Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has delivered a new version of why she engaged in a controversial phone call with a Calgary street pastor in which they discussed his upcoming criminal case related to COVID-19 public health measures.
Smith told her weekly phone-in radio show Saturday that she took the call from Artur Pawlowski because she thought it was going to be in the context of his role as the leader of another political party.
She said when the discussion veered into Pawlowski’s court case, she simply reminded the former head of the Alberta Independence Party that she had tried to gain amnesty
