Juno News - October 31, 2022


An authentic politician in Canada？

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consistent politician in Alberta
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Danielle Smith
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3 minutes

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519

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38

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Danielle Smith is the new premier of Alberta, and I think there's one very noteworthy takeaway about her rise to power, and that is her consistency. It's incredibly rare in Canadian politics, and it's quite refreshing to see it from her.

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00:00:00.000 I think there's one very noteworthy takeaway about Danielle Smith's rise to power as the new 0.63
00:00:05.340 Premier of Alberta, and that is her consistency. It's incredibly rare, unfortunately, in Canadian
00:00:11.780 politics, and it's quite refreshing to see it from her. Allow me to explain. So back when the UCP
00:00:17.560 leadership race first commenced, Smith was a guest on my former podcast, and I asked her right out of
00:00:23.000 the gate, okay, why are you running to be Premier of Alberta? She said there were two things, two
00:00:27.140 driving things that was motivating her to run. One was she wanted to make sure that she could be in
00:00:32.380 office so there would be somebody to say, no more COVID restrictions at all. Over. It's done. And
00:00:38.320 number two, she wanted to make sure Alberta got a fair shake in its dealings with the federal government
00:00:43.220 because it wasn't happening, and she would be the one to stand there and say, no more. Well, guess
00:00:49.040 what? She said that at the very beginning of the race. She kept saying it throughout the race. She
00:00:53.720 won. She became the Premier. She gets into office, and so much of what she has done has actually been
00:00:59.180 consistent with those two themes. So much of it has circled around those. She has said that we're not
00:01:05.140 going to be accepting from the federal government any edicts that are not consistent with Alberta's
00:01:09.320 best interests. She has apologized to the unvaccinated for all of the various restrictions
00:01:14.580 that they face. She said controversially that the unvaccinated were the most discriminated in
00:01:19.360 recent history. I'm not sure why it was that controversial. I appreciate that made people
00:01:23.200 unhappy, uncomfortable, but factually speaking, it's just kind of like a correct statement.
00:01:28.360 These things, though, leading themes, she stuck with them from beginning to end. And you're saying,
00:01:33.820 okay, Fury, how is this particularly noteworthy? It's noteworthy because think about it. It's
00:01:38.320 exceedingly rare. That's actually not how Canadian politics operates at all. Grassroots activists know
00:01:44.700 they have been so burned because they have someone who runs for office, runs into leadership, says,
00:01:49.960 I'm going to be just like this. I'm going to stand for X, Y, Z. And then the months pass by,
00:01:54.280 you get to the point where they're in office, they're in the position, and you're like, who is
00:01:57.840 this person? This person is not at all like what I thought I was getting. A lot of people say that
00:02:02.620 about Ontario Premier Doug Ford. I think this is such an interesting, instructive pathway for
00:02:09.000 conservative politicians in Canada, for politicians, I guess, of any political perspective,
00:02:13.980 liberal NDP, the idea of being consistent, being authentic, and how maybe that's just the better
00:02:20.540 pathway into electoral politics in the first place. Daniel Smith, an incredible breath of fresh air
00:02:27.380 for saying, this is what I believe in, vote for me if you agree with me, gets into office,
00:02:33.300 and actually follows through. Hats off to an authentic politician.
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