I have some very good news for you, Danielle Smith: over here in Toronto, the centre of the universe, your recent legislation — the Alberta sovereignty within a united Canada act — is being rebuked, dismissed and ridiculed.
In the Toronto Star — that fountain of sensitivity and social justice — Toronto-based columnist Andrew Phillips suggested that you look like you’re “flailing around like a bad drunk in a bar,” and that your bill “isn’t a serious law.”
This is the language of raw insult, normally reserved for the darker sewers of anonymous Twitter postings. But what you must understand, Premier Smith, is that you are the Premier of Alberta, a province of rednecks, truck drivers and oil workers (all most unsavoury types) and as seen from the cloud-capping top of the CN Tower, Alberta is an outland of rustic hicks — and thereby the approved target of rude language and calculated insults.
