Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gestures as she speaks to party faithful at the United Conservative Party annual general meeting in Calgary, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith gestures as she speaks to party faithful at the United Conservative Party annual general meeting in Calgary on Saturday. Alberta's premier leads a party whose most active members almost unanimously want the province to refuse to house trans women in women's prisons, and require schools to tell parents if their children want to secretly change their pronouns, as New Brunswick and Saskatchewan have controversially done.
Smith says she would run policy ideas by stakeholders and others outside her party base before deciding.That sighing you hear, largely concentrated in Edmonton, is from Alberta NDPers who sincerely hoped their rival would embrace those ideas or at least give them more oxygen, so they could more easily pillory Smith for pursuing what New Democrats would call radical and polarizing reforms.
"Regardless of how often the extreme left undermines the role of parents, I want you to know that parental rights and choice in your child's education is and will continue to be a fundamental core principle of this party and this government," Smith said. "And we will never apologize for it." She's spoken of personal convictions, having a non-binary relative and the pride she has in the fact a senior official with Alberta Justice is a trans woman. But with her party so clearly driven in one direction on this, she's opening the door to some kind of action.
Delegates cast their votes at the United Conservative Party annual general meeting in Calgary on Nov. 4.
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