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Old 06-10-2016, 08:00 AM   #1709
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You know what though...Danielle Smith was actually right. IIRC when she pulled that move her point was that Alberta was facing a huge economic problem and rather than fight and argue we needed to band together and try to work towards solutions. I'm sure that I was among those who were happy to call her out as power hungry and things like that. I still entirely disagree with her floor crossing and related antics, but she did get the economic issue right.
If Smith and Anderson didn't sell their souls for cabinet seats under Prentice, Danielle would be premier today, with a large enough base of support to keep the fringes of the party on the fringe. She wasn't right, and she played a major role in creating the scenario that put the NDP in power.
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