Alberta NDP justice critic Irfan Sabir says independent inquiry is needed to investigate Premier Danielle Smith’s conversation with accused in COVID cases
Alberta’s Opposition NDP is calling on Premier Danielle Smith to divulge all her conversations relating to COVID-19 court cases after she acknowledged having contact with an accused before his trial relating to a blockade at a U.S.-Canada border crossing.
Pawlowski went on trial earlier this month on charges of breaching a release order and mischief for allegedly inciting people to block public property at Coutts, Alta., the province’s main U.S. border crossing, in January 2022. He is also charged under the Alberta Critical Infrastructure Defence Act with wilfully damaging or destroying essential infrastructure.
Smith’s office did not immediately give answers to questions on who the premier talked to while leader of the United Conservative Party government. Her office has also not said whether she disclosed her contact with Pawlowski to Crown prosecutors. On Thursday, in response to questions from reporters, Smith said she spoke to Pawlowski earlier this year but only to let him know she could not help him.
Last year, several people linked to the Coutts blockade were charged after RCMP found a cache of long guns, handguns, body armour, large amounts of ammunition and high-capacity magazines in three trailers. Four men were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. She initially said she talked to prosecutors, then clarified that she only talked to Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and the Justice Department’s top civil servant, Frank Bosscha, chalking the confusion up to “imprecise” word choice.
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