Juno News - Alberta stands up to feds, passes Sovereignty Act

00:00:00.000 hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emanuel i'm sorry i missed

00:00:14.160 last week's show i know you guys miss me but i was overseas doing some very important work

00:00:18.960 now we have a lot to catch up on so let's jump into today's topics the alberta legislature has

00:00:24.400 approved the sovereignty act the united conservative party is pulling ahead of the

00:00:28.800 ndp in recent polling the premier has secured tylenol for kids and daniel smith skips rachel

00:00:35.480 not least portrait unveiling all that and more happening now on the alberta roundup okay guys

00:00:40.440 up first alberta premier daniel smith's sovereignty act passed through the alberta legislature in the

00:00:44.980 early hours of the morning on thursday it was just 10 days after it was tabled it feels like we've

00:00:50.600 been talking about the sovereignty act for months well because we have daniel smith first pitched a

00:00:55.600 sovereignty act during the united conservative party leadership race as a means to bar federal

00:00:59.860 legislation deemed harmful to alberta and its interest she said in fact a sovereignty act would

00:01:04.740 be her first bill as premier if elected so this is a big deal for her having made good on that promise

00:01:10.720 the united conservative party majority government passed motions at the final three stages of the

00:01:15.820 bill to limit debate and quicken the bill's passage in its final form bill one or the alberta

00:01:21.020 sovereignty within the united canada act was stripped of a provision which would have granted

00:01:25.360 smith's cabinet the power to rewrite laws outside the legislative process following criticism the

00:01:31.260 government put forward amendments to remove those powers but the premier wouldn't say whether the

00:01:36.040 original wording was intentional the house then moved into third reading and the bill was approved

00:01:40.880 around 1 a.m mountain time on thursday morning the final vote was 27 4 and 7 against with

00:01:47.160 opposition ndp mlas voting against the legislation the ndp also voted against the amendment and the

00:01:53.500 bill at all three readings it's also worth noting the ndp didn't offer any amendments to bill one

00:01:58.600 but before its passage ndp leader rachel notley hosted a press conference on wednesday with former

00:02:03.960 bank of canada governor david dodge to convince premier smith that her flagship bill would chase away

00:02:09.180 investment in the province here's what dodge had to say unfortunately it seems to me that even proposing

00:02:16.880 the sovereignty act creates a climate of uncertainty which makes it less attractive to and for investors

00:02:25.480 to participate in the building of such a platform for growth whatever its final form the act is a signal

00:02:34.340 to the world that we don't quite know what we're doing that we can't quite get the fundamental stuff

00:02:40.580 right that press conference didn't go over very well with the premier take a listen to her exchange

00:02:45.620 with notley in the legislature this week mr speaker today i stood with the former governor of the bank

00:02:50.340 of canada mr david dodge mr dodge very articulately impressed upon albertans how the premier's sovereignty act

00:02:57.060 amended or not will harm our economy so let me get this straight we have a liberal appointee to the

00:03:04.100 bank of canada who is not even from alberta who didn't read the bill who didn't read the amendments

00:03:12.740 and quite frankly the bank of canada increased interest rates 0.5 again today which actually has

00:03:18.100 a dampening effect on investment coming to alberta to tell us how to run our affairs you know i'm

00:03:26.020 wondering who this opposition leader is going to have at her next press conference maybe she should

00:03:30.340 just invite justin trudeau polling from the angus reed institute has previously found that a majority

00:03:35.620 of albertans don't support the alberta sovereignty act which danielle smith says she hopes she never

00:03:40.740 has to use speaking of angus reed polling daniel smith has the approval of 42 percent of albertans

00:03:46.500 she placed six out of canada's premiers ahead of ontario premier doug ford and behind bc premier

00:03:51.780 david ebbe under smith's leadership the ucp is also pulling ahead of the ndp for the first time since

00:03:57.300 september according to a main street research poll the united conservative party is leading by two

00:04:02.500 points and an angus reed poll shows the ucp leading by four points alberta premier danielle smith says

00:04:09.060 shelves will soon be restocked with children's pain medication after reaching a tentative deal with the

00:04:14.020 turkish manufacturer to supply five million bottles of acetaminophen and ibuprofen the deal with adobe

00:04:20.580 pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals is still subject to approval from health canada but provincial

00:04:25.620 officers are confident the supplier will be green lighted to ship medications to alberta in the

00:04:29.620 coming weeks shelves across canada have been stripped bare of the fever reducing medications

00:04:35.540 with pharmacists keeping supplies behind the counter to prevent stockpiling take a listen to

00:04:40.820 what the premier had to say about it earlier this week right now your government is working with

