Alberta premier rejects suggestion she erred with bill giving her sweeping powers

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting suggestions she made a mistake when she introduced a bill that gave her and her cabinet sweeping power to rewrite laws outside the legislature process.
Smith says the changes being made to her sovereignty act reversing that authority simply reflect the normal process of honing and clarifying legislation.
Smith says the act was never meant to grant such power and if changes need to be made to fix the wording to reflect that, she’s