With just a few days before the Alberta government drops the writ for an election, Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley said if elected, she would consider resurrecting Bill 6, a controversial bill that was put in place in 2016 to regulate farms and ranches. The bill was later repealed by the United Conservative Party (UCP) government.
Notley said at a news conference on April 27, “There is no question that we remain concerned about safety for farm workers all across the province.”
She said when the UCP “undid Bill 6, they undid a whole bunch of other things, like for instance, a minimum wage. A lot of people don’t know that farm workers in Alberta actually aren’t necessarily entitled to be paid the minimum wage.”…