Alberta’s justice minister, who is also the attorney general, says new rules that would grant anyone who’s in his job general immunity from law society sanctions are necessary to ward off “political activism, or complaints, or other interference.”

“I think that there is a very distinctive role that the attorney general plays in this province, and it must be upheld without influence from external factors,” Mickey Amery told reporters Monday.

Last Thursday, Amery introduced Bill 14, legislation that includes multiple significant changes to the political and legal landscape in Alberta.

Among those changes are amendments to the Legal Profession Act, which governs lawyers of the Law Society of Alberta.

Alberta legislation would change citizen referendum rules, restrict political party

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