This Canadian Governor plays a “good policeman” with Trump

Canada also wears through one of the most periods in its history towards April 28 Federal electionsThere is a name that is not in voting but in the minds of people: Daniel Smith.

Mrs. Smith, Prime Minister of Alberta, often referred to, is called Texas in Canada because of oil, its farms, and the policy of the province, as “divisive” by alike and critics alike: people love it, people love it, and people love to hate it.

It is a non -apology governorate aligned from Maga, which collected Canadians throughout the country by talking wonderfully about President Trump and focusing on the wealth of its boycott, especially its oil exports, even with the American administration channel in Canada.

Mrs. Smith, 54, was a leader over the past two and a half years, after spending the past two decades dipped and exit from politics.

“I still shot,” I laughed in an interview with the New York Times in Calgary, Alberta, in February.

She also worked as an economist, pressure association and a radio hostess to display famous calls, as she sharpened her firm, non -opposite style, but sharply.

It is the closest to the movement of the province in Canada on the ally of Maga-and its two sons, Mar Lago filming With Mr. Trump to prove this.

When Mr. Trump began to say he wanted to make Canada the state 51, before it opened, Mrs. Smith visited him in Florida.

Even before the re -election of Mr. Trump, Mrs. Smith was a key to shaping the development of the broader conservative movement in Canada. Critics say they have moved ideological minorities, including the anti -bachelor’s organizations, separatist defenders in Albertan and anti -convenient activists, to secure their election.

She was eager to make these groups feel listed on their agenda with no fully supported her speech.

This ability, in addition to the political freedom that its lack of interest in the national position, put it at the forefront of the right to change the right of Canada.

In recent months, Mrs. Smith has defended her pro -Trump’s initiatives as a diplomatic approach that complements the most aggressive position taken by the federal government.

Simply put, she said about Trump’s relationships, “I am happy to be a good policeman.”

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Mrs. Smith’s approach is more supported by Mr. Trump.

It is also driven by its extraordinary interruption with the United States and the rest of Canada.

“We have helped the Americans build our largest industries, our livestock and our oil and gas industry,” she added in her office in Calgary.

Mrs. Smith has rehabilitated her support for Mr. Trump by saying that she does not support his definitions on Canada.

“I think it will harm them – will harm us – but I think we may be able to work on our way through it,” she said.

She had to respond to criticism and calibration of her enthusiasm in the context of Mr. Trump’s call to annex Canada – “this will not happen,” she said – and forgive him on Canadian goods, including Alberta oil, which is almost heading to the United States and is subject to a survey of 10 percent (although there is a volume to avoid this transfer at a later time).

But she was generally scheduled for Mr. Trump, smarter on her visit in January to Mar Lago in Florida, where DJ saw him on the iPad and held a stadium after a golf game.

Return of children

She added, like Mr. Trump, has a story of her own return.

More than a decade ago, Mrs. Smith was leading a small right -wing party in Alberta when she decided to join the Grand Conservative Party in the provinces, a step anger at her former colleagues but defended an effort to unite the province’s governors.

High risk move. Mrs. Smith was not chosen by the party to be a candidate for its electoral area and left politics for years.

In 2022, she returned back, won her attempt to lead the United Conservative Party in Alberta and then regional elections to become the Prime Minister.

To win, I followed the opposite approach with the approach that I tried a decade ago: instead of reaching the center, it led the party’s expansion to the right. She got the support of liberal popular roots organizations, including a group of prominent citizens organized around the Al -Qazam Wilayat, as well as a movement seeking to independence Albertin from the rest of Canada.

Albertan independence, in fact, will become a remarkable question.

Western promises

Mrs. Smith sought to use the issue of Alberta’s relationship with the rest of Canada for her political benefit.

Many Albertanis – not only people who support independence – say that energy wealth in their boycott is exploited by a federal government that takes revenues from them to the poor parts of the country.

