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http://www.calgaryherald.com/technol...469/story.html

“We have some soul-searching to do as a party,” she said Tuesday, a day after a provincial election defeat that saw the Wildrose almost shut out of the major cities and northern Alberta.

“Our members have now seen that some of our policies were rejected by Albertans, quite frankly,” she said in an interview Tuesday. “We will be revisiting some of those. You can't run a government if you don't get sanction from the people.”

Asked which policies in particular were up for debate, Smith mentioned the “Alberta Agenda” items that call for the province to establish its own pension plan and replace the RCMP with a provincial police force. Such ideas were touted by a group of conservative thinkers in a famous letter written a decade ago that called for Alberta to build a “firewall” – a term that was used by the PCs to attack the Wildrose during the campaign.

Smith also mentioned her party members' endorsement of conscience rights, which would allow a marriage commissioner refusing to perform a same-sex marriage, or a Catholic doctor to decline writing a prescription for birth control.

“There may also be a stronger statement to make about climate change and our policy around greenhouse gas emissions,” she said.