As wildfires upend Alberta election campaign, here’s where the race stands
, has also suspended some campaign events and even offered to help Smith, pointing to her own experience as premier during the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016.The West Block“It’s definitely an important story,” she said, “but when it comes to dealing with these fires, the premier is really a figurehead.
“The premier kind of stumbled off the blocks on this one,” said former Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi, who during his time in office had to navigate the emergency responses and recovery efforts during the devastating 2013 floods that hit Calgary and southern Alberta. Nenshi also criticized Smith for continuing to attend fundraisers while tens of thousands of Albertans were being evacuated from their communities due to the wildfire risk.“Unfortunately, a lot of what I’m hearing from the affected areas is that people are actually very frustrated with the government response, which surprised me,” he said.
Those developments include resurfaced comments Smith made as a podcaster during the COVID-19 pandemic before she re-entered politics, when she compared vaccinated people to supporters of the Nazi regime and said she would not wear a poppy for Remembrance Day to protest government mandates.Smith has explained away the comments by saying she had “frustrations” during the “dark days” of the pandemic and that she shouldn’t have let those frustrations get to her.
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