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(Note from Steve: Danielle Smith doesn’t have children or grandchildren, and she obviously doesn’t care about ours)

Alberta is taking the federal government to court, saying Ottawa has failed to follow through on what Premier Danielle Smith calls necessary changes to a law governing resource development.

The federal Impact Assessment Act, enacted in 2019, determines whether certain major resource projects should be approved based on the environmental, economic or social impact each project might have.

Smith told reporters that the government failed to make the amendments she requested, and the amendments approved earlier this year didn’t go far enough to bring the legislation in line with the constitutional division of powers between levels of government.

“Their amendments contain some clever word games, but still ultimately gave the federal government control over projects that fall under Alberta’s exclusive jurisdiction,” she said.

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