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What is Elbows Down Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Up to Tomorrow? Going to a Prager U Fundraiser [1]

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Date: 2025-03-26

Many of you are probably not aware of the Premier of my province, Alberta. Danielle Smith was elected Premier of Alberta in 2024, an election in which her United Conservative Party (UCP) won 48 seats to the New Democrats 36. While the New Democrat increased their vote share and number of seats, they could not overcome the UCP domination of rural Alberta.

While I could spend two or three paragraphs outlining the far right agenda of her government, her values are probably best summed up with this picture and BlueSky post.

x Danielle Smith claims conservatives are being characterized with dangerous and outrageous rhetoric? Unrelated, but here she is standing with transphobe misogynist Jordan Peterson, fraud felon Conrad Black and noted Great Replacement Theory race-bating hatemonger Tucker Carlson. — RexLibris (@rexlibris.bsky.social) 2024-07-23T17:31:30.999Z

Tucker Carlson, besides being a racist, misogynistic, frat boy douchebag lickspittle of a man, is a bit of a trendsetter in politics. After all, he started advocating for the invasion of Canada in 2023, long before that idea burrowed into what’s left of Donald Trump’s brain, and long before Smith’s appearance with him in Calgary in January 2024.

In justifying appearing with Tucker Carlson, as well as the friendly private dinner they had the night before, a Smith spokesman said that it was an opportunity to “share Alberta’s message”. That message, apparently, including bashing solar power, trans rights, and commiserating about four individuals charged with weapons offences and, checks notes, “conspiracy to commit murder”, during an anti-vax blockade at the Coutts Border crossing. She later said to Carlson, that she was working to get then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired, “and would love your help with that”.

So lets do a recap. In January of 2024, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith asked Tucker Carlson, who advocated for a US invasion of Canada, with help in firing Canada’s duly elected Prime Minister.

That seems bad.

So lets move up in time. In November of 2024, after his sickening election to the presidency in 2024, Donald Trump decided to make Canada the United States “51st State”, something no one in the 158 year history of Canada has ever wanted. The tariffs he is imposing on Canada seems directly related to this desire, with Trump recently saying that he is harder on Canada than on China or Russia, “only because it is meant to be our 51st State”.

Canada’s Prime Minister and its premiers have fought against these tariffs and the Trump administrations aggressive rhetoric. Well, most of Canada’s premiers have. Danielle Smith has chosen a different route. She has asked the administration to tone down its rhetoric so as to elect Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. She told Breitbart (Breitbart!!), “the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America”. Cool, so fascist, racist, and out to destroy the government.

So in the midst of tensions between the two governments, tensions that will irreparably harm manufacturers, oil workers, and farmers in her province, Danielle Smith decides to appear with Ben Shapiro to help raise money for a far-right American “University”. She receives top billing with Ben Shapiro, who tweeted this about Justin Trudeau, “When we take Canada, you will be expelled to Panama to work the canal”. Smith has defended her taxpayer funded appearance by claiming it will give her the opportunity to talk to “influencers” about tariffs. Much the same as she defended appearing with Tucker Carlson.

The reality is, Premier Danielle Smith is the enemy within, doing everything in her power to support those with whom she is ideologically compatible, the American far-right, rather than supporting the existence of her own country. Imagine a leader of a Ukrainian Oblast meeting appearing at a fundraiser for Alexander Dugin alongside Russian oligarchs and Putin sycophants. That is what Smith is doing.

Elbows down Danielle Smith is a threat to Canada.

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