Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took aim at the Alberta government Friday, blaming it for fanning the flames of “political division”. Speaking on Global’s 630 CHED Mornings in Edmonton, Trudeau accused the province of intentionally creating division with Ottawa on certain policy files..“There is a bit of a political division that unfortunately sometimes takes the place of everything else,” he said..Trudeau zeroed in on Alberta’s opposition to the federal single use plastics ban, which the province says will damage its petrochemical industry plan..The prime minister also said that Alberta’s government was creating political division in the use of the federal COVID-19 tracking app. According to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Trudeau told Google and Apple not to work with the province to fix its own application, in an apparent attempt to force use of the federal one..Healthcare is an exclusively provincial area of jurisdiction under Canada’s constitution..Trudeau blamed the Alberta government for much of its unpopularity in the province, and said that his government has “consistently” been there to support the province..Most polls have pegged Liberal support at 24 per cent in Alberta, and the party lost every single seat in both Alberta and Saskatchewan in the 2019 general election..The new sovereigntist Buffalo Party averaged 10 per cent of the vote in the ridings in which it ran in Saskatchewan’s election on October 26..A poll conducted in late May for the Western Standard found that between 45 and 48 per cent of Albertans support independence from Ottawa, and the sovereigntist Wildrose Independence Party had the backing of 10 per cent of voters..Western Standard Staff
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took aim at the Alberta government Friday, blaming it for fanning the flames of “political division”. Speaking on Global’s 630 CHED Mornings in Edmonton, Trudeau accused the province of intentionally creating division with Ottawa on certain policy files..“There is a bit of a political division that unfortunately sometimes takes the place of everything else,” he said..Trudeau zeroed in on Alberta’s opposition to the federal single use plastics ban, which the province says will damage its petrochemical industry plan..The prime minister also said that Alberta’s government was creating political division in the use of the federal COVID-19 tracking app. According to Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, Trudeau told Google and Apple not to work with the province to fix its own application, in an apparent attempt to force use of the federal one..Healthcare is an exclusively provincial area of jurisdiction under Canada’s constitution..Trudeau blamed the Alberta government for much of its unpopularity in the province, and said that his government has “consistently” been there to support the province..Most polls have pegged Liberal support at 24 per cent in Alberta, and the party lost every single seat in both Alberta and Saskatchewan in the 2019 general election..The new sovereigntist Buffalo Party averaged 10 per cent of the vote in the ridings in which it ran in Saskatchewan’s election on October 26..A poll conducted in late May for the Western Standard found that between 45 and 48 per cent of Albertans support independence from Ottawa, and the sovereigntist Wildrose Independence Party had the backing of 10 per cent of voters..Western Standard Staff
