Alberta's rural municipalities are teeing off on a trilogy of provincial bills they say erode trust and attack local authority.
WATCH: Small towns across Alberta worry they will soon have extra costs forced upon them, such as upgrading audio and visual systems to support online streaming, because of Bill 20 legislating virtual meetings for council business. Breanna Karstens-Smith spoke with officials from Duchess and Calmar about it.Alberta’s rural municipalities are teeing off on a trilogy of provincial bills they say erode trust and attack local authority.
Despite assurances from the government that the bills maintain the status quo, McLauchlin said he’s “starting to get paranoid.” Last week, Municipal Affairs Minister Ric McIver, a former three-term councillor in Calgary, also rejected the suggestion the bills are an overreach.“Not only our reach, it is our responsibility. They may not like the bills, I accept that, but using the phrase ‘overreach’ seems inappropriate.”“We’re being put into a smaller and smaller box and the government is taking more and more authority away from us, which makes no sense based upon our past relationship with this government,” he said.
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