Alberta’s new municipal affairs minister should holster his cartoon six-shooters and adopt a less antagonistic media presence, the NDP’s Kyle Kasawski recommended last week.

“When I read some of the things he’s said, he kind of reminds me of the Bugs Bunny character Yosemite Sam,” the NDP critic said of Dan Williams.

“He walks into a sleepy saloon and says he’s the rootinist tootinist hombre in town. It’s a very strange approach, I think, for a minister responsible for municipal affairs to take,” said Kasawski, the shadow cabinet minister for the portfolio.

Williams, the UCP member representing Peace River, stepped into the role in May when he was shuffled from mental health and addiction. Soon after, he spoke out against policies he classified as woke, DEI or not the business of munici

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