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https://calgarysun.com/opinion/colum...e-of-the-beans

Before going on, some souls are curious about whether Premier Danielle Smith is somehow caught in the web of this story.

Smith’s people say she knew nothing.

She wasn’t aware of the plot to run Nenshi out of office. She didn’t know Wallace.

She didn’t know anything about an Operation Peacock.

She had no idea anybody wanted her to be the so-called “friendly media,” who would break the story of the Nenshi entrapment.

Smith’s people say the premier is learning the ins and outs of this tale along with the rest of us.

Wallace says the only time he met Smith was the first day he was in Calgary and he met up with Joe Magliocca, then a Calgary city councillor.

It was in front of Cowboys.

Smith was there and Magliocca briefly said: “Hi, Danielle. This is the guy we’re bringing in for Peacock.”

It was a 10-second encounter.

Question. Did Smith have any connection to the scheme?

“No,” says Wallace. But …

“She was going to be the friendly media that broke whatever entrapment I could get on Nenshi and leak it on the radio.”

At the time, Smith was a radio talk-show host