Smith’s Mar-A-Lago trip grounds for dismissal
By Lethbridge Herald on January 27, 2025.
Editor,
In the private sector, directors would be quite remiss if they did not press the CEO for polished contingency plans on the largest risks facing the organization. Competent CEOs do not complain about the myriad of problems which they face, they do not blame others for poor performance, the directors are only interested in results. Either the CEO can perform, or they cannot. In the immortal words of Yoda, “Do…or do not. There is no try.”
Politics provides a veneer of business ability for regular folks winning office, as they are usually supported by a great cast of professionally prepared and well-seasoned civil servants. But when those civil servants are dismissed or ignored by populist politicians pretending to be something which they clearly are not, their constituency ends up in deep trouble. Because of her ego supported only by her incompetence, Danielle Smith has developed no contingency plans to deal with the huge risk presented by relying so heavily on oil exports to one customer, the U.S. Smith is obviously not a professional CEO, but if she were, she would be terminated with cause for her fawning trip to Mar-a-Lago.
Smith has spent a lifetime fixing the blame rather than fixing the problem. It’s all somebody else’s fault. And so we Albertans have to live with sub-standard health care, horrid environmental decisions, a mis- managed budget, outright falsehoods respecting the Alberta Pension Plan and now, worst of all, the undermining of our collective defence against Trump’s stated plan to annex and acquire Canada using economic force. Stephen Harper said on January 13 that Trump’s threats and complaints are not the words of a friend, a partner or an ally. So make no mistake, Trump’s actions, especially with Danielle Smith’s assistance, constitute an event casus belli to justify war. For her role in this ill-advised appeasement effort, in opposition to her own country and fellow premiers, she will be forever remembered as Canada’s Neville Chamberlain.
Smith has no mandate to negotiate the sovereignty of our country but she does have a place as Alberta’s premier in preparing and supporting a robust joint national economic response to this existential threat. Accordingly her role in undermining our country’s collective effort to repel the attack cannot be ignored. The only reason for allowing her back into Canada after her junket to Florida is that it will avoid extradition in assessing the legality of her actions when her allegiance is measured against Section 46 of the Criminal Code to ascertain if it meets the standards of high treason.
Finally fellow Albertans, stand up for Canada. Without it, Alberta does not exist.
David B. Carpenter
Lethbridge
9-8
Lock her up!
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Geez, a little over the top Dave.
Hey buckwheat, here’s a suggestion: rather than offer up a vacuous comment, why don’t you spell out why you think this letter is “a little over the top?”
Well said David. She continues to racket up debt for our children’s future and unlike a true Conservative doesn’t care. We are told her latest stupidity has added $250,000. U.S. to our $85 billion debt. Didn’t Allison Redford get kicked out for her waste of taxpayers money.
And David didn’t even mention the provincial task force report on Covid that the president of the Alberta Medical Association calls “anti-science and anti-evidence”. That if implemented will cause real harm.
When will this clown show end ?
It won’t as long as you get idiotic seniors supporting it. They outnumber us two to one.
Or the $75 million she wasted on the buying children’s cold medicine from Turkey while trying to outsmart Trudeau, and gods knows what she has wasted on Jim Dinning trying to steal our Canada Pension Plan.
Our premier got just the report she wanted, and our dime.