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Originally Posted by corporatejay

If Danielle Smith is truly a social libertarian and a fiscal conservative she is definitely the candidate for me.

Can someone link me to anything she's written on social issues?

Some quick articles I could find.

Her socially conservative opponents call her a “social liberal” with laissez-faire attitudes toward abortion, gay marriage and drugs. “The other two candidates have continued to make those issues central to their campaigns,” says Smith. “I don’t think those are the issues people are talking about.”

http://www.daniellesmith.ca/?p=391

From Link Byfield....a self-labeled social conservative.

Danielle Smith is not a “social conservative,” she is a “libertarian.” She has been friendly to, and worked alongside, “social conservatives,” but has never been one.

Third, in the 12 years I have known her, Danielle has fought hard for basic civil rights – freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and religion, freedom of assembly and association, and security of property from government confiscation and devaluation. In various student and professional capacities she has spent her whole adult life advocating these things.


If we can restore these fundamental rights, all of which have been badly eroded by governments over time, we “social conservatives” will be politically far ahead of where we are today, and so will everyone else. So the question we must answer is not “which candidate has the right values” – they all do – but “which one can best connect with Albertans?”

http://www.westernstandard.ca/websit...d=3009&start=2