Danielle Smith’s bad medicine could cost her the election

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As new Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tries to sell her libertarian vision for the province’s future ahead of next May’s scheduled election, she keeps running into the same obstacle: Danielle Smith.

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As new Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tries to sell her libertarian vision for the province’s future ahead of next May’s scheduled election, she keeps running into the same obstacle: Danielle Smith.

After winning the leadership of her party in October, Smith spent her first few weeks as premier apologizing for things she had said, whether it was about unvaccinated people or the war in Ukraine. Now, she’s being asked to account for her claims of Indigenous heritage — ones that, as APTN’s Danielle Paradis reported, don’t hold up to scrutiny.

To read more of this story first reported by Canada’s National Observer, click here.

When it comes to Danielle Smith’s view of how to fix the health-care system, it would be every Albertan for themselves. Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
When it comes to Danielle Smith’s view of how to fix the health-care system, it would be every Albertan for themselves. Photo by Chris Schwarz/Government of Alberta/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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