Despite a recording showing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a street pastor facing charges related to last year\u0027s border blockade she speaks with Crown prosecutors about COVID\u002Drelated cases \u0022almost weekly,\u0022 Smith\u0027s office is once again saying she didn\u0027t mean to say that.
also called CBC’s reporting defamatory, and said he had not contacted the Crown prosecution service on the matter, nor did he recall speaking with anyone charged with ongoing COVID-related offences.“We reported factually on a conversation everyone can read about or listen to themselves on our site. Our journalism speaks for itself,” he wrote.
At one point during the phone call, Pawlowski raised concerns that the Crown prosecutor in his case had dumped more than 1,000 pages of documents and hundreds of hours of testimony, forcing Pawlowski to hire an expensive legal team to comb through it all. Smith dismissed Pawlowski’s suggestion Shandro was behind the move.
The NDP first called on Shandro to call an independent investigation in January, and Wednesday said neither Shandro nor Smith were fit to serve in their roles. “That’s for the Crown to determine in each and every single case, free of any interference from any politician,” he said.
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