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Link advertising5/17/2023 On the call with Pawlowski, she tells him she is regularly questioning justice officials over whether the cases were still winnable or in the public interest to pursue.Īudio of the 11-minute call was obtained by the Alberta NDP and played for reporters Wednesday. The United Conservative Party premier has called the charges politically motivated. Smith faced renewed criticism this week for her interactions with justice officials surrounding cases involving those charges related to protests over pandemic rules. “Given that there is an active matter before the court, we have no comment at this time,” Miller said in an email. The trial wrapped up in February and Pawlowski now awaits a verdict from the judge. Pawlowski’s lawyer, Sarah Miller, declined to comment on whether the Smith phone call could affect the case. “If you are an accused individual and the head of the government bringing charges against you tells you the charges against you are (brought) on the basis of a corrupt consideration, then I’m not sure why your lawyer wouldn’t bring that into the case.” “That’s an astounding thing to say from the premier of the province. “If the premier - who is in a sense the ultimately responsible individual for the executive actions of the Crown, including the prosecution of criminal offences - is telling one of the individuals so accused that the charges against him were politically motivated, then you effectively are claiming that the system is corrupt,” Adams said in an interview. Constitutional law professor Eric Adams, with the University of Alberta, agreed that Smith’s comments raise serious red flags.
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