So, having had her public temper tantrum over appointing judges, Smith now wants to amend the Constitution so that the decision about who gets to sit as a judge is made by her alone.
To be abundantly clear - painfully so - this is a power grab. Worse, given Smith's track record, this would ultimately turn out to be nothing less than the politicization of the judiciary.
She claims that Alberta doesn't have a say in appointing judges to the senior courts in Alberta. This is false - Alberta very much has a seat at the table, but the political seat at the table is not the controlling seat, and that's what Smith is actually upset about.
