Alberta Premier Danielle Smith no longer dominates the list of craziest conservatives in the imagination of other Canadians. There’s a new contender, Premier Scott Moe of Saskatchewan, who is now scaring and upsetting many residents of Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and the Maritimes with his refusal to collect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax on home heating and with his recent use of the notwithstanding clause to ensure parents know if their child is taking on a new sexual identity at school.
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I put this matter to you for two reasons. First, I’m curious about how it all will play out politically and, second, because it’s so unusual. I can’t recall a time when it came to pushing a conservative agenda that Alberta and its right-wing leaders were not at the front and centre of the debate.
Did anyone expect that Smith — the raucous Wildroser, the fearless, even reckless radio talk show host, the vaccine-hesitating, Truckers Convoy-boosting, sovereignty act-thumping and Canadian Pension Plan-denouncing leader of Alberta’s conservative movement — would ever shy away from being the most outspoken conservative political leader in Canada?
But that’s........