It’s hard to take Danielle Smith’s hysterical outburst at federal environment minister very seriously

At this point, the Liberals are far more concerned about ensuring it looks like major oilpatch corporations are paying attention to global climate change than actually doing anything about it.

The UCP, by contrast, is mired in open climate change denial, sovereignist defiance, and keeping its extremist Take Back Alberta faction sweet.

That’s a perspective from which any old fight with Ottawa is considered worth the effort, explaining Ms. Smith’s intemperate statement yesterday – which sure sounded as if it came out of the word processor of Rob Anderson, her office manager and ideological Svengali.

But from a policy point of view, the effect is much the same.

Ms. Smith and Mr. Anderson may calculate that if this helps elect Pierre Poilievre as prime minister, they’ll be able to get whatever they want from Ottawa anyway. That isn’t necessarily so, but you can see how they might reach that conclusion. |Read more https://albertapolitics.ca/2023/08/its-hard-to-take-danielle-smiths-hysterical-outburst-at-federal-environment-minister-very-seriously/|

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