Alberta has tabled legislation that will give it sweeping powers over municipalities

[goalieguy847]

There is no defending this. We all need to remember that by enacting a bill like this it allows the pendulum to swing both ways.
WHICH MEANS that any provincial govt in power, including the ndps... could toss out a county councillor that, say, is against ANYTHING.
The councillors that maybe vote against / for rainbow painted sidewalks.. could be ousted.

Against capital gains taxes or maybe a newly implemented PST? Ousted.

This is a dangerous game. There needs to be some separation between federal, provincial and municipal powers.... the lines are already blurred but this will make it worse....

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I think a lot of power hungry tyrants tend to forget that key fact. Any heavy handed controls they want enacted to fulfill their political agenda and control the opposition could then be used against them by a future government with different political views.

[WiltonRanch]

I’m no Albertan but this interference at the provincial level is hypocritical as the same ones pushing it are the loudest critics of federal interference in provincial matters.

Yeah kinda shitty when your mayors and councils might be lefties but so what. The province can’t punt em.

[TSIPP]

What happens when a counsellor has severe dementia and nobody in that area wants the job? I really think the province needs to stay out of municipal politics but once in a while someone with clout needs to step in.

[jazz]

Would rather have Smith run my local council that have Trudeau come in and bribe them.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

What happens when a counsellor has severe dementia and nobody in that area wants the job? I really think the province needs to stay out of municipal politics but once in a while someone with clout needs to step in.

Or if a president has dementia, or if a prime minister and most of his cabinet have selective dementia.

[shtferbrains]

Possibly she sees a future with woke left cities dominating politics in Canada.

May be too late?

Winnipeg, Regina, Redmonton?

The LPC sees it too. Divide and conquer.

How much more Federal Government control can we take?

[chuckChuck]

Smith is complaining about all the federal government's over reach into provincial jurisdiction and now she wants to do the same to municipalities in Alberta? Huh?

The irony runs deep and deeper as Smith and the UCP want to exert more political control and take away the powers of municipalities. With not just this bill, but the red tape and hoops she wants the municipalities to jump through if they receive federal funding.

She must wake up every morning and think who's left to pick a fight with and who can I piss off so I don't have to fix real provincial problems like healthcare, education and the environmental liability and clean up needed in the oil patch.

[Hamloc]

For me the response is fairly simple. I don’t agree with Justin Trudeau dictating to municipalities on how they regulate house building to receive federal money and I don’t agree will Bill 20, each level of government needs to stay in their own area of jurisdiction. As for Chuck2, does nothing happen in Saskatchewan? Or would you like to live in Alberta? All you do is attack Alberta politicians.

[jazz]

Maybe chuck didnt hear the part of Trudeau coming into Edmonton and Calgary and bribing officials with tax payer debt under the condition those cities rezone every inch to accommodate 4 plexes everywhere.

Like would you want a 4 plex full of students living beside you. Good on her for fast tracking some legislation to keep the feds in their own lane.