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EDMONTON — The top adviser to incoming Alberta premier Danielle Smith says her proposed sovereignty act would respect Supreme Court decisions – a reversal of her core policy promise on how she would challenge Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
Smith’s spokesman Jonah Mozeson, responding to an email request for comment Monday, declined to answer specific queries about Anderson’s statement. The act as proposed by Smith would allow the province to refuse to follow federal laws and court rulings it deemed to be not in Alberta’s best interests and an illegal intrusion into its duly delegated spheres of influence under the Constitution.
It was denounced by five of Smith's six leadership rivals, and by Kenney, as a profoundly illegal and dangerous plan doomed to ignite economic chaos as Albertans, investors and businesses wouldn’t know which laws they were to follow. “All of the sovereignty act, as it has been currently described, could only work if the premier and the legislature were prepared to ignore the courts. That’s been very clear. That’s why everybody was so alarmed,” said Olszynski in interview.“But if suddenly now the premier-designate and her office are prepared to say, 'of course we're bound by the courts,' then the sovereignty act goes nowhere.
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