The warring escalates between the federal government and the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, with Alberta premier Danielle Smith calling the Justin Trudeau government "lawless." We look back to previous battles between Ottawa and Alberta, as well as the current situation which affects us all.

Guest: Ted Morton. Former Alberta Minister of Finance, Minister of Sustainable Resource Development. - Also in 2001 a member of a group of 6 Albertans (including Stephen Harper) who wrote the so-called Firewall Letter calling on the Alberta government to use its constitutional powers to reduce the influence the federal government had on the province, including withdrawing from the Canada Pension Plan. (Familiar?) 

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