EDMONTON — The Alberta government introduced a bill Thursday that would grant it sweeping powers over municipalities, including the right to fire councillors and overturn bylaws.
The proposed law would also allow political parties to run on municipal ballots in Edmonton and Calgary as soon as next year.
He said the criteria for removing councillors would be decided by Premier Danielle Smith’s cabinet on a case-by-case basis. McIver said the province needs the bill to ensure municipalities are governing on affairs that are within their jurisdiction. Putting political parties on municipal slates has been opposed by municipalities. But McIver said the goal is to strengthen trust in local government.
"Because they’re getting far more political and far more ideological, there probably needs to be more transparency about that," she said at the time. "I’m left asking why they have inserted themselves into municipal government in a manner that actually strips the voting public’s right to elect the council they deem to be the best to serve them," Gondek said.
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