Alberta wants conservatism

 Vincent J. Curtis

31 May 23

RE: Alberta set for hard right swing.  Op-ed by Gillian Stewart, Torstar columnist.  The Hamilton Spectator 31 May 23.

I’m still waiting for an editorial that says, “British Columbia set for hard left swing” but I’m not holding my breath.

The opinion piece, by a Torstar columnist no less, was surprising free of condemnatory rhetoric, and I would agree with much of what Gillian Stewart said.  Alberta elected a social conservative warrior because the tie-wearing respectables, who don the white Stetsons during the Stampede, proved to be liberal squishes when the pandemic hit.

Jason Kenny appeared besotted with his Public Health Officer, Deena Henshaw, and he never told her to consult with Dr. Scott Atlas, MD, Professor Jay Battacharya, or to just think of something else. He never consulted with Gov. Ron DeSantis; and so the same medically unavailing rights-crushing measures were instituted.  Pastors were arrested and jailed for holding church services on Sunday, but liquor stores were kept open.  Country, family run lunch counters were busted, but big box stores were kept open.  Kenny was invisible and utterly unhelpful in the Coutts blockade.

The UCP was 30 points down in the polls when Smith became Premier, and 7 months on, she won a majority government with 52 percent of the vote.  The cosmopolitan political-class losers look down their sophisticated noses at Danielle Smith, as they once detested Ralph Klein.  Jason Kenny would have led the UCP to oblivion, and the election might have seen the rise of the Alberta Party.

The true voice of Alberta spoke on Monday’s election.  And in a representative democracy, an electorate dominated by country folk get to irritate their sophisticated urban know-betters, who think they were born in the wrong body.

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