Juno News - Danielle Smith on unity, sovereignty, and the rights of the unvaccinated

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.

00:00:05.620 This is the Andrew Lawton Show, brought to you by True North.

00:00:10.800 Coming up, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and I discuss the Sovereignty Act,

00:00:14.660 standing up for the unvaccinated, reforming health care, and lots more.

00:00:18.760 The Andrew Lawton Show starts right now.

00:00:22.300 Hello and welcome. This is Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show,

00:00:26.800 the Andrew Lawton Show, here on True North.

00:00:28.960 A special weekend edition of the program.

00:00:32.020 I think it's special. It's certainly rare.

00:00:33.680 We don't normally assemble on the weekend,

00:00:35.900 but we had an episode that we wanted to share with you immediately

00:00:39.160 because we know that through the week,

00:00:40.720 much of the show is dominated by the Public Order Emergency Commission,

00:00:44.980 and it is focused on Alberta politics,

00:00:47.800 which has not just been under the national microscope in the last couple of weeks,

00:00:51.880 but I'd say the international microscope,

00:00:53.880 where Premier Danielle Smith has hit the ground running

00:00:56.980 after winning the UCP leadership race and being sworn in as Premier.

00:01:01.240 She's had a lot of interest from around the world

00:01:03.380 in her comments on the Alberta Sovereignty Act,

00:01:06.440 putting Alberta's interests first,

00:01:08.120 and also her comments standing up for the rights of the unvaccinated,

00:01:12.960 something we haven't heard a lot of,

00:01:15.040 and you may have seen she made this apology,

00:01:18.040 which I think was unprecedented by a Canadian leader.

00:01:20.960 I'm deeply sorry for anyone who was inappropriately subjected

00:01:27.040 to discrimination as a result of their vaccine status.

00:01:31.120 I'm deeply sorry for any government employee that was fired from their job

00:01:35.360 because of their vaccine status,

00:01:37.560 and I welcome them back if they want to come back.

00:01:40.600 All of this has put, I think, a very sharp focus on what's happening in Alberta,

00:01:46.100 a province that is going to the polls again in May of next year,

00:01:50.000 so a pretty short runway for Premier Smith once she gets a seat in the legislature, 0.99

00:01:54.840 assuming she wins her by-election in Medicine Hat in a few weeks' time.

00:01:59.200 Now, I want to say right from the outset

00:02:01.220 that covering Danielle Smith is a bit of a different situation for me

00:02:06.180 than a lot of the other politicians that I've covered and reported on

00:02:09.500 because I've known Danielle for many years.

00:02:11.780 We used to work for the same company.

00:02:13.480 I guest-hosted for her.

00:02:15.100 I've appeared on panels alongside her,

00:02:16.940 and while I'm not partisan and was not a supporter of her campaign,

00:02:21.080 I have known her and have a very good rapport with her.

00:02:24.020 Now, I still think that I can rise to the challenge of asking the tough questions,

00:02:28.220 but I want you to be aware of the context before anyone pulls it up as some sort of gotcha

00:02:33.160 when I've always been quite candid with the fact that I've known Danielle Smith,

00:02:36.620 but at the same time, she's a professional in her role,

00:02:39.100 I'm a professional in my role, and we move from that point.

00:02:42.180 So with that out of the way, it's my great privilege to welcome to her first interview

00:02:46.980 on True North since becoming Alberta's Premier, Premier Danielle Smith.

00:02:51.620 Premier, good to talk to you.

00:02:52.640 Thanks for coming on today, and congratulations.

00:02:55.220 Good to talk to you, too.

00:02:56.220 Remember when you used to sub in for me on Chorus Entertainment?

00:02:59.220 I wonder if there's any opportunity for you to sub in for me on this role.

00:03:03.080 Yeah, I don't know if you're on vacation if I automatically become Acting Premier now.

00:03:07.220 I'd have to check the Constitution on that one.

00:03:09.380 I'll check with my staff and see what the protocol list looks like.

00:03:12.780 If called upon, I will serve, I believe, is the old line.

00:03:17.100 This has been a very, very accelerated timeline.

00:03:20.740 Obviously, you win the leadership, you're the Premier, you have a new Cabinet assembled,

00:03:24.840 you're in the process right now of getting a seat in the Legislature,

00:03:28.880 and once you get in, assuming you get in,

00:03:31.620 you're only going to have a pretty short runway before next year's election.

00:03:35.600 So explain to me what the priorities are and how much can you actually get done in that time

00:03:41.020 before Albertans are back to the polls?

