Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday the federal government is “going to continue to work as constructively as possible” with Alberta, after the province passed a new sovereignty act to act as a “constitutional shield” against overreach by Ottawa.
“We are not going to get into arguing about something that obviously is the Alberta government trying to push back at the federal government,” Trudeau told reporters Thursday in Ottawa.
Trudeau previously said, “We’re going to focus on delivering to Albertans the way we have,” when asked about the province’s new legislation.
On Nov. 30, he told reporters, “We know the exceptional powers the premier is choosing to give the Alberta government in bypassing the Alberta legislature is causing a lot of eyebrows to raise in Alberta. And we’re going to see how this plays out,” said Trudeau….