As the comeback queens face off in Alberta’s 2023 provincial election, the stage is set for a battle royale.
“He didn’t think communism was so great. He told my Grade 8 social studies teacher what he thought of what we were learning. Then he realized we needed to talk a lot more around the dinner table,” Smith told The Canadian Press in 2014.
Some other famous Canadians come from that same region in northwestern Alberta: Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and psychologist Jordan Peterson, who worked for Grant and Sandy as a teenager.Smith began her political career as a Calgary school board trustee. It didn’t go great. Gallons of newspaper ink was spilled in the late 1990s on the dysfunction at the school board, where Smith was a notably conservative member.
“She’ll tell you that, as a teenager, she wasn’t super-interested in the work her parents did,” Arab said.Article contentLOU ARAB, RACHEL NOTLEY'S HUSBAND Notley met Arab on a political campaign, and pulled some strings to have him billeted at her home. They were a couple within the year, and married in August 1997. These days, Arab’s a communications officer with the Canadian Union for Public Employees.Article content
“But the thing I love about Rachel is that, the majority of the time, she’s right, but she always has time to listen and understand where the other person is coming from,” Kahlon said. The University of Calgary was known for its conservative academics during the time Smith was there, notably political scientist Tom Flanagan , but who is often cited as a major influence on Smith. She was there alongside former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, former parliamentarian Rob Anders and Rebel Media provocateur Ezra Levant. Smith received her English degree in 1993 and returned for an economics degree in 1995.
It was in university that Smith met her first husband, Sean McKinsley, though they would later divorce. McKinsley would go on to work alongside Kenney at the Alberta Taxpayers Federation and in the offices of conservative parliamentarians. After university, Smith interned at the Fraser Institute, a free-market think tank, and became a property rights advocate. That’s when she met Licia Corbella, who was then the editorial pages editor at the Calgary Sun.
“She’s a competitive person but she is not competitive in the sense that she doesn’t want other people to do well as well,” Hannaford said. “If she could help, she would.” And Smith, after abandoning the Wildrose party to join the Progressive Conservatives in 2014, lost her seat in the 2015 election. She had been the leader of the Wildrose, and the move destroyed her political reputation.
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