00:03:43.480 Well, we will have a fall session, so that's going to be important.

00:03:46.480 And I want to make sure that we make meaningful progress on the things that I campaigned on.

00:03:50.720 So you will see a Sovereignty Act come forward.

00:03:52.820 You will see a change to the Human Rights Code come forward as well.

00:03:56.200 But the main thing that we'll be focusing on starting pretty soon here

00:03:59.340 is restructuring of Alberta Health Services.

00:04:01.900 We in Alberta took a bit of a different path to some of the other provinces.

00:04:06.160 Some of the other provinces have regional boards.

00:04:08.380 We moved to a single health super board, and it's underperforming.

00:04:11.720 I think we saw that during COVID, and they seem to be incapable of being able to address

00:04:16.200 the local needs in each community.

00:04:17.760 And it's not really fair to ask an appointed board of directors to do that major restructuring.

00:04:23.600 That's the work of the health minister.

00:04:24.780 That's my work.

00:04:25.820 And so we're going to be working on addressing some key issues in health care,

00:04:29.840 to make sure that we have an effective ambulance service.

00:04:33.180 Right now it isn't.

00:04:34.140 To make sure we've got an effective system once people arrive in emergency,

00:04:38.220 to get admitted to hospital if they need to be admitted,

00:04:41.680 or to get treated if they need to be treated and sent on their way.

00:04:44.580 And then we also have to make sure that we're using all of our facilities.

00:04:47.780 And we've got 106 hospitals in the system

00:04:50.280 to do enhanced surgical initiatives to start clearing the infrastructure or the surgical backlog.

00:04:56.080 So those are the things that we'll be working on immediately

00:04:58.600 and hoping to make some meaningful progress for patient care before the end of the year.

00:05:04.720 I know that the health spending account,

00:05:06.920 one of the key hallmarks of your campaign insofar as health policy is concerned,

00:05:11.280 and something you and I have spoken about in the past,

00:05:13.900 it's long before your return to politics,

00:05:15.900 is something that you've put forward here.

00:05:18.240 Is this something that you would expect to move on before the election,

00:05:21.700 or is this part of something you would put to voters next spring?

00:05:25.140 I want to move on it before the next election again.

00:05:27.360 I have a different process because I recognize that there's a difference

00:05:30.660 between the things that you campaign on and then also getting caucus buy-in.

00:05:34.200 And I don't want to be the kind of leader that dictates policy.

00:05:37.200 I want to make sure that our caucus is comfortable with the decisions that I make.

00:05:42.120 And to do that, you have to make sure that you've got a pretty inclusive process.

00:05:45.340 So I met with all of my MLAs one-on-one.

00:05:48.700 We have regular caucus meetings, and we're starting a new process

00:05:52.960 so that when we bring ideas forward, the MLAs are not caught by surprise for it

00:05:58.200 because the first time they see it is in the legislature.

00:05:59.980 They're going to be involved in the development of that.

00:06:02.040 I feel like I've got some pretty good buy-in from caucus,

00:06:04.660 but we're going to have to go through a process

00:06:07.320 to make sure that we can get it into the budget.

00:06:09.700 So it wouldn't be an immediate decision we could make in the fall

00:06:12.880 because there are quite significant budget implications to it.

00:06:16.240 It's something that I'd be looking to do when we release our budget in the spring.

00:06:20.340 I know that the Sovereignty Act was something that you became a bit of a punching bag over

00:06:25.320 from the media and also your opponents in the leadership race.

00:06:28.040 And I don't want to rehash that because I think you have defended it very clearly.

00:06:31.680 But I'll ask you about how you'll manage that from a caucus perspective

00:06:35.120 because you now have people in your cabinet that raise very serious concerns

00:06:39.600 and opposition in the leadership race to that.

00:06:42.740 Will there be a free vote from your caucus and from your cabinet

00:06:46.240 on the Sovereignty Act when you put that forward?

00:06:48.640 Well, here's the approach that I've taken so far

00:06:51.420 is that we brought through a team of experts,

00:06:53.840 including a retired Supreme Court judge,

00:06:56.720 several constitutional lawyers,

00:06:59.780 to give us advice on how to craft that

00:07:02.340 in the way I intended it to be crafted.

00:07:04.500 I think maybe some of the miscommunication happened

00:07:06.920 around the idea that it came forward from a policy think tank

00:07:09.980 who had one conception of how it could be implemented.

