Danielle Smith BOOED over Ottawa energy deal
Danielle Smith faced a divided crowd in Edmonton as members pushed back against her government’s energy accord with Ottawa.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith received a mixed reception at this weekend’s United Conservative Party convention in Edmonton, where deep divisions over the province’s new energy accord with Ottawa were on full display.
While Smith framed the agreement as proof Alberta and the federal government can finally work together, much of the crowd didn’t buy it — booing when she defended the deal and openly challenging her message of staying within a “strong and united Canada.”
One of the loudest voices was constitutional lawyer Jeff Rath, a key figure in Alberta’s independence movement. He joined Marc Patrone to unpack the weekend’s events, saying the convention laid bare the depth of grassroots frustration with Ottawa.
Meanwhile in Ottawa, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre used the annual Press Gallery dinner to launch a series of sharp-edged jokes at both the CBC and Prime Minister Mark Carney, drawing big laughs as he mocked the public broadcaster’s ties to the PMO and Carney’s past work with Brookfield.
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And why do the "First Nations" have special privileges over any provincial or federal matters. This is not their land as they claim that it is.
It's Carney so you have to think that there was likely something, likely more than one thing about this supposed deal that stank.
Given that Carney had already stated that there were conditions on this deal, like Eby and Indigenous (amongst others) that would make this deal a no go.
In addition the WEF, UN, Environmentalist nuances that Carney placed in this deal should have made Smith, at the very least go... Wait a minute.
Instead she did not do anything except make the deal appear like a good one.
It appears that more than a few in the UCP cared to differ.