Danielle Smith is new UCP leader -- and Alberta's next premier

Danielle Smith is new UCP leader — and Alberta's next premier


Nearly four months after the leadership contest began, Smith emerges the victor

Janet French · CBC News · Posted: Oct 06, 2022 2:00 AM MT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

New United Conservative Party leader announced

2 hours ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/united-conservative-party-to-announce-new-leader-1.6606261

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Danielle Smith has been chosen the new leader of Alberta's governing United Conservative Party after capturing 53.8 per cent of votes on the sixth ballot. 

In her speech to the hundreds of members at the BMO Centre in Calgary, Smith said her victory marks the start of a new chapter in a "great Alberta story." 

"It is time for Alberta to take its place as a senior partner in building a strong and unified Canada," she said to loud cheers. 

"No longer will Alberta ask permission from Ottawa to be prosperous and free. We will not have our voices silenced or censored. We will not be told what we must put in our bodies in order that we may work or travel.

"We will not have our resources landlocked or our energy phased out of existence by virtue-signaling prime ministers.
Albertans, not Ottawa, will chart our own destiny on our terms, and will work with our fellow Canadians to build the most free and prosperous country on earth."

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She's going to go right to passing an Alberta Soverenty Act.