The West Block – Episode 36, Season 12
Danielle Smith, UCP Leader: “This election is a choice between a United Conservative Party that’s lowered taxes, balanced the budget, and returned Alberta to its place as the economic powerhouse of Canada, or we can choose to go backward with the NDP and their recycled policies that hiked taxes and debt, drove out jobs and investment and sent Albertans fleeing elsewhere for opportunity.”
Mercedes Stephenson: How confident are you that those people are going to turn out because sometimes people tell you at the door what they think you want to hear and then they come down to it and they go, don’t really like Danielle Smith but ah, I’ve always been a Conservative. What’s your confidence level that they’re going to tick the box for Rachel Notley and the NDP?
Mercedes Stephenson: Do you think, though that maybe there’s an issue with Alberta that just hearing the word tax out here—I’m Albertan and I grew up here—it’s not popular. Is that a problem for you? I mean, are you hearing about that when you go to the doors? Mercedes Stephenson: Up next, former prime Minister Stephen Harper and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre have both endorsed Danielle Smith. But just how united are Alberta Conservatives with their leader?Mercedes Stephenson: In a tight race, getting out the vote matters and that’s why both leaders campaigns are spending a lot of time right here in Calgary.
Mercedes Stephenson: You were both Conservatives, lots of experience. Ron, you’ve been in this game since Peter Lougheed. You have run federally and provincially. When you look at this campaign for the UCP, how do you feel it’s gone so far? Evan Menzies, Crestview Strategies: Yeah, I think there’s one thing that’s important to remember is that there’s the radio talk show host version of Danielle Smith, where especially during the period of COVID, people’s emotions were elevated and some of the comments that got her in trouble were those emotionally charged comments.
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