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Smith says that should Notley become the first premier to lose the job then regain it, Alberta will return to the dark days of 2015-2019. During that time low oil prices — coupled with tax hikes — knocked a staggering economy to the canvas, resulting in massive multibillion-dollar deficits and soaring debt.
Both leaders have pledged to preserve the publicly funded health system while creating more primary care teams — physicians accompanied by specialists such as nurses and therapists — so more Albertans are able to access a family doctor and not clog emergency wards for care. Smith has been dogged during the campaign by other past comments — comparing those who took the COVID-19 vaccine to credulous followers of Adolf Hitler — as well as a report that came out mid-campaign from the ethics commissioner. It concluded that Smith undermined the rule of law by pressuring her justice minister to end a criminal court case of a COVID-19 protester.Article content
It won government in 2015 aided substantially by vote splitting between the governing Progressive Conservatives and the Opposition Wildrose Party. The PCs and Wildrose joined forces to create the UCP in 2017 and under Jason Kenney captured 63 seats and a majority — over Notley’s 24 seats for the NDP — in 2019.
A loss by Smith and she arguably becomes the most influential Alberta conservative in the past 15 years — for the wrong reasons.
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