As someone living with stage four lung cancer, Dave Nitsche says Danielle Smith does not know the first thing about the disease.
He’s criticizing the perceived front-runner in the UCP leadership race for her recent controversial comments“When Danielle Smith's comments came out, about how the three stages of cancer were within someone’s control – they are not. I started shaking. I was so angry, I lost sleep over it,” Nitsche said during a news conference Friday with the NDP leader Rachel Notley.
“When you think everything that built up before you got to stage four and that diagnosis, that’s completely within your control and there’s something you can do about that – that is different,” Smith said.Notley told reporters Smith’s explanation of her comments – they were “clearly misunderstood” – and apology in the UCP debate in Medicine Hat were inadequate.
Notley also said that Smith should know better given her background as a professional communicator who has worked as a politician, radio host and journalist. He said he had no idea about his condition prior to that. He was an avid runner and otherwise healthy.
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