The Alberta government will table back-to-work legislation on Monday that seeks to end the provincewide teachers’ strike, Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday morning.

The government served formal notice Thursday that it would be introducing Bill 2, known as the Back to School Act, announcing it via an order paper published on the Alberta Legislature’s website.

“The precondition has to be getting kids back to school and so far, [the teachers’ union has] been unwilling to do that,” Smith said during a news conference.

“It’s not to say that they won’t have an agreement with us in the next 72 hours. But we feel that it’s not going to move in that direction.

“They came back with an offer that moves even further apart rather than closer together. So we would like to see a realistic approach

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