Alberta NDP to check to ensure premier doesn’t get OK to interfere in justice system

The Opposition NDP says it will be watching to make sure advice to Premier Danielle Smith doesn’t grant her backdoor permission to continue interfering in Alberta’s justice system.

NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she assumes Justice Minister Mickey Amery will remind Smith of the firewall separating politicians from the front-line prosecution of court cases, but says if not her caucus will raise the alarm.

Earlier this week, Smith stood in the house and apologized to all Albertans for a phone call she made earlier this year to then-justice minister Tyler Shandro.

In the call, Smith unsuccessfully tried to convince Shandro to abandon the criminal prosecution of a COVID-19 protester.