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Letter: Danielle Smith – Unbelievable explanations of grossly bad ideas
By Letter to the Editor on September 2, 2025.
Dear editor, On Aug. 1, with minimal announcement, the Alberta government enacted new rules ending public disclosure requirements for the premier, cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and for all their staff, all of whom were no longer required to publicly post receipts for their expenses over $100. Also, the UCP removed from public view eight years of expense receipts. By Aug. 21, after receiving significant criticism, Ms. Smith and her government reversed the Aug. 1 changes. Their secretive, opaque policy on publicizing expenses was objectionable because taxpayers have a right to know, but what was worse and unbelievable was her sad, sorry explanation of how the little-publicized changes came about. She told us she was unaware of the Aug. 1 changes, and that they happened because “something got lost in translation.” What? Translation from what? To what? How could she be unaware of the changes if she knows “something got lost in translation”? Her evasive denial of responsibility is an insult to Albertans because of its evasiveness and because of its simple unbelievability. We have seen Ms. Smith’s floundering and unbelievable denial tactics before. About two and a half years ago she and the UCP were heavily criticized for a blatantly foolish part of her Sovereignty Act. That part was going to overrule court decisions, then, it wasn’t, then she and her cabinet could re-write Alberta laws with no involvement of the legislature, then that wholly undemocratic provision was removed, but, when asked about that provision, she told Albertans she “didn’t know how that got there.” Neither Ms. Smith nor the UCP have any sense of shame, for if they had such sense, they would never attempt such folly. Also, stay tuned because in the coming months, Ms. Smith will be offering another unbelievable explanation of why you must pay hundreds of millions of dollars to settle with the international coal companies, to whom the UCP disgustingly gave away our Grassy Mountain and Eastern Slopes. Gregory R. Côté Irvine 12-11
Yet look how many ignorant rural Albertan support them.
An 86 year old man from Germany, who was a former university professor, said it best in 2003 and I haven’t forgotten his words. 66% of all populations in the world are made up of easy to fool people and you can’t change them. It’s why dictators become so powerful and why their leadership’s usually end in bloody violence.
How else can you explain why rural Albertans would allow these Reformers, to let the oil industry pollute their farmland with abandoned oil wells and give them one of the highest costs of living in Canada yet they can’t re-elect them fast enough and believe every lie they feed them, where is the intelligence in that?
Ignoring the financial disaster they are creating for our children and their’s doesn’t make them look very smart, does it?
Now she has promised to round up foreigners and deport them like her pal Donald Trump is doing and wants to give us new plastic healthcare cards. The big question is “ Do you trust her not to have micro chips in them to track if you are supporting her or not?