I used to know Mark Dyrholm, though I haven't seen him in about 15 years - he was a pretty nice guy back then, but I never really pictured him as "future Premiere of Alberta". I'm not really keen on some of his policies, particularly on education and health care though. He's advocating more private/charter schools and more home schooling, while I'm a pretty strong supporter of making public education better instead. He also supports bringing things like homeopathy into the taxpayer-funded health care system (despite numerous studies showing it doesn't work any better than a placebo and the underlying principles being nonsense), while I'm an advocate of science-based health care, but I guess his beliefs are fairly typical for chiropractors.
Danielle Smith's policies on the whole seem more reasonable to me, but her website still doesn't have anything on some key issues (like education), but maybe that's because I'm on the whole probably a fiscal conservative (though less so than Dianielle) and social moderate. I don't think I'd agree with her on everything, but she seems like a more pallatable option than Dyrholm (or Stelmach or Swann for that matter).
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