Alberta Premier Proposes Collaboration With Quebec to ‘Enhance’ Provincial Autonomy

(L-R) Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Quebec Premier François Legault Premier of Quebec. The Canadian Press/Spencer Colby; Jacques Boissinot

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is proposing that her government and Quebec’s work together to find ways to “enhance” provincial autonomy within the federation, saying both provinces share an interest in “countering overreach by the federal government” in areas of provincial jurisdiction.

Smith wrote a letter to Quebec Premier François Legault on March 21, expressing Alberta’s “support in principle” for some recommendations from a Quebec-commissioned report on steps the province can take to increase its autonomy within the Canadian federation, among other objectives.