I heard Smith on Rutherford this morning and she mentioned she read a tweet from a nurse who wished Danielle would be shot in a drive-by shooting and brought to her ward so that she could exercise her conscience and refuse to treat her.
Smith mentioned that conscience rights are probably off the table since professional medical associations have these already in place even though most people don't realize this.
She's learning from the climate change debacle and while she sticks to the science not being settled, she acknowledged the need to look at green technologies, ways of lower emissions, etc., etc., as a way of developing a more robust environmental policy.
The "firewall" stuff is probably off the table although it's up to the members to decide at the next AGM.
She still defended Huntsperger's right to say what he did in the role of a church pastor. She said more on this issue but I can't quote or paraphrase accurately. Unfortunately, she sees the separation of church and state as preventing the state from interfering in church affairs, rather than the other way around.
As to Slava's question, she said that the five pledges are pretty much the starting point. Those aren't going anywhere but likely will be tweaked.
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