Pretty tough lingo for some pretty bad actors.

“I’ve got a little tip for lowlife criminals out there. If you don’t want to get shot, don’t break into someone’s house. It’s really that simple.

“Isn’t it? It really is.”

Now that’s laying down the law.

Was this a line from a Clint Eastwood cop movie?

No, these words are spoken by a Canadian politician, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, to UCP members.

Yes, in Canada, where the lawbreakers often get more of a break than law-abiding citizens, where we have elevated being weak-kneed to an art form, where the perps and the hustlers know the joke is on us.

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She tells the party faithful of her government’s plan to use the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act.

It will instruct law enforcement agencies to “not enforce or prosecute Albertans defending their homes and families from intruders.”

Repeat. Not enforce. Not prosecute. You don’t just have to stand there and take it.

The Smith government’s plan to use the sovereignty act would also instruct “all provincial entities, including our municipalities and law enforcement entities, to refuse to enforce or prosecute Ottawa’s gun seizure program.”

The Alberta premier is on a roll.

“We will seek justice for victims, not excuses for the guilty,” says Smith.

Danielle Smith says out loud what the........

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