The Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux - December 10, 2022


Alberta stands up to feds, passes Sovereignty Act

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Sovereignty Act passed NDP denounces Liberal amendment
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Isaac Lamoureux
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Danielle Smith Rachel Notley David Dodge Nathan Newdorf Angus Reid Speaker Alistair McGregor Taylor Bacharach Rachel Emanuel Justin Trudeau Rachel Snotley Alison Redford Janet French Dave Hancock Jim Prentice Dawn Braid Dane Lloyd David Eby Bill C-63 Kenny
Alberta tells Ottawa to fire RCMP Commissioner Lucki Alberta opposes Ottawa’s firearm protocol

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The Alberta government has approved the sovereignty act, the United Conservative Party is pulling ahead of the NDP in recent polling, the Premier has secured Tylenol for kids, and Danielle Smith skips Rachel Notley s portrait unveiling. All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.

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00:00:26.640 Hey everyone, welcome back to the Alberta Roundup.
00:00:28.640 I'm your host, Rachel Emanuel.
00:00:30.240 I'm sorry I missed last week's show.
00:00:31.920 I know you guys miss me, but I was overseas doing some very important work.
00:00:36.320 Now we have a lot to catch up on, so let's jump into today's topics.
00:00:40.000 The Alberta legislature has approved the Sovereignty Act.
00:00:43.280 The United Conservative Party is pulling ahead of the NDP in recent polling.
00:00:47.920 The Premier has secured Tylenol for kids.
00:00:50.480 And Danielle Smith skips Rachel Notley's portrait unveiling.
00:00:54.080 All that and more happening now on the Alberta Roundup.
00:00:56.800 Okay guys, up first.
00:00:57.920 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's Sovereignty Act passed through the Alberta legislature
00:01:01.520 in the early hours of the morning on Thursday.
00:01:04.000 It was just 10 days after it was tabled.
00:01:06.560 It feels like we've been talking about the Sovereignty Act for months.
00:01:09.280 Well, because we have.
00:01:10.880 Danielle Smith first pitched a Sovereignty Act during the United Conservative Party leadership race 0.93
00:01:15.360 as a means to bar federal legislation deemed harmful to Alberta and its interest.
00:01:19.360 She said, in fact, a Sovereignty Act would be her first bill as Premier if elected.
00:01:24.240 So this is a big deal for her having made good on that promise.
00:01:27.520 Some say the bubbles in an arrow truffle piece can take 34 seconds to melt in your mouth.
00:01:32.560 Sometimes the very amount you're stuck at the same red light.
00:01:35.680 Rich, creamy, chocolatey arrow truffle.
00:01:39.120 Feel the arrow bubbles melt.
00:01:41.200 It's mind bubbling.
00:01:42.560 The United Conservative Party majority government passed motions at the final three stages of the
00:01:47.680 bill to limit debate and quicken the bill's passage.
00:01:50.240 In its final form, Bill 1, or the Alberta Sovereignty within the United Canada Act,
00:01:55.200 was stripped of a provision which would have granted Smith's cabinet the power
00:01:58.880 to rewrite laws outside the legislative process.
00:02:02.160 Following criticism, the government put forward amendments to remove those powers.
00:02:06.240 But the Premier wouldn't say whether the original wording was intentional.
00:02:09.600 The House then moved into third reading and the bill was approved around 1am Mountain Time
00:02:14.240 on Thursday morning.
00:02:16.000 The final vote was 27-4 and 7 against, with opposition NDP MLAs voting against the legislation.
00:02:23.040 The NDP also voted against the amendment and the bill at all three readings.
00:02:27.120 It's also worth noting the NDP didn't offer any amendments to Bill 1.
00:02:30.880 But before its passage, NDP leader Rachel Notley hosted a press conference on Wednesday
00:02:35.360 with former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge to convince Premier Smith
00:02:39.280 that her flagship bill would chase away investment in the province.
00:02:42.880 Here's what Dodge had to say.
