Is Alberta really that smart by voting in UCP?
By Lethbridge Herald on March 6, 2026.
Editor,
Mr. Ken Moore comments regarding the current Government in the March 4th edition of the Herald were spot on, and I totally agreed with his column until I got to the end of his column when he stated that Albertans are smarter than this. To that I would say “are they really?”. Lets just deal with the current Premier, Danielle Smith, she once argued that the risk of getting cancer from smoking cigarettes was grossly exaggerated by health experts and that smoking had special health benefits. She is a separatist , she is anti vaccines, she is in favour of private health care, she believes in the chemtrail conspiracy ,and on and on it goes. In 1999 Danielle Smith along with the entire Calgary Board of Education was fired by the Alberta Education Minister. She was considered a disruptive and right wing anti-establishment voice on the Board. Obviously Danielle Smith has not changed over the years. So back to Mr. Moore’s line “Albertans are smarter than this”. Since 1986 Albertans voted Conservative, not including the Lougheed years and the brief period of an NDP Government. You vote for the same gang and expect different results?, not that smart. So what have Albertans to show for?, well a day older and deeper in debt.
Barney Feenstra,
Lethbridge
5-4
I agree with Barney there is nothing smart about Albertans especially our seniors. I spent 32 years as a banker working in 16 different branches throughout Alberta and was the manager of 7 of them and the stupidity I have witnessed over the years brought on by these stupid seniors was sickening.
While they told me that it was wonderful how Klein was closing hospitals and cutting 5,000 nursing positions to save us billions of dollars they refused to believe the fact that he had destroyed Lougheed’s oil royalties and corporate taxes that would have easily paid for anything we needed, that’s how stupid they are. Members of Klein’s own family were so disgusted with him for what he was doing to Albertans they were urging Albertans to vote NDP and kick him out.
But these idiot seniors called him a hero. To stupid to realize he was putting their lies at risk. I knew of 8 deaths attributed to his health care cuts and one was almost my father after he had donated $30,000. to their party and spent countless hours volunteering for them.
A few years ago in Calgary in keeping with this Reform Party insanity of deliberately destroying everything Conservative Governments have created for the good of the people Pierre Poilievre was given a standing ovation by mainly seniors for promising to destroy the CBC and it’s 9,700 jobs if he was elected Prime Minister that’s how stupid these people are. If it doesn’t affect them they don’t give a damn about you, that’s their attitude and they show no respect for our children and grandchildren’s future. That’s how stupid they are, isn’t it.
Seniors who work the polling stations have told us repeatedly that the majority of the people they see voting are seniors and they are the ones keeping these Reformers in power, that’s how stupid they are.
It was seniors who voted for this Reform Party clown Poilievre in Calgary and showed the Conservatives in Ottawa no respect for having reasons to kick him out and people who were there were disgusted by the stupidity they witnessed, especially the ones who had relatives in Ottawa.
I was a card carrying Conservative for 31 years and made certain I attended as many of their functions as a I could especially after Klein was elected, having known him since were 17 years old and knowing what a jerk he was. The attendance was almost always 80 to 85% seniors and it was sickening watching these seniors believing every lie he fed them, giving him standing ovation after standing ovation proving how stupid they were, Klein loved how stupid they were, and nothing has changed they are still doing it and don’t give a damn about what it’s doing to this province while Alaskans and Norwegians are living like Kings.
Too stupid to realize what they could have had.