Shannon Phillips was surveilled without cause by local police officers in her riding, with zero consequences
For most of the country, this week’s announcement by Alberta NDP MLA Shannon Phillips that she is leaving politics passed with little notice.
She was a very good environment minister in the one-term NDP government of Rachel Notley. In her spare time, she would take out her frustrations on a roller derby oval, participating under theGnome Stompsky, in homage to the social critic Noam Chomsky. As environment minister, it was her proposal to protect more provincial parkland near her Lethbridge riding that irked some members of the local police force.
Think about that. It doesn’t matter if you live in Markham, Ont., or Peggys Cove, N.S., or Pouce Coupe, B.C., this is something all of us should be angry about, that this can happen in this country. I accept that politicians are, at least partially, responsible for the degradation of public life that we are witnessing. To pretend we have not imported some of the vile politics on display in the United States is to be grossly ignorant of reality. The lack of decorum in the House of Commons is worse than it’s ever been and no one cares. Proceedings are ruled over by a Speaker who many don’t respect and some are aggressively trying to get rid of.
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