00:02:44.800 Unfortunately, it seems to me that even proposing the Sovereignty Act
00:02:50.560 creates a climate of uncertainty which makes it less attractive for investors to participate
00:02:59.040 in the building of such a platform for growth.
00:03:02.560 Whatever its final form, the Act is a signal to the world that we don't quite know what we're doing,
00:03:09.760 that we can't quite get the fundamental stuff right.
00:03:13.440 That press conference didn't go over very well with the Premier.
00:03:16.400 Take a listen to her exchange with Notley in the Legislature this week.
00:03:19.440 Mr. Speaker, today I stood with the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, Mr. David Dodge.
00:03:24.240 Mr. Dodge, very articulately, impressed upon Albertans how the Premier's Sovereignty Act,
00:03:29.120 amended or not, will harm our economy.
00:03:32.480 So let me get this straight. We have a Liberal appointee to the Bank of Canada,
00:03:37.600 who is not even from Alberta, who didn't read the bill,
00:03:42.400 who didn't read the amendments, and quite frankly, the Bank of Canada increased interest rates 0.5% again today,
00:03:49.440 which actually has a dampening effect on investment, coming to Alberta to tell us how to run our affairs.
00:03:57.200 You know, I'm wondering who this opposition leader is going to have at her next press conference.
00:04:01.760 Maybe she should just invite Justin Trudeau.
00:04:03.760 Yeah, yeah.
00:04:04.560 Polling from the Angus Reid Institute has previously found that a majority of Albertans
00:04:08.240 don't support the Alberta Sovereignty Act, which Danielle Smith says she hopes she never has to use.
00:04:13.840 Speaking of Angus Reid polling,
00:04:15.280 Danielle Smith has the approval of 42% of Albertans. She placed six out of Canada's Premiers,
00:04:20.720 ahead of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and behind BC Premier David Eby.
00:04:25.120 Under Smith's leadership, the UCP is also polling ahead of the NDP for the first time since September.
00:04:30.640 According to a Main Street research poll, the United Conservative Party is leading by two points,
00:04:35.360 and an Angus Reid poll shows the UCP leading by four points.
00:04:39.440 Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says shelves will soon be restocked with children's pain medication,
00:04:44.240 after reaching a tentative deal with a Turkish manufacturer to supply five million bottles
00:04:48.880 of acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
00:04:51.520 The deal with Adabane Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals is still subject to approval from Health Canada,
00:04:56.960 but provincial officers are confident the supplier will be green lighted to ship medications to Alberta
00:05:01.440 in the coming weeks.
00:05:03.360 Shelves across Canada have been stripped bare of the fever reducing medications,
00:05:07.600 with pharmacists keeping supplies behind the counter to prevent stockpiling.
00:05:11.040 Take a listen to what the Premier had to say about it earlier this week.
00:05:14.880 Right now, your government is working with Alberta Health Services and Health Canada on
00:05:19.440 the details and logistics to import this medicine. And you can feel confident that we are all moving
00:05:25.600 as quickly as we can, so that Alberta families can get what they need. And it will be available at your
00:05:31.680 local pharmacy in short order once it arrives. I know there's still more work to do, and I want you
00:05:37.040 to know that your government is listening. I truly hope that this new supply will provide
00:05:41.200 a little bit more comfort and relief to our families. I'd now like to invite Minister Copping
00:05:46.400 to provide you with some of the details.
00:05:49.040 Now, it seems for some people the glass is always half empty. There is a fair number of
00:05:53.360 criticism to this announcement. One Twitter user says the bottles won't address the systemic failures
00:05:58.640 of the UCP under both Kenny and now Smith. Another user calls it a Band-Aid solution.
00:06:05.200 And still another says the bottles will alleviate a few symptoms of a viral infection,
00:06:10.000 but not complications from the trifecta of viruses impacting children.
00:06:14.160 Well, I'm sure parents of sick kids are very relieved to hear about the announcement.
