The chief strategist behind Danielle Smith’s recent election win to be reinstated as premier of Alberta has written an insider account of the campaign.
“I wrote an insider’s account of how Danielle Smith won the election. Short version: a killer debate, discipline and a pretty big Notley mistake,” Jason Lietaer, president of public affairs firm Enterprise Canada, said on Twitter on June 3.
“Campaigns matter,” added Lietaer, who previously provided communications services to former prime minister Stephen Harper and the federal Conservative caucus, as well as former Ontario premier Mike Harris.
In an editorial in the Calgary Herald on June 2, the campaign strategist said that at one point, Notley was winning the election. He described sitting in Brooks, Alberta, in a rented conference room in the middle of the campaign, the night Smith was to debate the local NDP candidate in her own home riding….