The violation was in relation to criminal charges against COVID\u002D19 protester Artur Pawlowski
Marguerite Trussler’s report, released Thursday, comes in the waning days of a bitter election campaign with voters going to the polls on May 29.then-justice minister and attorney general Tyler ShandroEarlier this month, a judge in Lethbridge, found Pawlowski guilty of mischief and other charges for his role in a protest over COVID-19 restrictions that snarled Alberta’s main border crossing into the U.S. in early 2022.
“She asked the attorney general if there was something that could be done about the charges and could they help Mr. Pawlowski. She was concerned about the political optics of the press conference Mr. Pawlowski was planning.” “In the whole scheme of things, it is a threat to democracy to interfere with the administration of justice. It is the first step toward the type of judicial system often found in a non-democratic or pseudo-democratic country where members of and friends of those in power are shielded from prosecution or are acquitted by the courts on the instructions of those in power.”
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