The most recent comments made by Danielle Smith came from a podcast in 2021, not long after she quit her prior job as a radio talk show host. Danielle Smith has made a lot of bizarre (or at least intemperate) statements.

Smith didn’t quite say that.

How to Become a Tyrant was a Netflix series that Smith had been watching. (I didn’t like the six-part docuseries’ cutesy music, but the explanation of how tyrants seize and control nations is worth viewing.)

When countries are facing a catastrophe (like a pandemic), it is all too easily for them to fall for “experts” or strongmen who promise a quick and easy way to stability and safety, as the Germans did under Adolph Hitler, remarked Smith, who was a private person at the time.

Smith’s response was overly scholarly. And it shows a narrow understanding of how her statements may be taken. Her deafness to regular Albertans is what leads her into trouble more than anything else.

Nevertheless, Smith is the best protector Albertans currently have against the federal Liberals and the Alberta “progressives” who want to increase taxes, outlaw guns, cripple the energy industry, obstruct pipelines, restrict the use of farm fertilisers, censor the internet, increase spending, and continue to impose pandemic mandates, despite the fact that more and more evidence is being released all the time demonstrating that while vaccines worked, so did natural immunisation.

Additionally, outside from extremely particular situations like hospitals and senior living facilities, social withdrawal, masks, and lockdowns were mostly ineffective.

Smith may not be the best choice for our province, but is there anybody else who will be able to better fend against attacks on our economy and our way of life?autonomy and the way of life in Alberta?

Just this weekend, the federal Liberals reaffirmed their support for vaccine requirements at their national conference. This is interesting considering that Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau declared only a week prior that he had never pushed someone to become immunised. (He must believe that his ban on plastic straws was the reason for the Freedom Convoy.)

The Liberals supported requiring vaccinations for passengers travelling on commercial aircraft, cruise cruises, and other federally controlled vessels. Without vaccinations, federal employees would continue to lose their jobs, and the Trudeau administration would put pressure on companies in privately controlled sectors of the economy to implement vaccination requirements.

This is true even though a recent research published in the British medical journal The Lancet revealed that among 175,000 people, earlierDespite vaccinations being more effective against hospitalisation and mortality, infection with COVID offered higher protection against re-infection for a longer period of time.

Nearly as extreme a view, in the other way, as anti-vaccination, is the progressives’ unquestioning confidence in vaccine requirements.

Can you see Rachel Notley and the NDP defying federal pandemic orders given their adherence to an all-powerful government and government-approved science? or, for instance, the carbon tax?

I can’t.

If there is ever another pandemic, Albertans are much more likely to see more lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, and vaccination passports under the New Democrats than they would the most recent science-based policy.

The wildfires and state of emergency have caused the provincial campaign to start slowly. The contrast is still, in my opinion, pretty sharp.

Under the NDP, both taxes and expenditure would increase. Energy policy would once more be in the hands of environmentalists. The health and safety laws that apply to industries and building sites would also apply to farmers.

And what about federal constitutional violations? The NDP supports the majority of Trudeau’s policies.

In the end, rather than Smith’s idiotic tantrums, I believe the NDP-Liberal alliance will decide this election.