Opinion: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is back in — but which version of her will Canada get?
as Premier Smith put it in her victory speech MondaySmith’s statement wasn’t just a shot across the Liberal government’s bow but a promise — a threat, really — to immediately start a fight with Ottawa over the proposed introduction of an emissions cap on oil and gas as well as regulations on power plants fuelled by natural gas.
Was the rational Danielle Smith of the 28-day election campaign the new face of a chastened government?Although Smith campaigned on fixing the health-care system, investing in infrastructure and helping Albertans pay their bills, she very deliberately did not campaign on her more controversial projects.
“They’re not in our campaign because I think we’ve got so many things that we have done that we’re excited about. We’re bringing in $10-a-day daycare,” said Smith during the first week of the campaign, deflecting attention away from her own controversial ideas to focus on, of all things, the federal government’s daycare initiative.
And remember Jason Kenney rolled out a referendum in 2021 suggesting Albertans could scrap the federal equalization program. They can’t. That referendum passed, but equalization keeps rolling along.
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