00:07:12.580 But I know as a political leader,

00:07:13.760 I have to make sure that I pass legislation and craft legislation

00:07:16.920 that can get caucus support that is constitutional.

00:07:20.600 And so my conception of the Sovereignty Act

00:07:23.080 was to assert all of our areas of jurisdiction in the Constitution.

00:07:26.780 And we had a really good, robust discussion at caucus about this

00:07:29.860 where I read out what the Constitution says

00:07:32.960 in Section 92, Section 92A.

00:07:36.780 It talks about how we have the exclusive right

00:07:40.040 to pass legislation in our core areas of jurisdiction.

00:07:44.340 I think perhaps what I'm doing is helping people

00:07:47.600 to really reassess how our country works

00:07:50.180 versus how it's supposed to work.

00:07:52.700 We were never supposed to be a subordinate level of government

00:07:55.620 to the national government.

00:07:57.020 We've acted that way and we're going to stop acting that way.

00:08:01.000 So I think once people understand that really what this is about

00:08:03.980 is going back to the original intention of our founders

00:08:07.180 when they crafted those sections of the Constitution

00:08:09.360 and as a signatory to the Charter of Rights and Credence,

00:08:12.280 ensuring that we defend the rights of our citizens.

00:08:15.280 I think what I'm putting forward is grounded

00:08:18.280 in our foundational documents.

00:08:20.000 It's just we haven't been really very faithful

00:08:21.960 to how our country has operated in the last number of years

00:08:25.420 because we've got a federal government

00:08:26.580 that constantly invades our jurisdiction.

00:08:28.540 We're not going to let them do that anymore.

00:08:30.180 I take from that that you're working on smoothing

00:08:32.580 over the opposition that might exist within your caucus.

00:08:35.260 But the question will be for people

00:08:37.080 that are not supportive of that idea,

00:08:39.480 is it going to be a whipped vote or a free vote?

00:08:43.200 All of the votes are going to be free votes.

00:08:45.420 I think that in the Westminster parliamentary tradition,

00:08:48.040 we know that cabinet has a higher standard of need

00:08:54.580 to be with the government agenda.

00:08:56.620 And so I talked it over with all of my cabinet members

00:09:00.120 so that they knew that a sovereignty act was coming forward.

00:09:02.220 I have no doubt that I'm going to get the support of my cabinet.

00:09:06.300 And if there are still some lingering concerns within our caucus,

00:09:09.160 I want to be able to address those.

00:09:11.240 But ultimately, all of the legislation that we have

00:09:13.760 will allow for somebody who has a severe objection

00:09:17.420 to be able to express that in the legislature.

00:09:20.300 But I think it's my job as a leader

00:09:22.340 to address those concerns in advance.

00:09:25.400 And so we will be working very hard over the coming weeks

00:09:29.220 to make sure that we can address all of those concerns.

00:09:31.760 And I would hope that everybody will come on board

00:09:34.500 with the approach that I intend to take.

00:09:37.880 Let me ask you about your cabinet.

00:09:40.220 You made some changes, obviously.

00:09:42.020 I wouldn't say it was anything too radical.

00:09:43.560 You've moved some people around.

00:09:45.040 But I think generally speaking,

00:09:46.700 the people that we've seen in cabinet in the past still are there.

00:09:49.680 And you've put many of your,

00:09:51.340 almost all of your leadership opponents in cabinet as well.

00:09:55.100 You were, I think, very sincere when you made an apology

00:09:58.820 on behalf of the Alberta government, as I took it,

00:10:02.120 to unvaccinated people that have faced

00:10:04.160 significant discrimination at the hands

00:10:07.180 of the Alberta government in the past.

00:10:08.960 Pastors were arrested in Alberta.

00:10:12.880 Well, the man who's now your deputy premier

00:10:14.980 was the minister of justice.

00:10:16.760 The lockdowns and vaccine passports came in place 1.00

00:10:19.640 under Tyler Shandro, the health minister at the time,

00:10:22.740 who's now your justice minister.

00:10:24.700 So how do you account for what you've said

00:10:27.780 before returning to politics and as premier

00:10:30.000 about that era of Alberta's history

00:10:32.560 and the positions that these people are in now?

00:10:34.700 Well, it goes back to the previous conversation

00:10:37.220 that we had, that when you're a part of a government,

00:10:40.340 you have to publicly take a view

00:10:42.400 that supports the government decisions.

