Danielle Smith ‘confident’ as race for UCP leadership nears its end
There will be no political pivot before the provincial election next May, says Danielle Smith. She will not back down from the policies that have made many Albertans uneasy but have brought her within reach of winning the UCP leadership race: a restructuring of the province’s centralized health care authority, a promise of no more COVID-19 lockdowns, and new, bigger battles with Ottawa.
“I know we have run an excellent campaign. I know we sold more memberships than anyone else. I know that we have done more events than anyone else. I know that we’ve got more scrutineers than anyone else, and we’ve got more enthusiasm than anyone else. I know that we’ve raised more money than anyone else,” Ms. Smith says.
Ms. Smith said if she wins the leadership race, it will be because of what she learned when she was pushed out into the political wilderness. She spent six years doing talk radio, podcasts and newsletters. “I had a better sense of why people were angry” than others in the leadership race, she says. Another key pillar of her campaign, a commitment to no more lockdowns – which she defines in part as kids not going to school and businesses being forced to shut down – has made grievances over COVID-19 policies
She would immediately order a 30-day external review of the health care system on how to quickly ramp up capacity. And she has pledged to hire a new chief executive of AHS and replace its entire board with an interim health commissioner reporting directly to her.Cabinet ministers who were once cool or silent on her policies have now signalled they’re at least ready to work with her, including establishment figures such as Tyler Shandro, Jason Nixon and Jason Copping.
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