow citizens is something that needs to end.”
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