Danielle Smith is firing back at Calgary city council for not changing a city bylaw to fall into line with a provincial bill that installed provincial appointees onto the Calgary Police Commission.
“I think they’re playing games. I mean, it is an election,” Smith said. “I think that there are some ideological voices on that council.”
“It’s dangerous. And because it’s dangerous, we need to get back to the kind of policing that I think that the citizens of this city expect,” she said, in a repetition of the UCP’s tough-on-crime messaging.As recently as mid-April,Smith said another message was being sent in the addition of provincial appointees: “that policing is provincial jurisdiction.”
City solicitor Jill Floen said Bill 6 would take precedence under the Municipal Government Act if the city hadn’t amended its bylaw by then and city council would still only have power to appoint nine members.Tuesday afternoon, the executive director and legal counsel for the police commission said the commission was not informed of the new members until this month.
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