The search could determine if her staff have been contacting Crown prosecutors and interfering in cases involving the Coutts, Alta., border crossing blockade
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has asked for an e-mail search this weekend to determine if her staff have been contacting Crown prosecutors and interfering in cases involving the Coutts, Alta., border crossing blockade.
“We have an IT department that can look at all of the emails that have been received by Crown prosecutors and assess it against all of my staff and see if this e-mail that the CBC is making reference to even exists.”Smith reiterated she has not talked to Crown prosecutors, has not directed any staffer to do so, and isn’t aware of any staffer doing so.“If a staff member had been in touch with a Crown prosecutor, we’d obviously have to take appropriate action.
The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service, in a statement, has said: “Neither the assistant deputy minister of the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service nor the Crown prosecutor involved in the Coutts files has any recollection of receiving any emails from the premier’s office.” The NDP called for an independent inquiry earlier this week over Smith’s conflicting statements on conversations she has had with Justice Minister Tyler Shandro and the deputy attorney-general about COVID-19 cases.
Smith has been sharply critical of COVID-19 masking, gathering and vaccine mandate rules, questioning if they were needed to fight the pandemic and labelling them intolerable violations of personal freedoms, which contributed to job loss, social unrest and mental health.
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