Alberta premier resists calls to sack environment minister over parks row
FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta. – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is resisting growing opposition demands to fire her environment minister over comments about RCMP involvement in a new parks plan.
Notley says Alberta has made significant progress on the environmental file under Shannon Phillips and the minister has her full support.
The Alberta Party has joined the Opposition United Conservatives in calling for Phillips to step down.
The parties say she has lost her credibility because of comments about a proposed network of parks in Bighorn Country on the eastern edge of Banff and Jasper national parks.