00:10:44.360 But I can tell you, there were some knockdown,

00:10:46.260 dragout fights that happened behind the scenes

00:10:48.080 in caucus and in cabinet.

00:10:49.780 And I think that Minister Madhu has very openly,

00:10:52.960 he wrote a column on this, in fact,

00:10:55.300 in I believe it was the Western Standard,

00:10:57.440 talking about his opposition to the decision

00:11:01.200 to arrest pastors and how he supports religious freedom.

00:11:04.660 And I think you may recall that there was a change

00:11:07.140 in the health minister

00:11:09.280 as soon as the restriction exemption program came in.

00:11:11.940 I haven't had a chance to talk

00:11:12.920 to Minister Shandro about that,

00:11:14.620 but I think that that gives you some indication

00:11:16.700 that there may have been some disagreement

00:11:19.420 on certain key areas about how that was rolled out.

00:11:23.220 That's my implication that I take.

00:11:24.960 I know that we're at a position now,

00:11:27.360 especially after the freedom convoy took place,

00:11:29.640 Alberta has really been at the lead

00:11:32.540 in pushing ahead to truly treating COVID as endemic.

00:11:38.560 And I think that there is widespread support

00:11:41.360 to, especially that developed

00:11:43.360 over the leadership campaign,

00:11:44.500 that we don't want to go back

00:11:45.700 to the kind of world that we had a year ago.

00:11:47.600 We want to make sure that we're going forward,

00:11:49.380 protecting our most vulnerable in a different way,

00:11:51.540 because we know fall respiratory virus season

00:11:53.600 happens every year.

00:11:54.380 We know it's dangerous to certain members of our society,

00:11:56.560 but we can't be punishing kids.

00:11:58.100 We can't be punishing business owners.

00:12:00.240 If we've got a problem managing search capacity

00:12:02.740 in our health system,

00:12:03.800 then that's what we have to address.

00:12:05.720 And so I think that everybody is of the same mind on that.

00:12:09.240 Mistakes were made along the way.

00:12:11.140 It was a case of a lot of bad information,

00:12:13.760 in my opinion, from our public health officials.

00:12:16.180 And that's part of the reason

00:12:17.020 why Alberta Health Services is in my sights,

00:12:19.260 is that we trusted them.

00:12:21.400 We were told we had to listen to the experts,

00:12:23.780 and they let us down.

00:12:24.680 And because they've let us down,

00:12:26.420 now it's time for some major accountability,

00:12:29.160 and also some major reforms in how they operate.

00:12:31.680 So when you say no more lockdowns,

00:12:33.460 no more restrictions,

00:12:34.480 vaccine passports are a thing of the past,

00:12:36.160 you're confident that members of your cabinet,

00:12:38.800 even those that might have been involved

00:12:40.180 in previous iterations of that,

00:12:41.840 are behind you?

00:12:43.060 A hundred percent.

00:12:43.780 I can tell you that during the course

00:12:44.980 of the leadership campaign,

00:12:45.940 we were asked that question along the campaign trail,

00:12:48.320 and every leadership candidate said the same thing.

00:12:50.780 No more lockdowns.

00:12:52.040 So I think that there has definitely been a shift

00:12:55.400 in public opinion in our province.

00:12:57.480 Maybe it's not as stark in other provinces.

00:13:00.000 But certainly in our province,

00:13:02.560 there has been a shift that we really do need

00:13:04.600 to treat this particular disease and virus as endemic.

00:13:08.540 And that's what we're going to do.

00:13:09.480 We're going to make that shift.

00:13:10.280 Have you heard from anyone in any other provinces,

00:13:14.220 not necessarily premiers,

00:13:15.640 perhaps MPPs or MLAs in other provinces,

00:13:18.560 that are interested in taking things that you've done,

00:13:21.120 whether it's on sovereignty

00:13:22.120 or on amending the Human Rights Code

00:13:24.720 and perhaps bringing them outside of Alberta?

00:13:27.100 I had somebody send me a note

00:13:29.940 because they were at the PC convention

00:13:32.260 in Ontario last weekend,

00:13:33.980 which sadly was happening at the same time as ours.

00:13:35.960 Premier Ford had invited me to come out

00:13:38.180 and I wasn't able to

00:13:39.200 because we were at our own convention.

00:13:40.680 But Premier Moe was there,

00:13:42.360 as well as Premier Houston,

00:13:44.040 as well as Premier Higgs.

