Wed Sep 7, 2022 – 4:53 pm EDTWed Sep 7, 2022 – 6:19 pm EDT
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney met with Alberta Lieutenant Governor Salma Lakhani only hours before she said she might try and stop a law proposed by Alberta leadership candidate Danielle Smith targeting federal government overreach.
Last Thursday, Kenney appeared with Lakhani, the Queen’s representative for the province, during an Alberta Day ceremony.
It was the same day on which Lakhani told reporters regarding Smith’s Sovereignty Act idea that “we will get the appropriate advice that we need, as to whether we can sign whether it’s against our constitution.”
“This is where we keep checks and balances,” Lakhani told reporters.
“I’m what I would call a constitutional fire extinguisher. We don’t have to use it a lot, but sometimes we do have to use it.”
Smith is currently considered the frontrunner in the race to lead Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party (UCP). The party is set to elect its new leader to replace Kenney in October, after he announced he would step down due to poor ratings after imposing vaccine mandates and hard lockdowns.
She promised that if she
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