
-- "Premier Danielle Smith said she is receiving legal advice on how she can issue 'pardons' to Albertans who received fines or were arrested for breaking COVID-19 public health restrictions. 'It was a political decision to throw out the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to put those fines in place in the first place, and I think it can be a political decision to make amends and apologize for it and eliminate them.'" --