Editor:
Wow, Danielle Smith really hit it out of the park.
She did in a few short weeks what Jason Kenney worked feverishly at for months and months and months – a drop in the polls.
When Kenney only received 51.4 per cent support during his leadership review, he realized that wasn't enough to carry on as party leader.
After the sixth and final ballot, Danielle Smith was absolutely giddy to get 54 per cent of the vote and hence the UCP leadership/premiership.
But just about everything that comes out of her mouth makes me absolutely queasy. Instead of rolling up her sleeves and getting to work addressing Albertan’s real priorities she has instead promised to ignore federal court rulings, aggressively adopt a fight-back policy with Justin Trudeau – which she relishes – and follow through with her promise of enacting a Sovereignty Act. She brags about going all the way to the Supreme Court to get what she wants.
And she is going to dismantle Alberta Health Care. Following along in true party fashion, it means firing everybody, starting with Dr. Deena Hinshaw.
Last week Ms. Smith uttered an unfathomable statement saying the unvaccinated “have been the most discriminated-against group I have ever witnessed in my lifetime.”
Well Danielle, you better get out more and meet a broader spectrum of society. Instead of bringing unity to the party, which she truly believes she is destined to do, I am sure they are quaking in their shoes.
Even more dangerously over the weekend, she suggested Ukraine is more complicit than Russia in the ongoing conflict, she is a conspiracy theorist, she champions the “freedom convoy”, and even has doubts about the unmarked graves across Canada. She doesn’t believe in climate change. Last year she wrote an opinion piece panning climate change, saying she read a book by an avowed climate change denier and then said, so here are the facts.
We should be very worried this type of right-wing fringe ideology will close doors and drive away investors from our province. She says Alberta’s best days are ahead.
And Danielle, would you please ask your comrade Mr. Nicolaides if all the members of his revamped board of governors for Athabasca University are relocating there?
Marilyn Foxford,
Canmore
