MAKICHUK: Curse of the Iron Lady: Is Smith making us look like rednecks?
Alberta's power-suit premier appears to be a double-edged sword
When Danielle Smith first became Premier of Alberta, I had high hopes.
Here, finally, was someone who would stand up to the feds, especially to that goofball Justin Trudeau.
It’s hard to believe the devastation caused by Trudeau, on our economy, and Canada’s greater economy.
We’re only finding out now, just how bad things area.
For example, over the last decade, Idiot Boy spent $11.2 billion on overseas gender initiatives, focusing on projects directly targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment as outlined in Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP).
Meanwhile, largely ignoring the Canadian military, and other areas in dire need of federal funding.
And all the while, choking resource-related projects with impossible legislative hoops and barriers. It will go down as Canada’s lost decade.
But getting back to Danny, who has now become Canada’s resident traitor in a power suit, I’m beginning to get tired of her act. Let’s just say, it’s wearing thin.
While I’m OK with moves toward autonomy for Alberta — the Alberta pension fund and provincial police are both great ideas — and the referendum as well, she can’t put all the blame on the feds.
Sorry, but that dog don’t hunt.
Yesterday, for example, reacting to President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat, she said that the Canadian government should be doing more to resolve issues with the United States, and that they should not retaliate.
Oh yeah, and take down all the resource barriers set up by the Justin Green Mafia.
No mention, of what she should be doing, to help resolve the issue.
No mention that she has refused to bring resource retaliation into play.
No mention, of standing shoulder to shoulder, with other premiers, against the threats coming from the White House.
And angering the rest of Canada — making all of us in Alberta, look like a bunch of slack-jawed yokels.
Look, nobody is perfect. Not even Winston Churchill, who once said, "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
A lesson Danny seems to have lost along the way.
But the game she is playing, may cost us in the end. Cost us dearly. And that ain’t Trump’s fault.
Let me say at this juncture, I would not vote Nenshi and his socialist pals, if you put a gun to my head.
However, I must admit, dissatisfaction is growing with Smith’s abject failure to take responsibility for her own actions. Blaming everyone, but herself.
Choose any issue. Any issue. It’s somebody else’s fault, not hers.
Going forward, whenever Smith blames the feds for what is happening with Trump, take note of what she is not saying and not doing.
While she rails on about how a 35% tariff will devastate our economy, why isn’t she offering to stand with Canada’s premiers, against the Mango Mussolini’s threats?
Why isn’t she coming up with some ideas, for a change? Why reject the common cause? To me, that’s not kosher.
Justin Trudeau is gone gone, gajong, for crissakes. Things have changed. Wake up and smell the coffee, Danny!
Instead, seemingly with the presented intent, or veiled intent, of protecting Alberta’s energy industry, she is choosing the Chamberlain approach.
Bowing down to an American Hitler.
Just imagine what the great Peter Lougheed would say about that.
"Peace for our time" was a declaration made by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in his 30 September 1938 remarks in London concerning the Munich Agreement and the subsequent Anglo-German Declaration.
The agreement wasn’t worth the paper it was printed on.
If anything, Prime Minister Mark Carney deserves full credit for acting quickly to take down economic barriers within Canada, meeting with premiers and meeting with oilpatch executives, in an effort to affect change.
I mean, he is actually listening to us! Can you believe that?
The bleeding hearts will accuse him of driving the same old Liberal bus off the cliff, but there is no merit in such arguments. None whatsoever.
To borrow a rodeo phrase, Mr. Carney has taken the bull by the horns, and, this was clearly obvious during his tour of the Stampede grounds last weekend.
Many were glad to see him.
Say what you want about Carney — yes, he still has some Justin Trudeau rejects in his cabinet, but is that surprising? — the man is a master of crisis management.
And that is exactly why he was elected, and Pierre Poilievre wasn’t.
The Conservative leader failed to see the freight train coming his way after Justin got the boot.
His failure to change, cost him the PMO job.
Meanwhile, Smith’s failure to bring Alberta energy into the Trump equation as a possible retaliation going forward, and then to grovel, bootlick and brown-nose, not to mention cringe-worthy sucking up, is just too much to take.
To the rest of Canada, she has become an out-and-out traitor.
Nobody I have talked to, in other provinces, likes her.
And they ask me why.
To be honest, I really don’t know why.
But one thing I do know, what goes around, comes around.
Smith may think she is doing the right thing, but she just might paint herself into a corner. Like an episode of the Three Stooges.
Along with the rest of us!
You know, the people who have to live here? The people who pay the bills? Who actually do stuff?
Frankly, I don’t support her Neville Chamberlain approach. I think we should get tough with that bastard.
And if we have to hit him on the energy front, bravo! Hit ’em!
We can just sell more oil to China. If he wants war, let’s give him economic war.
Folks, it’s time to play hardball with the Taco Man.
As long as we acquiesce, the torture will never stop. The threats will never stop. The nonsense will never stop. The man is a monster.
Thank God for Doug Ford. Ironically, he may be our ace in the hole.
It sure as hell isn’t Danielle Smith.