Alberta Premier Danielle Smith spoke to a pastor just weeks before his criminal trial on pandemic-related charges, promising she would again discuss his case with justice officials, beyond the earlier pleas she had already made on COVID-related prosecutions.
The phone conversation between Smith and Artur Pawlowski, a controversial Calgary street pastor, happened in early January, just weeks before his trial in Lethbridge on Feb. 2.
Pawlowski faces charges of criminal mischief and an offence under Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act related to last year’s Coutts, Alta., border blockade. A judge is set to deliver a verdict in early May.
CBC News has obtained a full
