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Alberta Liberals ushered in a slate of new and controversial progressive policies Saturday, backing a move to teach the concept of sexual consent in Alberta schools and endorsing restrictions on advertising alcohol to young Albertans.

About 100 party members attending the policy convention at Edmontons Chateau Nova Hotel said it should not be profitable for payday and car title loan companies to operate in Alberta and that Alberta Treasury Branches should offer low-interest, short-term credit to vulnerable Albertans who need smaller loans.

Liberals also voted to make municipal political contributions eligible for tax receipts just as provincial and federal political contributions are and to appoint an independent environmental commissioner who reports to the legislature.

Some of the most intense debate Saturday concerned a move to ban the practice of economic withholding, in which power producers take power plants off-line for discretionary shutdowns, which invariably leads to electricity price spikes, the policy said.

An amendment tied the popular policy to the introduction of so-called smart grids, which improve efficiency and reliability of power distribution.

After some debate, past-president Todd Van Vliet told members that in passing the resolution with the smart grid amendment, we tie our hands, and implement a complete disaster.

As a result, the policy was put on hold until the next policy convention.

Liberals also repealed the partys controversial fuel excise tax policy, which called for the doubling of Albertas gas tax from nine cents per litre to 18 cents per litre. The policy made waves when it passed last year, with one Liberal calling it political suicide.

The Liberal Party was Albertas official opposition until the 2012 provincial election, when the Wildrose took over opposite the Progressive Conservative. Since then, two Calgary MLAs Kent Hehr and Darshan Kang have announced they will leave the Liberal party to run for Justin Trudeaus federal Liberals.

The party stumbled in early 2014 when Elections Alberta deregistered 53 of its 87 constituency associations because they failed to file their annual financial statements.

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Opposition MPs are expressing concerns about the governments handling of Canadas deepening role in the war against Islamic State militants, as Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears ready to seek parliamentary approval to once again send the country into a Middle East conflict.

In interviews Sunday, NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar said his party opposes a combat role for Canada in the campaign against the Islamic State (IS), while Liberal critic Marc Garneau said the government must be crystal-clear on the objectives and role for Canadas military to guard against an open-ended commitment and mission creep.

Both MPs slammed the governments lack of transparency on the issue so far including Mr. Harper announcing while in New York City last week that the United States has asked for Canadian assistance in the fight as Washington seeks to build as broad a coalition as possible.

Mr. Harper said cabinet would discuss this week a request from the U.S. to support air strikes against IS forces. The most likely combat contribution would be a half-dozen CF-18 fighter jets and tanker aircraft that conduct in-air refuelling for war planes, in addition to extending the current non-combat effort of providing training for Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq and providing airlift capability.

There are some questions about whether Canadian Forces can contribute much in the way of combat support. Budget cuts at the Department of Defence have curtailed maintenance work on the CF-18s and it could take some time to deploy the jets or have them fly a lot of sorties, said David Perry, an analyst at the Canadian Defence Associations Institute.

Over the last three years, the big focus on the reductions to the Department of National Defence has been on its operating budget, so it has less flexibility now than it had historically to undertake a mission and to do it without getting extra funding, he said.

A spokeswoman for defence Minister Rob Nicholson, Johanna Quinney, said the Royal Canadian Air Force has the capacity to meet its operational needs.

Both the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister John Baird have vowed that any combat deployment would be put to a vote in the House of Commons, where Conservatives hold the majority of seats. Mr. Harper did not disclose the exact nature of the assistance sought, and it is possible the coalition which now includes France and Britain may not need Canadas CF-18s, but would instead seek a support capability and an extended training mission for special forces now operating in the Kurdish northern Iraq.

Mr. Dewar, who travelled to the country this summer with Mr. Baird, said his party would not support a combat role for Canada but wants to see a much greater humanitarian operation as Iraq struggles to cope with more than one million internally displaced refugees.

With everything weve seen so far, its hard to see how we can support the government, the NDP MP said. He said Iraqis, including Kurdish leaders, requested support for the humanitarian mission. Based on what is actually needed and what I think Canadians would support, we would be the first ones up for the support for the humanitarian assistance needed to save lives. But we couldnt get behind the kind of ill-defined combat mission these guys are talking about so far.

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