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The Alberta government has introduced the “Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act,” which would grant Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet broad powers to rewrite provincial laws.

The proposed legislation would also allow cabinet to direct “provincial entities” — Crown-controlled organizations, municipalities, school boards, post-secondary schools, municipal police forces, regional health authorities and any social agency receiving provincial money — not to use provincial resources to enforce federal rules deemed harmful to Alberta’s interests.

Smith said if the bill passes, her government would use it as early as this spring to fight the federal government on a slew of issues, including energy development, agriculture, health care, education, firearms, child care, property rights and social programs.