00:13:45.400 And I gather from the feedback that I got

00:13:48.260 is that everybody is very much talking about ways

00:13:50.940 in which we can coordinate together

00:13:52.660 to push back against Ottawa,

00:13:53.980 how we can take more autonomy and more authority

00:13:56.580 over our own areas of jurisdiction.

00:13:58.800 I think a few things will emerge.

00:14:00.500 Number one will probably be around issues of immigration

00:14:03.660 and making sure that each of us have the ability

00:14:06.980 to attract workers from abroad

00:14:08.640 that match the needs of our local market.

00:14:10.400 I know that we've already seen that

00:14:11.480 in Quebec and Manitoba.

00:14:12.960 We're talking about that in Alberta

00:14:14.580 and other provinces are too.

00:14:16.340 I think as well,

00:14:17.580 you've seen that we've taken a position

00:14:19.300 on COP27 that we've got to be

00:14:22.960 at those international forums

00:14:24.500 to defend our industry ourselves

00:14:26.240 and to talk about alternatives

00:14:27.520 and ways to reduce global emissions

00:14:29.720 in a way that doesn't harm our economy.

00:14:31.600 I think that you'll see that

00:14:32.860 there'll be other Premiers

00:14:34.920 that will be taking more of a lead

00:14:36.880 rather than letting Ottawa

00:14:38.520 represent their interests internationally

00:14:40.060 because Ottawa doesn't do

00:14:40.860 a particularly good job of it.

00:14:42.620 I will also be working with Premiers

00:14:45.340 Scott Moe and Heather Stephenson,

00:14:47.660 hopefully quite closely on a number of issues.

00:14:49.780 I already see that Premier Moe and I agree

00:14:52.320 on fighting back against the federal government

00:14:54.520 on fertilizer mandates that are arbitrary,

00:14:57.740 on gun confiscation, which is also arbitrary.

00:15:01.200 But I'd like to work with them in partnership

00:15:02.700 to see if we can partner with our First Nations

00:15:05.200 and Métis to develop an economic corridor

00:15:07.580 to Churchill.

00:15:08.480 So I sent them a letter asking

00:15:09.680 if they'd be interested

00:15:10.760 in having Premier Stephenson host us in Churchill

00:15:16.500 so that we can understand

00:15:17.740 some of the implications there

00:15:19.060 if we were to work together

00:15:20.080 to develop that corridor

00:15:21.300 and the infrastructure along with it.

00:15:23.180 So I'm hopeful that we can get that together

00:15:25.560 in the coming months as well

00:15:27.060 because those are the kind of partnerships

00:15:28.100 that I think that we would really

00:15:30.680 all be able to benefit from.

00:15:33.120 One thing I have to point out,

00:15:34.720 and I think it was a combination

00:15:35.660 of your comments in your address

00:15:38.040 at the UCP AGM

00:15:40.040 and also your apology to the unvaccinated.

00:15:43.000 I've had people from other countries

00:15:44.460 that have been reaching out to me saying,

00:15:46.340 who's this Danielle Smith person? 1.00

00:15:47.800 Who's this?

00:15:48.200 And then when they find out

00:15:48.940 I've known you for many years,

00:15:50.440 they get very impressed with me.

00:15:51.580 So thank you for that.

00:15:52.480 But there's been a global interest

00:15:55.200 in some of the things you're talking about.

00:15:57.260 And I was wondering, first off,

00:15:58.260 if you'd seen that

00:15:59.140 and what you make of it,

00:16:00.440 even if your constituency is Alberta.

00:16:02.980 Well, my constituency is Alberta.

00:16:05.420 And I think that's,

00:16:06.380 maybe that's why my comments resonated

00:16:08.540 is that I said that

00:16:10.520 I take my marching orders

00:16:11.720 from Albertans

00:16:12.480 and every decision I make

00:16:13.820 is going to be

00:16:14.640 in the interest of Albertans.

00:16:15.940 I think that there has been

00:16:16.900 a lot of interference

00:16:18.280 in our local decision making

00:16:19.900 from our public health agency,

00:16:21.900 from the federal government.

00:16:23.260 And that stops.

00:16:24.020 We're just a different place in Alberta.

00:16:26.520 We believe in freedom.

00:16:27.560 We believe in free enterprise

00:16:28.600 and entrepreneurship.

00:16:29.840 We believe in developing our resources

00:16:31.680 and getting them to market.

00:16:32.800 And we believe in community

00:16:35.320 and being able to make decisions

00:16:39.100 in the interest of our local communities.