00:04:44.500 alberta health services and health canada on the details and logistics to import this medicine

00:04:51.060 and you can feel confident that we are all moving as quickly as we can so that alberta families can

00:04:56.260 get what they need and and it will be available at your local pharmacy in short order once it arrives

00:05:02.980 i know there's still more work to do and i want you to know that your government is listening i truly

00:05:07.540 hope that this new supply will provide a little bit more comfort and relief to our families i'd now

00:05:12.660 like to invite minister copying to provide you with some of the details now it seems for some people the

00:05:18.420 glass is always half empty there is a fair number of criticism to this announcement one twitter user

00:05:24.100 says the bottles won't address the systemic failures of the ucp under both kenny and now smith

00:05:30.260 another user called it a band-aid solution and still another says the bottles will alleviate a few

00:05:36.020 symptoms of a viral infection but not complications from the trifecta viruses impacting children

00:05:42.100 while i'm sure parents of sick kids are very relieved to hear about the announcement

00:05:45.940 another big story coming out of alberta this week this one is from the cbc's janet french

00:05:50.420 a new code of conduct for alberta teachers requires them to report to authorities any colleague who

00:05:55.140 harms or abuses a student the new code which will apply to all the province's 53 000 teachers as of

00:06:01.060 january 1 could see teachers who conceal their colleagues abusive behavior also be charged with

00:06:06.100 unprofessional conduct this seems like a very positive step to me what do you guys think

00:06:10.340 moving into the controversy of the week premier smith skipped ndp leader rachel snotley portrait

00:06:16.180 unveiling at the alberta legislature earlier this week shortly before 11 a.m on thursday word came

00:06:21.860 that smith wouldn't attend she sent nathan newdorf one of her deputy premiers in a statement smith's

00:06:27.860 office said premier smith had hoped to attend rachel notley's portrait unveiling ceremony however

00:06:32.820 she attended an important meeting with the key task he now tribal council and a caucus meeting deputy

00:06:38.740 premier nathan newdorf joined the unveiling ceremony in her place the calgary herald's don braid

00:06:43.700 says premiers always pay the respect for past premiers at these affairs notley in fact did herself

00:06:49.140 three times when she was the premier unveiling portraits of former pc premieres allison redford

00:06:53.860 dave hancock and jim prentice okay guys what we're watching in the weeks to come this is not

00:06:58.340 an alberta specific story it is a national story but i have been keeping you guys updated with

00:07:02.420 it and i promise that i would keep you in the loop about recent updates you guys know that

00:07:06.020 the liberals tried to sneak in a last minute amendment to bill c21 to further restrict

00:07:10.660 access to semi-automatic shotguns and rifles including those primarily used by hunters farmers

00:07:16.180 and sport shooters during question period on thursday several ndpmp stood up and announced

00:07:21.780 the government's move ndpmp taylor backrack said people feel hoodwinked by the last minute amendment

00:07:27.380 as the government goes after the tools his neighbors use for hunting predator control and backcountry safety

00:07:33.380 when is the prime minister going to realize the mistake he's made fix this mess and back up the

00:07:37.620 bus meanwhile ndpmp alistair mcgregor also had some choice words for the liberal government

00:07:42.980 and we'll play those for you now mr speaker the government's proposed amendment to c21 has become

00:07:49.540 a textbook case on what not to do this change was brought in at the 11th hour with no consultation

00:07:57.060 and no testimony it has distracted from the original purpose of the bill and it hurts rural

00:08:02.340 communities hunters farmers and indigenous communities are outraged that some of the

00:08:07.780 rifles and shotguns that they used to provide for their families could be banned the minister of

00:08:12.900 public safety blindsided canadians when he made this mess how is he going to fix it

00:08:19.300 but not everyone was so impressed conservative mp dane lloyd said it's about time the ndp

00:08:24.180 join the official opposition in standing up for firearms owners okay guys and ending on a light

00:08:28.900 noted topic for you here the official last of us trailer is here the last of us is an upcoming hbo

00:08:34.980 american post-apocalyptic drama television series it's based on the 2013 video game and the series

00:08:42.020 follows a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenager across the post-apocalyptic united states

00:08:47.380 but why are we talking about this well the series said to be the largest television production

00:08:51.860 in canadian history was filmed in alberta from july 2021 to june 2022 definitely take a look at the

00:08:58.500 trailer and see which alberta landmarks you can find okay guys that's all i have for you today thank you

00:09:03.300 so much for tuning in if you're so inclined please visit donate.tnc.news to show us your support

00:09:08.420 i'll see you next week and god bless

Juno News - December 10, 2022

Alberta stands up to feds, passes Sovereignty Act

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