Another ugly mark on Danielle Smith’s record
then-Wildrose Party stood on the precipice of dethroning Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party, which had been in power for four decades.
Albertans seemed to have had enough of Tory rule, and the ultra-conservative Wildrose seemed to be the right antidote. But then, the PCs were handed a gift in the form of an old blog post written byIn it, Mr. Hunsperger said gay people “will suffer the rest of eternity in a lake of fire, hell, a place of eternal suffering.”
It was one thing to be conservative, but a candidate saying members of the LGBTQ community were doomed to burn in hell was something entirely different. The party’s strategists knew how damaging the blog was and beseeched Ms. Smith to immediately fire Mr. Hunsperger as a candidate.It would prove to be an incredibly costly decision. Soon after, the bottom fell out of Wildrose’s support, assuring another PC victory.
Fast forward 11 years, and Ms. Smith finds herself in a very similar situation: in the middle of an election, her party has an excellent chance of winning. But its shot at victory is being threatened by ugly comments made by a candidate in an old online post.On Monday, Ms. Smith found herself doing something she’s become exceptionally good at: apologizing for her actions. This time it was for
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