Alberta Premier Smith says provinces ‘have the right’ to send labour unions back to work

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defended her government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to end the weeks-long teachers’ strike. Smith said it was the province’s “right” to send the union back to work, but said her government would “have preferred for the strike to have ended with a negotiated settlement.”

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