Premier Danielle Smith isn’t backing down from government legislation prohibiting the use of tabulators to count ballots in elections.
Premier Danielle Smith faced more than 1,000 mayors, councillors and municipal officials — many frustrated with her government’s recent legislation, at the Alberta Municipalities fall conference in Red Deer on Thursday. Premier Danielle Smith faced more than 1,000 mayors, councillors and municipal officials — many frustrated with her government's recent legislation, at the Alberta Municipalities fall conference in Red Deer on Thursday.
Edmonton Mayor Amarjeet Sohi is frustrated the province continues to pay municipalities only a portion of taxes owed on provincial buildings. Gandam said the province is giving municipalities $722 million in infrastructure grants each year in the Local Government Fiscal Framework. Smith doubled down on her government's decision when asked about the resolution. She claimed people had problems with tabulators in the last provincial election."What we have heard is that people want to go back to counting ballots the old-fashioned way by paper," she said."I would be really interested in hearing where that request is coming from because we're not hearing it as elected officials," he said.
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