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Finally someone said it as it is.

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This might more accurately describe the situation facing the Premiers, Constitutionalism, Democracy and the Rule of Law.

http://fundamentaljustice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PremiersCouncil.pdf

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Insofar as Premier Smith's response to the Ethics Commissioner's Investigation Report re: Mr. Pawlawski, I suggest you read the Investigation Report of the then Ethics Commissioner, Neil Wilkinson, re: Alison Redford and the allegations surrounding the contract between the Government of Alberta and a Calgary law firm during her tenure as Justice Minister. You can find it here => https://www.ethicscommissioner.ab.ca/media/1063/final-ver-01-dec-03-13.pdf

Note, on Pages 1 - 3, the request for Investigation made by Ms. Smith, as Leader of the Wildrose opposition, references in some detail why, in her view, Ms. Redford breached section 3 of the Conflict of Interests Act.

"I'm not a lawyer."?

She wasn't a lawyer then either, yet purported to know precisely what section 3 said, and prohibited (as, by the way, all Members are deemed to know).

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