Don Braid: Facing ethics probe, Danielle Smith looks to make issue out of non-issue with feds

Very quickly after disclosing the probe, Smith tried to change the channel by blasting federal Justice Minister David Lametti over a red herring

She talked to Pawlowski for 11 minutes about the charges against him for his behaviour at Coutts, and how they were, in her view, purely political.

At a conference with First Nations leaders, Lametti had seemed to show some sympathy for their demands to rescind the Resource Transfer Acts of 1930. They say that nobody asked their opinion in 1930, and the same thing happened with the new provincial laws.Patrick Doyle/Reuters Lametti responded on Twitter: “To be clear, at no point did I commit our government to reviewing areas of provincial jurisdiction, including that over natural resources.”Article content

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