Smith the focus of criticism from opponents for recent cancer comments and for past musings on an Alberta sales tax, but mainly for her proposed Alberta…
“I don’t know who the front-runner is, but clearly everyone on that stage thought Danielle Smith was the front-runner. That was my big takeaway,” Calgary-based pollster Janet Brown said Thursday in an interview.On Wednesday, Smith and six other candidates debated issues ranging from health care to unity at an airport hangar in Medicine Hat, Alta.
Candidates Travis Toews, Rebecca Schulz, Rajan Sawhney and Brian Jean dismissed the proposal as illegal, unenforceable and a lightning rod for division and economic uncertainty.Smith said she believes her bill would pass legal muster and that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is the one creating economic chaos with laws and policies hamstringing Alberta energy development.
Former cabinet ministers Schulz, Sawhney and Leela Aheer said Alberta can do more by building consensus while pursuing hardball negotiations.Smith also came under attack for recent podcast comments positing that early-stage cancer is within a patient’s control — a stance criticized as profoundly misinformed and cruel.
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