They flow against Ottawa to introduce climate policies that limit the boycott ability to extract and sell energy products.

In response to an explicit question whether she supports Alberta’s division far away, Ms. Smith said: “We must return to what the constitution says,” referring to the federal system in Canada, where the provinces enjoy the authority to manage many important areas of politics. “The constitution gives us areas with exclusive jurisdiction that the federal government continues to invade and try to undermine it.”

Difference advocates, in Mrs. Smith, sees an ally. Her chief is a co -author of a decisive document, Alberta Free StrategyWhich puts the cause of independence.

Another author, Barry Cooper, who is studying political science at Calgary University, said she is making the correct noise. “I think it can offer our place inside the union,” he said.

Historically, separatism “was a mere concept related to Alberta,” is still the sight of the minority, though a A recent poll from the Angus Reed Institute The aforementioned support can grow if the liberal party wins the upcoming federal elections.

Mrs. Smith pledged to explore the idea of ​​independence referendum after these elections and threatened to rupture with the federal government to obtain concessions.

Last month, after interviewing the Prime Minister Mark CarneyThe liberal leader said in the elections, that she “presented a specific list of demands for the next Prime Minister, regardless of who, must be treated during the first six months of his term to avoid the unprecedented national unity crisis.”

The demands included many policies to support the energy sector in the province.

Blessing and curse

Mrs. Smith plays a major role in filling in support to the federal conservative leader, to forbidWho competes to become the next Prime Minister in the country, she was also born in Alberta.

Together, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Bouleevri defines a trademark from the Canadian governorate that focuses on culture issues, which limits the role of the government in public and private life, and the elite control approach against the Canada administration. If Mr. Poilievre loses elections, this vision may be in danger.

Supporting both politicians is the so -called Freedom convoyIt is a movement with a strong attractiveness in Alberta that began as a protest against the Covid vaccine for truck drivers, and was directed in other groups, and turned into violence in places and paralyzed the country’s capital for weeks.

But the embrace of Mrs. Smith can be a double -edged sword, and Mr. Poilievre discovers.

in Prayed interview Last month, she said that Mr. Poilievre was “simultaneously” with Mr. Trump and that she asked the White House “to put things to stop” – referring to the hostile climate between the two countries – until the elections.

Critics said that her statements were a call to Washington to interfere in the Canadian elections in favor of Mr. Polilifer, who resembles his combat style similar to Mr. Trump. Mr. Poilievre witnessed his progress, which was once on the liberals, evaporating in the period before the vote, in part due to the fact that many Canadians now consider Mr. Trump a major threat.

But Mrs. Smith was, once again, not apologize, she insisted that she was trying to do what is better for Canada, not just for Mr. Bolilifer.

Right

With Mr. Trump in the Oval Office, Mrs. Smith appears to feel that, finally, she wins her ideological side.

It is pleased to attack Mr. Trump on what she calls “waking up”.

But the field of policy in which Mr. Trump’s movement is more clear is health. In fact, Ms. Smith says that Alberta is driving the road.

She added, “We were at the front end to protect the selection of children through the transit policy changes that we have made,” in reference to Alberta’s passers -by that limits access to confirmed gender medical interventions for minors and other policies targeting sexually transformed children.

Mrs. Smith opposed any mandatory vaccination, despite the outbreak of measles in Canada and the United States.

“Parents are very special. They are able to know the best vaccines for their children.”

Call

While Mrs. Smith was at the forefront of political discussions in the country, she still looks more comfortable in Alberta Radio waves.

It takes questions from Albertez in a regular call program entitled “Your boycott. Your Prime Minister”.

It listens with interest and provides a smiling response, regardless of the subject, makes the caller feel a gear as if they were making a really good point, no matter how unreasonable.

She is attributed to her years as a radio host to contact to learn to listen to everyone, and it is a quality that makes her loved, as she waives some of her most cruel critics.

She said, “I just prefer to hear people; it’s a nice and polite thing.