Alejandra Pulido-Guzman

Lethbridge Herald

The UCP government’s passing of Bill 2 is a “nuclear option,” Opposition leader Naheed Nenshi said after a marathon session of the Alberta Legislative Assembly that ran into the small hours of Tuesday morning.

“They refused to solve a problem of their own making,” Nenshi told media later Tuesday. I”nstead, they went straight to the nuclear option, in what is the most cowardly act I have ever seen from any government.”

Nenshi blamed the Alberta Teachers Association strike on the UCP during the Legislative Assembly, when a government makes such a major mistake, “It’s either incompetence or malice. And I’ll give Premier Smith credit, she got the double play.”

He pointed out Smith was not present at the Legislative Assembly after Bill 2 was introd

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