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My guess is no, if it is a federal law. Unless it is a provincial violation.
Just a guess. Happy to be corrected.
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Just a guess. Happy to be corrected.
Absolutely not.
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It seems she (or her handlers) still don't get how the system works:
Alberta premier reverses course on promise to seek pardons for COVID-19 health violators
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who promised less than three months ago to seek pardons for COVID-19 health violators, now says she will let justice take its course.edmonton.ctvnews.ca
Looks like a backtrack. I’m sure some supporters won’t be too happy.
“But I ask them [Crown prosecutors] on a regular basis, as new cases come out, is it in the public interest to pursue and is there a reasonable likelihood of conviction?”
And supporters, apparently equally unaware of the system, are angry that they haven't received the amnesties that she promised.
Heck, even the PM can't grant pardons. The Governor General can as part of the reserved powers of the Crown. And. Good. Luck. With. That.
I guess the US President can because he is also the Head of State, and governors are heads of sovereign states within the Union.
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But I believe one can apply for a Criminal Code pardon? But that gets vetted and eventually sent to the Minister on a case-by-case basis, correct? And I don’t think there is a process to apply for a pardon of a provincial statute. I believe once you’re convicted and paid your fine, that’s it.
I am happy to be corrected on this. But it sounds like Smith’s lack of discernment has struck again.
I am happy to be corrected on this. But it sounds like Smith’s lack of discernment has struck again.
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No, it's the Parole Board of Canada that decides on
However, ss. 748 and 749 of the Criminal Code does provide for pardons and remissions to be granted by His Majesty or the Governor in Council.
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A wonderful metaphor demonstrating the relationship between Alberta and Ottawa: awkward...
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Alberta signs $24B, 10-year health-care funding deal with Ottawa
Alberta has become the seventh province to sign an agreement in principle with Ottawa on health-care funding.
Looks like some people can get along.
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Is that were she's getting the budget room to give the oil companies money to "clean up their liabilities"?Alberta signs $24B, 10-year health-care funding deal with Ottawa
Alberta has become the seventh province to sign an agreement in principle with Ottawa on health-care funding.
Looks like some people can get along.
No clue. Just seems that all the tough talk went away.
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I'm just getting the popcorn ready for the folks saying that Smith is a leftist Liberal.
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The reigning party is going to be looking pretty good tomorrow, thanks to oil prices 
Posted February 26, 2023 10:28 am
Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars.
“Any budget that’s leading into an election is always one that contains quite a few goodies,” said University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.
“Combine that with a government with significantly higher resource royalties than planned, and you have a lot of scope for big announcements.”
Finance Minister Travis Toews, in his four years in the post, has tabled budgets that began with multibillion-dollar deficits and recently spotlighted multibillion-dollar surpluses due to rebounding oil and gas revenues.
The province said in its mid-year forecast that it’s expected to finish the current fiscal year, which concludes at the end of March, with a $12.3-billion surplus on the strength of high oil prices and oilsands operations reaching the higher post-payout stage of production.
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Alberta’s 2023 budget expected to be overflowing with surplus of petrodollars
By Dean Bennett The Canadian PressPosted February 26, 2023 10:28 am
Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars.
“Any budget that’s leading into an election is always one that contains quite a few goodies,” said University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.
“Combine that with a government with significantly higher resource royalties than planned, and you have a lot of scope for big announcements.”
Finance Minister Travis Toews, in his four years in the post, has tabled budgets that began with multibillion-dollar deficits and recently spotlighted multibillion-dollar surpluses due to rebounding oil and gas revenues.
The province said in its mid-year forecast that it’s expected to finish the current fiscal year, which concludes at the end of March, with a $12.3-billion surplus on the strength of high oil prices and oilsands operations reaching the higher post-payout stage of production.
Alberta’s 2023 budget expected to be overflowing with surplus of petrodollars | Globalnews.ca
The UCP has already announced a handful of plans for the 2023 budget, which will be tabled Tuesday.
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If they’re smart, in addition to laying down debt, they’ll get back to pumping significant surplus revenues into the province’s sovereign wealth fund as a hedge against eventual decline in the oil sector. Alberta had missed this opportunity several times in the past, but they don’t need to keep doing so.The reigning party is going to be looking pretty good tomorrow, thanks to oil prices
Alberta’s 2023 budget expected to be overflowing with surplus of petrodollars
By Dean Bennett The Canadian Press
Posted February 26, 2023 10:28 am
Alberta is scheduled to introduce its budget Tuesday — the last before a spring provincial election — with political observers wondering what the province will do with all its billions of extra petrodollars.
“Any budget that’s leading into an election is always one that contains quite a few goodies,” said University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.
“Combine that with a government with significantly higher resource royalties than planned, and you have a lot of scope for big announcements.”
Finance Minister Travis Toews, in his four years in the post, has tabled budgets that began with multibillion-dollar deficits and recently spotlighted multibillion-dollar surpluses due to rebounding oil and gas revenues.
The province said in its mid-year forecast that it’s expected to finish the current fiscal year, which concludes at the end of March, with a $12.3-billion surplus on the strength of high oil prices and oilsands operations reaching the higher post-payout stage of production.
Alberta’s 2023 budget expected to be overflowing with surplus of petrodollars | Globalnews.ca
The UCP has already announced a handful of plans for the 2023 budget, which will be tabled Tuesday.
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Smart like the last umpteen times they blew it up their noses?
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Explain to me how any other province (or the federal gov't for that matter) could conceivably lay claim to a surplus in the Alberta "provincial" coffers?
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In the Feds case, they probably don't have to take it. They can just reduce the transfer payments by the amount they want from Alberta. Just a guess.
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