00:16:40.760 And maybe that's what's resonated

00:16:42.520 that people are starting to say,

00:16:43.900 you know what,

00:16:44.600 I want my politicians to do the same thing

00:16:46.800 in my country or my jurisdiction.

00:16:48.860 So if people,

00:16:50.180 if that provides some inspiration to others

00:16:52.460 so that they can really get back

00:16:54.140 to what democracy is supposed to be about,

00:16:56.380 which is meeting the needs of people

00:16:58.140 close to home,

00:16:58.860 the people who elect you,

00:17:00.440 then, you know,

00:17:01.260 I'm happy to continue

00:17:02.580 to provide that leadership.

00:17:04.180 But those are where

00:17:05.060 my marching orders come from,

00:17:06.460 is that I will always put Alberta first.

00:17:08.360 I don't think anybody doubts that now.

00:17:10.460 And that means that from time to time,

00:17:12.180 it's going to put us in conflict

00:17:13.160 with the federal government

00:17:14.360 who has quite different aspirations.

00:17:16.260 There was a New York court decision

00:17:18.280 that came out a few days back

00:17:20.020 that said anyone who was fired

00:17:21.680 for a vaccine mandate

00:17:22.660 should receive back pay.

00:17:24.080 Is that aspect of it

00:17:25.460 something you would like to see

00:17:26.540 in an Alberta response,

00:17:27.700 retroactive pay for time 0.76

00:17:29.840 that these people

00:17:30.380 would have been working

00:17:31.180 had they not been put out of work

00:17:32.880 because of the mandate?

00:17:34.080 I certainly saw that court decision

00:17:36.720 and I suspect that we're going to see

00:17:38.400 more court decisions

00:17:39.220 along those lines.

00:17:40.680 I want us to be at the lead

00:17:42.360 in making amends

00:17:43.220 for some of the harms

00:17:44.560 that were caused

00:17:45.080 over the last two and a half years.

00:17:46.580 So I would have to consult

00:17:48.260 with the different departments

00:17:51.040 to find out how many staff

00:17:52.220 would have been in that position.

00:17:53.580 How many did return to work?

00:17:54.820 Because a number of them

00:17:55.420 did return to work.

00:17:56.300 And what the cost implications

00:17:58.340 of that would be.

00:17:59.180 But I think that the court judgment

00:18:02.560 is pretty clear.

00:18:03.600 We've got to be mindful of that.

00:18:05.400 And also businesses here

00:18:06.520 have to be mindful of that as well.

00:18:08.740 That I'm still hearing

00:18:09.940 that there are some organizations

00:18:11.980 that are requiring

00:18:12.980 those kind of mandates.

00:18:14.180 And I think that that is the first

00:18:16.280 of what might be several court decisions

00:18:18.060 that end up causing a rethink

00:18:20.460 on what has happened

00:18:21.480 over the last two and a half years.

00:18:22.620 So I want to make sure

00:18:24.760 that I'm doing things

00:18:25.840 sort of in a legally appropriate way.

00:18:28.340 And so I'm just going to wait

00:18:29.560 until I get that legal advice.

00:18:31.340 But I suspect we're going to see

00:18:32.620 more judgments

00:18:33.140 like the one we just saw.

00:18:35.000 Premier Danielle Smith,

00:18:36.100 thank you so much.

00:18:37.000 Good to talk to you again.

00:18:38.280 Yeah, my pleasure.

00:18:39.260 We'll do it.

00:18:39.840 I'm sure we'll do it again.

00:18:40.960 Thanks, Andrew.

00:18:41.660 That was Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

00:18:43.740 here on The Andrew Lawton Show.

00:18:45.380 Got to wrap things up there.

00:18:47.060 But my thank you to all of you

00:18:48.760 for tuning into this special

00:18:50.000 weekend edition

00:18:50.700 of Canada's Most Irreverent Talk Show.

00:18:53.160 Back from Ottawa next week

00:18:55.000 where I will be covering

00:18:56.460 the Public Order Emergency Commission.

00:18:58.340 So you won't want to miss that.

00:18:59.280 There's been some developments

00:19:00.640 in the last couple of days

00:19:01.720 that we'll have to update you on

00:19:03.120 and then lots more

00:19:04.160 in the week ahead.

00:19:05.560 So thank you so much.

00:19:06.540 Have a great rest of the weekend, everyone.

00:19:08.380 God bless you

00:19:08.960 and good day to you all.

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Juno News - October 30, 2022

Danielle Smith on unity, sovereignty, and the rights of the unvaccinated

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