Commentary
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith seems to enjoy swimming upstream while rocking the boat. She has set her sights on the most sacred of Canadian cows, the health-care system.
People had better sit up and pay attention to what Smith’s up to, as her success or failure in reforming Alberta’s health-care system will set the standard for other provinces.
Danielle Smith is not like other premiers. She is undoubtedly smart and experienced, but she is also prone to impulsive actions as demonstrated by her disastrous choice to lead a mass floor-crossing from the Wildrose Party she led to the governing Progressive Conservatives in 2014. She can’t be underestimated, though. After spending years in the political wilderness, she managed to resurface, win the premiership by taking the UCP leadership, and then won a hard-fought election to entrench her role as the leader of the province….