[HippyLoggerBiker]

To all my Most Excellent Frens from the Great White North...

Danielle Smith rode a wave of Alberta populism to win the United Conservative Party leadership on the sixth ballot.

When she is sworn in as premier, she will be a new and potentially disruptive force in Canadian politics.

“No longer will Alberta ask permission from Ottawa to be prosperous and free,” Smith said in her acceptance speech Thursday night.

“We will not have our voices silenced and censored. We will not be told what we must put in our bodies in order to work or to travel. We will not have our resources landlocked or our energy phased out of existence by virtue-signalling prime ministers.”

https://theconversation.com/how-danielle-smith-won-in-alberta-and-what-it-means-for-canada-191238

[gymbeau]

Thanks! I was proud to vote for her and glad, but not surprised, that she won.

[grey_whiskers]

“We will not have our voices silenced and censored. We will not be told what we must put in our bodies in order to work or to travel. We will not have our resources landlocked or our energy phased out of existence by virtue-signalling prime ministers.”

[LittleLinda]

Thank you for the article. I like seeing the beginning of the wave of representatives willing to fight Trudeau’s communist policies - Pierre Poilievre winning the leadership of the Conservative Party, Danielle Smith replacing Kenney in Alberta, and the Prairie Premiers telling Trudeau they won’t permit their citizens to be harassed by feds trying to enforce Trudeau’s new gun laws. They’re all strong moves in the right direction. Our conservative-in-name-only Premier of Ontario has been bought and paid for so I don’t expect much in the way of change in my province. Toronto also tends to drag the province to the left, like most big cities’ oversized influence on the people outside their city.