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FIRST READING: Alberta is setting the template on how to defy Ottawa

Province has been pushing the limits of their power on issues generally considered the exclusive domain of the federal government

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When taking stock of Canada’s decline over the last 10 years, some of the most conspicuous examples are in the realm of social policy.

A massive expansion of urban tent cities and open-air drug use. A crisis of “catch and release” justice. Racial favouritism in hiring and criminal sentencing. A health-care system that routinely offers death to patients in lieu of treatment.

Almost all of these new realities were accelerated or enabled by federal action. As such, a common supposition is that they can only be reversed at a federal level.

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But particularly in the last few months, the Government of Alberta has been pushing the limits of their power on issues generally considered the exclusive domain of the federal government. In many areas, Alberta’s already providing a template of how far a provincial government can go in defying Ottawa.

Alberta is unilaterally reining in MAID eligibility

Last month, the Alberta government tabled the Safeguards for Last Resort Termination of Life Act. Assisted suicide will still be legal in Alberta, but with far tighter restrictions than the MAID regime mandated by Ottawa.

The restriction would return MAID to its initial........

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