Global News published this video item, entitled “Feds “not looking for a fight” over Alberta’s sovereignty act” – below is their description.
Critics are raising red flags about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s controversial Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act, which is aimed at standing up to the federal government.
The legislation was introduced during Smith’s first throne speech since replacing Jason Kenney as premier and could be influential when Albertans cast their ballots in May. Mercedes Stephenson explains the concerns, and how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is responding to the bill.
Canada is a country in the northern part of North America. It extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area.
Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891 kilometres (5,525 mi), is the world’s longest bi-national land border. Canada’s capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
Various Indigenous peoples inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years before European colonization. The Canada Act 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British Parliament. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy in the Westminster tradition, with a monarch and a prime minister who serves as the chair of the Cabinet and head of government.
As a highly developed country, Canada has the seventeenth-highest nominal per-capita income globally as well as the thirteenth-highest ranking in the Human Development Index. Its advanced economy is the tenth-largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources and well-developed international trade networks.
Justin Pierre James Trudeau PC MP is a Canadian politician who is the 23rd and current prime minister of Canada since November 2015 and the leader of the Liberal Party since April 2013.