National Post: A massive expansion of urban tent cities and open-air drug use. A crisis of “catch and release” justice. Racial favouritism in hiring and criminal sentencing. A health-care system that routinely offers death to patients in lieu of treatment.
Almost all of these new realities were accelerated or enabled by federal action. As such, a common supposition is that they can only be reversed at a federal level.
But particularly in the last few months, the Government of Alberta has been pushing the limits of their power on issues generally considered the exclusive domain of the federal government. In many areas, Alberta’s already providing a template of how far a provincial government can go in defying Ottawa…