Posted on 10/24/2022 11:41:04 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith became the first leader of a Canadian province to apologize for the way the unvaccinated were treated during the pandemic.
Beyond the apology, Smith also said she is working to pardon residents who were fined or arrested for breaking strict COVID-19 protocols.
"I'm deeply sorry for anyone who was inappropriately subjected to discrimination as a result of their vaccine status," she said at the United Conservative Party’s general meeting on Saturday. "I am deeply sorry for any government employee that was fired from their job because of their vaccine status, and I welcome them back if they want to come back."
Some of the people she was thinking about include pastors who were penalized for breaking lockdown rules.
"It was a political decision to throw out the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to put those fines in place in the first place, and I think it can be a political decision to make amends and apologize for it and eliminate them," Smith said.
"These are not things that are normal to get fines and get prosecuted for," she added. "So, I am going to look into the range of outstanding fines that there still are and to get some legal advice on which ones we are able to cancel and provide amnesty for."
Premier Smith said she was seriously considering granting a legal amnesty to any Albertans charged with lockdown offences — as in, dropping all the charges!
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The new premier of Alberta, Canada, is the first government in the world to formally apologize for violating the civil rights of unvaccinated people.
She offers them their jobs back & says she's considering dropping all lockdown prosecutions.
Kudos to her & our reporter! https://t.co/MA1Xs2e3cK— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) October 22, 2022
Last week, Smith, who was sworn in earlier this month, warned businesses that still have vaccine requirements in place that her government is “going to be making a serious pivot in that regard.”
“The Establishment” is already giving her a lot of flak
Smith replaced the COVID tyrant Fakeservative Jason Kenney as Premier about time.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a lie to placate the population. Every so-called right can be unconditinally ended with a single vote in Parliament.
Provincial premiers don’t have a lot of of power in Canada. Much less than any state government. Also, being uppity could result in Alberta losing billions in funding.
A great political campaign position here in the USA for any GOP candidate with balls would be similar: “I will force Fed.gov to apologize to anyone fired for the illegal vaccine mandate - AND I will support your right to SUE governments and corporations who imposed this injustice upon you.”
It’s a start.
Nice, but the rest of Canada is still under the fascist dictator.
Has no-balls Trudeau jailed her yet?
Provincial premiers don’t have a lot of of power in Canada. Much less than any state government.
The Premier of Ontario has more power both relatively and absolutely than any U.S. governor—Including California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Illinois—all of which have larger populations than Ontario.
There are no balances in Canada, and checks are something you find in hockey.
The provincial-federal split is in fact much more favourable to the provinces in Canada than it has become in the States to the States because Canada is too d@mn big to govern.
Take it from the Arrogant Worms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOM-TmZBzZo
Alberta already gives BILLIONS to Canaduh IN EXCESS of what Canaduh provides to Albertans!
IF True-dolt pulls that bullschiff before May 29, he’s just re-affirmed Smith’s Premiership for another four years. After her winning the election, she can institute parts of her Sovereignty Act including, like Quebec, the ARA (Alberta Revenue Agency) to collect income tax IN Alberta and then WITHHOLD Canadu’s share, if True-dolt steps out of line.
What’s the 51 year old teenage girl (supposed) male going to do? Declare the Emergency Act again and send in the army? MANY in the military will refuse the order.
It may get difficult for the colony of Alberta over the next little while, with that cork soaker True-dolt in power, but times will change.
Of course it is! I believe that GouvFedCan provides free copies of the Charter to Canadians who request it. Unfortunately, the copies are not available on TP. That is all that the Charter is useful for. The parchment paper copies have sharp edges that may cut one’s flesh, if used as TP, its only true use.
I like her statement. It adds a nice touch when juxtaposed with statements from the hearings going on in Ottawa where the police said the other day that they never needed Trudeau’s Emergency Measures Act to be declared when the Freedom Convoy was in town....
https://tnc.news/2022/10/21/day7-recap/
Great post. In terms of the division of power between the federal and state/provincial governments, Canada functions today the way the U.S. would have functioned if the Confederacy had won the Civil War.
Thanks. I forget who first pointed out to me the size of Canada making it ungovernable, but it might have been someone on this board from Zambia—the other leading person is a former boss of mine, a Canadian who spent his academic life teaching U.S. history.
Nice to see ya here. The difficulty in governability certainly increases with size but on the other hand, there has to be a sweet spot because the difficulty has to increase as well when density passes a threshold at the other end of the spectrum.... I think. As to what that size is would be anybody’s guess. Canada has one other difficulty... so much immigration in recent years that a vast proportion of the population doesn’t know the country’s history and as hyphenated Canadians, their loyalties aren’t what they should be.
“MANY in the military will refuse the order.”
Sure they will. Like the Jack Booted police they brought into Ottawa to bust up the truckers strike?
With any luck we’ll have a Republican administration in a couple of years and they could extend an offer to Alberta to come in as the 51st state. The reaction alone would be worth the effort!
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