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After a night of delays, the vote counts came hard and fast, resulting in Danielle Smith being named the UCP\u2019s new leader and Alberta’s next premier.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI\u2019m back,\u201d Smith told the room after taking the stage. Smith said the night marked the beginning of a new chapter for Alberta.\u201cIt is time for Alberta to take its place as a senior partner in building a strong and unified Canada,\u201d she said\u201cNo longer will Alberta ask permission from Ottawa to be prosperous and free.\u201cWe will not have our voices silenced or censored.\u201cWe will not be told what we must put in our bodies in order that we may work or travel. \u201cAlbertans, not Ottawa, will chart our own destiny on our terms, and will work with our fellow Canadians to build the most free and prosperous country on earth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Excerpt from THE LINE Oct 7\/22 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Premier Smith is a kamikaze mission aimed at the UCP, conservatism and Alberta<\/a> Only Rachel Notley can win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“But Danielle Smith\u2019s premiership, it seems to me, is all but certain to go down in flames as it crashes into conservatism, the United Conservative Party and perhaps even Alberta itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s take conservatism first. Much<\/a> ink<\/a> has been<\/a> spilt<\/a> describing<\/a> the flaws<\/a> and unconstitutionality<\/a> of Smith\u2019s signature proposal, the Sovereignty Act. But its not just the Sovereignty Act. There is her wild buy-in to arguably anti-Semitic<\/a>conspiracy theories, her anti-scientific support<\/a> for health-care quackery<\/a> rather than vaccinations, and her blanket <\/a>denunciations<\/a> of even the most critical kinds of protections of vulnerable populations should we find ourselves in another pandemic.  “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken Boessenkool managed the Rajan Sawhney Campaign for the leadership of the United Conservative Party<\/em> and is recognized as one of Canada\u2019s leading conservative strategists. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After a night of delays, the vote counts came hard and fast, resulting in Danielle Smith being named the UCP\u2019s new leader and Alberta’s next premier. \u201cI\u2019m back,\u201d Smith told the room after taking the stage. Smith said the night marked the beginning of a new chapter for Alberta.\u201cIt is time for Alberta to take … Continue reading “Let the games begin …”<\/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-21029","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\/21029","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=21029"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22395,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21029\/revisions\/22395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}