It appears that willingness to amend – or at least to appear to be willing to amend – her own amendments earned her votes at the AGM
Whatever doubts existed about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith before she took the stage at Red Deer’s Westerner Park last weekend to speak to her fellow United Conservative Party members, they quickly evaporated.
“Let’s not sink to the level of our opponents, by attacking, vilifying one another, breaking into factions,” she said, as cheers and applause nearly drowned her out. “Our opponents – whether that be the NDP in Alberta or the Liberals in Ottawa – have no chance to defeat us when we, as a party, are strong, unified and boldly governing our province.” With her “large, raucous and opinionated family” there to hear her final pitch to save her place at the head of Alberta’s conservative movement, Smith’s supporters did not disappoint.of the 4,633 members who participated in her leadership review last Saturday, burying any opposition that may have been quietly bubbling below the surface of the party.Even those who, at the 11th hour, were especially worried about her amendments to the Alberta Bill of Rights in the days leading up to the vote were assuaged. On the day of the leadership vote, members roared when a more aggressive list of proposed amendments passed on the floor, after a special 30-minute debate. Smith, at a press conference that day, indicated the government’s bill could use some revision. And it appears that willingness to amend – or at least to appear to be willing to amend – her own amendments earned her votes at the AGM. What is clear is that Smith is now in full control of cabinet, caucus and party membership. She will remake the party as she sees fit. And with a Trump administration set to take control south of the border and Conservative wolves gathering outside the Prime Minister’s office in Ottawa, she will most likely be emboldened.capping greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s oil and gas sector to 35 per cent below 2019 levels, Smith didn’t pull her punches. She called the changes a “deranged vendetta against Alberta” by federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Then on Wednesday, the government announced it planned to rewrite and split its freedom of information and privacy law in two. The changes would make political staff exempt from access requests, amend timelines for requests and institute steep fines for privacy violations. The amendments to the FOI laws come on the heels of the Alberta government becoming a focus of The Globe’sJeffrey Jones reported, the replacement of the top leadership at AIMCo “is an extraordinary intervention in an organization with an independent mandate to operate at arm’s length from government.”. If you’re reading this on the web, or it was forwarded to you from someone else, you can sign up for it and all Globe newsletters
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