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Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips is caught in a web of her own making. The more she tries to talk herself out of it, the more tangled the web grows.

And that has led to the United Conservative Party’s justice critic, Mike Ellis, to call for her to resign from the Bighorn file — the NDP government’s proposal to create a wildland park, three provincial parks and four provincial recreation areas in the Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

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“Sadly, this minister chose to politicize our law enforcement, mislead Albertans and baselessly slandered countless concerned Albertans as behaving in a way that warranted exceptional RCMP intervention,” said Ellis, the MLA for Calgary-West and a former Calgary police sergeant.

Moments before Ellis held his media conference in front of McDougall Centre in downtown Calgary, Phillips held a teleconference with reporters designed to clarify matters, but only complicated things even more.