Alberta municipalities blasts UCPs authoritarian bills 18, 20 and 21

"You've empowered a future monster" - Paul McLaughlin, head of Rural Municipalities of Alberta. (Image source: Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

Alberta Municipalities and Rural Municipalities of Alberta, the organizations that speak for Alberta's urban and rural municipalities, are both pushing back against the UCP's unprecedented, anti-democratic power grabs that will undermine local governments across Alberta.

Calls to scrap the bills are growing stronger despite superficial tweaks to Bill 20 last week. The proposed provincial overreach between Bills 18, 20 and 21 would still give the Alberta Government unchecked power to intrude on the authority of local governments, including the ability to block federal funding, fire councillors, overturn local bylaws, force political parties on municipalities, and undermine local emergency response systems.

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Premier Smith's superficial band-aid amendments to Bill 20 little to prevent anti-democratic overreach by provincial cabinet. But there’s no amount of acceptable new provincial overreach. The UCP must scrap Bills 18, 20 and 21 entirely.