July 20, 2021
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau showed “contempt for democracy” by appointing a Senator to represent Alberta ahead of the province’s Senate elections.
“The Prime Minister knows full well that Alberta will be holding elections for Senate nominees in October of this year. I personally informed him of our forthcoming Senate elections at our July 7, 2021 meeting in Calgary,” Kenney said in a statement.
“[I] told him that the Alberta Legislature had adopted a motion calling on the Prime Minister not to fill the two current senate vacancies, but to wait for Albertans to choose their own preferred Senate candidates.”
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