Carpenter letter hit the nail on the head
By Lethbridge Herald on February 26, 2025.
Editor,
Once again, David Carpenter has provided the residents of Alberta with a thoughtful, factual response to a very important issue: Premier Smith’s trip to Florida to lobby Mr. Trump for Alberta’s fossil fuel industry. A premier trying to directly negotiate with a U.S. president is a flagrant disregard of federal/provincial jurisdiction.
Ms. Smith is the premier of the province of Alberta, not the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. In choosing to meet with the now-president, she stepped way outside of her purview. When Ms. Smith perceives the federal government stepping, even slightly, into provincial jurisdiction, she has an immediate and inflammatory response. Yet, she seems to think that she can step into federal jurisdiction whenever she wants to. She failed to attend the meeting which every other Canadian premier attended to discuss and agree to a strong strategy for dealing with the new US administration. In doing so, Ms. Smith has betrayed Canada, the other premiers, all Canadians, and weakened Canada’s ability to negotiate for all Canadians with the new US regime.
We would like to see Ms. Smith’s actions fully investigated by the appropriate authorities, including her own party. Given her inappropriate actions by putting her own interests and that of the UCP ahead of the interest of Canada and all Canadians, she needs to resign.
Nikki and George Crisfield
Lethbridge
7-6
To Nikki and George you can obviously understand what these Reformers are doing to us.
Those of us from the world of finance estimate that Albertans have been cheated out of $1.2 Trillion by these Reformers, starting with Ralph Klein helping the rich steal our Oil and Corporate Tax wealth. I think you can bet that Smith has made backroom deals with Trump to screw us out of Billions more.
Isn’t ironic that right after her visits Trump has brought the Keystone XL Pipeline back to the table, and the big question is what is she prepared to screw Albertans out of this time? She knows we are broke and if she can’t steal our Canada Pension Plan she wants to help Trump steal our oil, what do you think?
Are you going to try to help us put a stop to this insanity for our children’ sake or are you going to let her do like so many fellow seniors are doing?
25 % tarriffs , 10% on oil. Thanks Danielle Smith for stepping to the plate when lame duck Turdo was probably doing important diplomatic work , like pushing tampons for Ukraine soldiers. The Ukrainian male soldiers that is.
Surely you can come up with a more juvenile comment than this …but I doubt it.
Don’t underestimate Old School! I was impressed that he spelled all of the monosyllabic words correctly.
It’s all they have. Nothing they say makes sense.