EXCLUSIVE: Blacked out docs show Carney bracing for Alberta separation legal showdown
Ottawa is seeking constitutional advice on Alberta’s independence from a top Crown lawyer who successfully argued in the Supreme Court that Quebec had no unilateral right to leave Canada.
Heavily redacted documents show that Ottawa is seeking constitutional advice on Alberta’s independence from a top Crown lawyer who successfully argued in the Supreme Court that Quebec had no unilateral right to leave Canada after the narrow 1995 separation vote.
In response to a Freedom of Information and Privacy Act request by True North, the Department of Justice released legal correspondence on Alberta’s proposed independence referendum.