Letter: An open letter to Premier Danielle Smith from a Medicine Hatter…
By Letter to the Editor on March 27, 2025.
Dear editor, An open letter to Premier Danielle Smith, Please understand that you do not speak for me, nor do you speak for as many Albertans as you claim. You merely speak for those who belong to your party, the UCP. In the last election over 45% of Albertan voters did not mark their ballots for your party – your views represent those of the UCP and no one else. Stop using tax dollars to attend right-wing, avowedly religious meetings in the U.S. Stop using tax dollars to visit Trump’s Mar-A-Lago hideout to express, on bended knee, fealty to him and his MAGA cronies. Stop allowing allegedly bankrupt oil companies to deprive Albertas’s local governments of the monies owed to them for abandoning wells in their jurisdictions. Stop creating medical situations where we must wait for 2-plus hours for blood x-rays and other medical tests. Stop saying all Albertans support “Axe the Tax” when many of us want carbon levies to continue for major industrial emitters. Stop saying Canada faces a crisis when we have rarely been as united, as proud and as supportive of our sovereign nation than ever before. Stop being a single divisive premier when all twelve others vociferously support “Team Canada” positions. Stop trying to play federal politics. Stop persecuting Alberta’s LGBTQ+ community – many of us support both their situations and plight that has arisen because of you and your UCP comrades. Stop trying to prevent Canadians from doing something – anything – about global climatic change. Stop trying to impede efforts by the federal government that would ultimately prevent new trade agreements with supporting European nations, since many of them consider carbon levies on industrial emitters as essential and would break off trade negotiations if we “axe that tax.” Stop snuggling up to Trump. Stop trying to promote Poilievre for prime minister. You are a provincial representative, not a federal one. Let us decide who we want for PM. And finally, please stop being premier of our province – but never mind that, hopefully you will be forced to do that next provincial election. Ben Moffat Medicine Hat 20-19
Well said Ben! Hopefully most Albertans have finally seen her and the entire UCP for who they really are and what they really stand for. I truly believe most Albertans do not agree with the direction she is taking Alberta and I hope they have the courage to vote her out. Since Danielle Smith has been our Premier she has not done even one thing to make life better for Albertans, NOT ONE THING! Alberta cannot and will not get any better under this UCP government and I shudder to think how much worse things will actually get over the next few years.
What has us true conservatives furious is the fact that we knew what she stood for and many of our fellow seniors wouldn’t listen to us and supported her anyway. Now they wish they hadn’t. Now it’s too late.
The American Oilmen working in Alberta that I was involved with called Albertans the dumbest people on the planet for letting Ralph Klein destroy Lougheed’s oil royalty and corporate tax structures, putting us in financial ruin, and now we estimate that Albertans have lost $1.2 Trillion, leaving us in a “Horrific Financial Mess” as Lougheed called it.
Whether they like it or not my senior friends and I all in our 80s, and 90s blame our fellow seniors for blindly supporting these Reformers and believing every lie they feed them. The lack of respect they have shown our children is disgusting, isn’t it?
I agree with you.
Ok Ben, if you say so. Maybe Looney Nenshi will be your man. He did so well for Calgary. And Ben, you do not speak for the majority of Albertan’s. You lost the election. Get over it.
The true Conservatives in my world know that Looney Nenshi is a lot smarter than any of these Reformers you support . Why did he get three terms in office?
Are you going to ignore the horrific financial mess they have created for our children and grandchildren to face, or let coal mining destroy our water supply. How about ignoring what Global Warming is doing to the planet and showing our children no respect for what it could do to their future? Those of us who had ties to the oil industry know why conservatives help create the Carbon Tax and aren’t dumb enough to believe the lies of these Reformers feed us , so why do you???
Is it something to be proud of having the UCP carry on with the fiscal ineptitude and poor planning that the Alberta PCs did, ever since Peter Lougheed was no longer the premier of Alberta? So far, the UCP have made well over $80 billion in very costly debacles and mistakes, and the UCP have also treated the vulnerable, seniors, medical professionals, teachers, students, rural property owners, the environment and democracy in Alberta with disdain.
What is so disgusting Dwayne is the fact that this $260 Billion oil well cleanup is becoming a $500 Billion problem and these Reformers and the fools who support them don’t care. Maybe they should read this article:
“Number of orphan oil well will soon double in Alberta if controversial oil patch bankruptcy settled”
Why was the system allowed to be changed by Ralph Klein and the cost dumped onto the backs of our children . Lougheed and Getty were making certain the oil industry was paying for the cleanup. I know I was involved.
Our children have no hope of paying it.
Make certain you all Google “Alberta Politics “ and read how these Reformers Danielle Smith and Preston Manning have threatened eastern Canadians with how Alberta will destroy them if they don’t elect their pal Pierre Poilievre. They are hellbent on getting him elected so they can destroy our Public Healthcare System like their pal Stephen Harper tried to do and Trudeau was elected. That’s how stupid they are. I bet that’s the end of Poilievre and his support of Donald Trump, don’t you?