In her months of touring the province to win the UCP leadership, Danielle Smith operated on an assumption that Alberta’s justice system worked like the American one. Armed with that mistaken impression, she promised those aggrieved by charges against them for COVID rule violations that, as premier, she’d grant them amnesty.
Alberta’s Justice Ministry was apparently well aware, and wanted to quickly put to rest her assumption, Smith herself told a legislature committee earlier this month.
“When I got elected on Oct. 6 and was sworn in, I discovered that the Department of Justice had proactively, having heard the things I was
