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• The Legislature will be sitting this week, starting on Monday with afternoon and evening sittings. This will be followed by Tuesday and Wednesday sittings in the morning, afternoon, and evening. Thursday will consist of morning and afternoon sittings. On Monday, debate will begin with Bill 16, the Insurance Amendment Act, 2022, and Bill 19, the Condominium Property Amendment Act, 2022.
• It will be a quiet week for committees with only two meetings, both on Tuesday. From 8:00 am to 10:00 am, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts will meet to discuss the Ministry of Indigenous Relations Annual Report 2021-2022. >From 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm, the Standing Committee on Alberta’s Economic Future will meet to continue discussions about the Lobbyists Act Review.
• The Select Special Committee to Examine Safe Supply will not be publishing their report this week as originally promised. According to the government, the Committee heard more than 15 hours of testimony and requires an extension to develop recommendations. The report will now be published at the end of June.

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Remnants of the "truckers convoy" remain in Ottawa and at the Coutts USA/Canada border crossing and offshoots have appeared in cities across the country. Its hard to miss these metal and chrome behemoths rolling down the road bedecked with flags, signs and placards and horns honking their rally cry for freedom from government overreach. What has caught the attention of Canadians from coast to coast has also gained global media attention and spawned "truckers convoys" in many other countries.

I recently heard or read that there's hardly anything that has become part of our everyday lives that a trucker didn't haul and handle. That really impacted me as to how important truckers are. Truckers are the front lines "essential service" workers for everybody, everywhere and for governments to mandate against them is asking for trouble. If even a small percentage of truckers stop hauling for any length of time supply chain troubles will explode.

Another group of truckers is leading the charge to the Alberta legislature for another rally today. Regardless if you choose to join them or not next time you see a trucker in his/her rig wave a greeting or honk your horn as a way of saying "thanks".

Below is a moving video that captures the how many Canadians feel about the Truckers Convoy

That moving video is followed by a short but disturbing video recorded yesterday by Freedom Trucker lawyer Keith Wilson. 

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