Danielle Smith can’t — or won’t — face the debts of tomorrow

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Elections are no time to discuss serious issues, as Kim Campbell once said, and the most recent Alberta one was no different. At a time when the ever-accelerating energy transition demanded a serious conversation about the province’s future, Albertans instead got a personality-driven campaign that focused far more on past missteps than any plans the two sides had for the future.

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Elections are no time to discuss serious issues, as Kim Campbell once said, and the most recent Alberta one was no different. At a time when the ever-accelerating energy transition demanded a serious conversation about the province’s future, Albertans instead got a personality-driven campaign that focused far more on past missteps than any plans the two sides had for the future.

That future is coming more quickly than most people in Alberta would like to admit.

What, if anything, can the province do to prepare for the tsunami of change that’s headed its way? Those are the questions our political and thought leaders should be asking. Instead, they seem more focused on pretending that tsunami doesn’t even exist or finding a way to blame the federal government for its impacts.

To read more of this column first published by Canada’s National Observer, click here.

UCP Leader Danielle Smith makes her victory speech in Calgary on Monday May 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
UCP Leader Danielle Smith makes her victory speech in Calgary on Monday May 29, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

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