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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!<\/p> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Excerpted from Toronto Star  July 14, 2022 article by Graham Thomson<\/a> iPolitics Columnist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alberta’s Danielle Smith is running a United Conservative Party leadership campaign that\u2019s not just anti-establishmen<\/strong>t but anti-science<\/strong>, anti-vax<\/strong>, anti-law<\/strong> and overall anti-reality<\/strong>. It\u2019s a campaign based on anger, grievances, half-truths and conspiracies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps most ominously for the UCP establishment, Smith\u2019s campaign is centred less on the values of the party and more on the pugilistic personality of Smith herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s an aggressive campaign that could propel Smith to victory or split the party, or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Smith\u2019s version of reality as premier, she would create an \u201cAlberta Sovereignty Act\u201d and invoke it to override federal laws she doesn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe have had enough of Eastern Canada robbing us blind,\u201d she told an enthusiastic audience of 270 in Edmonton two weeks ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Ottawa acts in a lawless way, it\u2019s up to us to restore the law,\u201d she told a standing-room-only crowd in Airdrie a few days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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! === Excerpted from Toronto Star  July 14, 2022 article by Graham Thomson iPolitics Columnist Alberta’s Danielle Smith is running a United Conservative … Continue reading “seems about Right…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20166,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}