Posted on 01/26/2024 5:08:38 AM PST by canuck_conservative
Smith said she viewed the sit-down interview as an opportunity to speak with all types of media and that she doesn’t agree with the viewpoints of every outlet she speaks to — a point made by her office in November when the event was announced.
Carlson also noted he and Smith had dinner Tuesday night.
“First of all, we had dinner last night, and I had the best time — and thank you for letting me, a rank foreigner, ask you questions,” Carlson said.
Carlson asked Smith for her thoughts on the four men arrested at the Coutts border crossing in 2022 — who were charged for conspiring to murder RCMP officers — and whether “it would send a powerful message to go visit them in jail.”
Smith said the Crown operates independently from the government and she’d leave it to the courts, and alluded to the phone call with pastor Artur Pawlowski that landed her in an ethics investigation in the middle of last year’s election.
“It’s pretty cold and not always sunny half the year, so I was stunned to learn that you have solar farms here. Is that true? It can’t be real,” Carlson asked Smith.
Article content Smith used the remainder of the conversation to highlight several grievances with federal environmental policy and the recent cold snap that nearly sent Alberta’s grid into rolling blackouts, resulting in an emergency alert requesting residents power down.
Last year Carlson produced a documentary-style film asking whether the United States should liberate Canada, which was shelved after he was axed by Fox News.
Several Alberta politicians, current and former, have publicly opposed the discussion between Carlson and Smith. Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley in November said Carlson is “not a credible figure.” ...
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Trudeau has persecuted Alberta for years. He wojuld do anything to keep A:befrta from exporting its oil and gas resources.
If they put Trudeau on a bicycle outside Edmonton to npeddle himself 10 miles he would likely disappear and never be seen again.
THere is a fairly high powered separation movement in ALberta.
“The Independent Republic of Alberta:
our RIGHT, our DUTY, our FUTURE”
https://www.abindependence.com/
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