Alberta Premier Danielle Smith talks about a made-in-Alberta immigration system and it's got some rules

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When you ask about immigration, Premier Danielle Smith has no time to dance around the elephant in the room.

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Smith warms up with what some of you have heard before. But this time it is just the beginning.

The Alberta premier reminds us after COVID the Liberal government in Ottawa let too many people into this country too fast.

“They didn’t ask anyone. They didn’t ask the public. They didn’t ask the provinces,” says Smith.

And what did we get? In Smith’s mind it is clear, pressure on health care and schools and housing prices and rental rates and food prices and the job market.

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