Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to voice opposition to the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to deal with the protesters in Ottawa, a move he said is “heavy-handed” and could do “irreparable harm” to Canadian democracy. In the letter, which Kenney posted on Twitter on Feb. 18, he called for an end to the federal government’s “pointless” COVID-19 vaccine mandate and travel restrictions imposed on truck  drivers crossing back into Canada from the United States starting Jan. 15. “Your government declared a public emergency on February 14, 2022. This was contrary to the wishes of Alberta and done without adequate or meaningful consultation with the provinces, as required by section 25 of the Act,” Kenney wrote. “Your government’s failure to adequately consult, coupled with the serious overreach of the orders, does a great disservice to the Province of Alberta and our country.” Following …