00:06:18.000 Another big story coming out of Alberta this week, this one is from the CBC's Janet French.
00:06:22.480 A new code of conduct for Alberta teachers requires them to report to authorities any
00:06:26.640 colleague who harms or abuses a student. The new code, which will apply to all of the
00:06:30.320 province's 53,000 teachers as of January 1, could see teachers who conceal their colleagues abusive
00:06:36.480 behavior also be charged with unprofessional conduct. This seems like a very positive step to
00:06:41.280 me. What do you guys think? Moving into the controversy of the week. Premier Smith skipped
00:06:46.400 NDP leader Rachel Snotley portrait unveiling at the Alberta legislature earlier this week.
00:06:51.600 Shortly before 11 a.m. on Thursday, word came that Smith wouldn't attend.
00:06:55.920 She sent Nathan Newdorf, one of her deputy premiers. In a statement, Smith's office said,
00:07:00.480 Premier Smith had hoped to attend Rachel Notley's portrait unveiling ceremony.
00:07:04.320 However, she attended an important meeting with the Keytas Key Now Tribal Council
00:07:08.800 and a caucus meeting. Deputy Premier Nathan Newdorf joined the unveiling ceremony in her place.
00:07:14.080 The Calgary Herald's Dawn Braid says premiers always pay the respect for past premiers at these affairs.
00:07:19.120 Notley, in fact, did it herself three times when she was the premier unveiling portraits of former
00:07:23.920 PC premiers Alison Redford, Dave Hancock, and Jim Prentice. Okay guys, what we're watching in the
00:07:29.200 weeks to come, this is not an Alberta specific story, it is a national story, but I have been
00:07:33.280 keeping you guys updated with it and I promise that I would keep you in the loop about recent updates.
00:07:37.360 You guys know that the Liberals tried to sneak in a last-minute amendment to Bill C-21 to further
00:07:42.240 restrict access to semi-automatic shotguns and rifles, including those primarily used by hunters,
00:07:47.600 farmers, and sports shooters. During question period on Thursday, several NDP MPs stood up
00:07:53.200 and denounced the government's move. NDP MP Taylor Bacharach said people feel hoodwinked by
00:07:58.400 the last-minute amendment as the government goes after the tools his neighbors use for hunting,
00:08:02.400 predator control, and backcountry safety. When is the Prime Minister going to realize the mistake he's
00:08:07.600 made, fix this mess, and back up the bus? Meanwhile, NDP MP Alistair McGregor also had some choice words
00:08:14.080 for the Liberal government, and we'll play those for you now. Mr. Speaker, the government's proposed
00:08:19.520 amendment to C-21 has become a textbook case on what not to do. This change was brought in at the 11th
00:08:26.720 hour with no consultation and no testimony. It has distracted from the original purpose of the bill,
00:08:33.280 and it hurts rural communities. Hunters, farmers, and indigenous communities are outraged that some
00:08:39.600 of the rifles and shotguns that they used to provide for their families could be banned. The Minister of
00:08:44.960 Public Safety blindsided Canadians when he made this mess. How is he going to fix it?
00:08:51.360 But not everyone was so impressed. Conservative MP Dane Lloyd said it's about
00:08:55.280 time the NDP joined the official opposition in standing up for firearms owners. Okay guys,
00:09:00.000 I'm ending on a light noted topic for you here. The official Last of Us trailer is here.
00:09:04.880 The Last of Us is an upcoming HBO American post-apocalyptic drama television series.
00:09:10.640 It's based on the 2013 video game, and the series follows a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenager
00:09:16.480 across the post-apocalyptic United States. But why are we talking about this? Well, the series,
00:09:22.080 said to be the largest television production in Canadian history, was filmed in Alberta from July
00:09:27.040 2021 to June 2022. Definitely take a look at the trailer and see which Alberta landmarks you can find.
00:09:33.600 Okay guys, that's all I have for you today. Thank you so much for tuning in.
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00:09:40.480 I'll see you next week, and God bless.