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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her newly named parliamentary secretary for civil liberties will keep an eye on matters from campus free speech to excessive use of police force.
Smith said that as her government introduced a bill to abolish adverse possession -- or squatter's rights -- questions arose on what more could be done to protect private property rights. "There's a whole range of things that came up in this fall session and it seemed to me having a parliamentary secretary focused on property and civil rights would allow for her to give us some advice on how we might be able to address these in legislation," Smith told the radio audience Saturday.
She said there are other civil liberties concerns regarding prospective federal gun legislation, as well as potential new laws that aim to force digital platforms to enter into compensation agreements with news companies whose journalistic content they share. At the time, Allard called the threats and intimidation inexcusable and said her private life and her family are out of bounds to protesters.Smith did not mention protection for people unvaccinated against COVID-19 when speaking about areas that Allard's role would address.
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