Danielle Smith’s brain trust just released specially commissioned paintings by Court Painter: depicting to those Angry Albertan’s a taste of what she is capable, to free Alberta from the tyranny of the Great Dominion!
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Excerpted from Toronto Star July 14, 2022 article by Graham Thomson iPolitics Columnist
Alberta’s Danielle Smith is running a United Conservative Party leadership campaign that’s not just anti-establishment but anti-science, anti-vax, anti-law and overall anti-reality. It’s a campaign based on anger, grievances, half-truths and conspiracies.
And it’s proving to be remarkably effective at raising money and winning supporters. This week, Smith announced that rather than pay the $175,000 in leadership entry fees in three instalments, as allowed by the party, she has paid it in full. And instead of submitting the names of 1,000 party supporters, she has tendered 4,500.
Perhaps most ominously for the UCP establishment, Smith’s campaign is centred less on the values of the party and more on the pugilistic personality of Smith herself.
It’s an aggressive campaign that could propel Smith to victory or split the party, or both.
In Smith’s version of reality as premier, she would create an “Alberta Sovereignty Act” and invoke it to override federal laws she doesn’t like, stand up against an imaginary plot by the federal government to impose mandatory vaccinations, and protect angry truckers who want to occupy cities in the name of freedom.
“We have had enough of Eastern Canada robbing us blind,” she told an enthusiastic audience of 270 in Edmonton two weeks ago.
“When Ottawa acts in a lawless way, it’s up to us to restore the law,” she told a standing-room-only crowd in Airdrie a few days ago.
