The Legislature is sitting this week, with both afternoon and evening sessions Monday through Wednesday, and an afternoon session on Thursday. The Red Tape Reduction Statutes Act, the Financial Statutes Amendment Act, and the Appropriation Act are all at the Second Reading stage and the Alberta Firearms Act is scheduled for study at Committee of the Whole.
The Province will work jointly with Ottawa to understand what caused a nine-month reporting delay on the part of Imperial Oil about seepage from its Kearl mine, north of Fort McMurray. Imperial Oil knew about the seepage in May but did not inform the Alberta government. Premier Danielle Smith said that the company had a responsibility to be transparent.
Chestermere’s Mayor and City Council will have to complete a series of 12 directives or face removal by the Province. Inspection reports show that the City of Chestermere “is being managed improperly, irregularly and improvidently”. The City must commit to hiring an auditing firm to submit outstanding financial statements for the previous two years, reviewing its procedural bylaws and providing an action plan, submitting all code-of-conduct complaints to the Province, and refrain from exercising power struggles on Council.
