What Danielle Smith Said...

aka the scandal of our time (this week)

Alberta’s new Premier Danielle Smith is in hot water. Here’s what she said:

The community that faced the most restrictions on their freedoms in the last year were those who made a choice not to be vaccinated. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a situation in my lifetime where a person was fired from their job or not allowed to watch their kids play hockey or not allowed to visit a loved one in long-term care or hospice, or not allowed to go on a plane to either go across the country to see family or even travel across the border. So they have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime. That’s a pretty extreme level of discrimination that we have seen.

I don’t take away any of the discrimination I’ve seen in any of those groups that you mention, but this has been an extraordinary time in the last year in particular and I want people to know that I find that unacceptable. We are not going to create a segregated society on the basis of a medical choice.

The Post Millennial @TPostMillennial

Alberta’s new Premier Danielle Smith on the unvaccinated: “They have been the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime.”

That, apparently, was enough to fuel outrage across mainstream and social media.

Here is one of the headlines (which seems to have since been deleted… at least I can’t find it)…

🇨🇦 The Ferryman's Toll 🇳🇱 @ferryman4747

"She basically claimed that the unvaccinated are people with rights... We haven't seen hate like this in Canada for decades" said antihate experts. #AbLeg #DanielleSmith #Alberta

Conrad Nobert can’t remember anything more offensive from a Canadian official in his lifetime.

Conrad Nobert @conradnobert

I can't remember a Canadian official ever saying anything more offensive in my entire lifetime than what Danielle Smith just said.

Really?

Prairie Rose @Prairie29594275

@CTVNews "Do we tolerate these people?" Justin Trudeau #Discrimination

Spencer Fernando has a different perspective:

After new Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said unvaccinated people faced the most discrimination of any group she has seen in her lifetime, the opinion gatekeepers came out of the woodwork to denounce her remarks.

She was predictably attacked as a ‘racist’ and all the other insults the left loves to throw at people in an attempt to get them to back down.

The fact is, Danielle Smith is correct. It is abundantly clear that unvaccinated Canadians faced the most direct and relentless state-sponsored discrimination of any group in recent Canadian history.

Unvaccinated Canadians were banned from travel, often banned from workplaces, banned from seeing their families, and more. The politicians who imposed those policies knew they were wrong, as evidenced by Justin Trudeau previously speaking out against vaccine mandates before imposing them when he feared losing an election.

Here’s a sampling of some of the ways other’s interpreted her remarks…

Birgit Uwaila Umaigba 🇳🇬 @birgitomo

It is my hope that all of Canada is waking up to condemn Danielle Smith's very privileged definition of discrimination. This white privileged Premier of Alberta has no clue what it means to be discriminated against.

Janis Irwin @JanisIrwin

Danielle Smith has shown us who she is. Call her hate out, absolutely. But then take that energy and use it for good. I’m spending my day in meetings with community. Later, I’m knocking on doors. There’s much to fight against. Let’s fight *for* the Alberta we know is possible.

Naheed Dosani @NaheedD

So...Danielle Smith thinks unvaccinated people are the most discriminated against group she's ever seen. Someone please tell her about: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women. Residential Schools. Systemic racism. Genocide. This is what discrimination actually looks like.

Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean

The media will talk about Danielle Smith for the next week. They don't want you knowing about the TrudeauTrial.com that is taking place in Ottawa tomorrow.

Cartesian Duelist @CartesnDuelist

Wow I can't believe Danielle Smith dared say the unvaccinated were discriminated against. It's like she thinks they were denied job opportunities, put into financial destitution, barred from public places, and a had a war measures act put against them.

Theo Fleury @TheoFleury14

The fact that no MSM or politicians are talking about Pfizer today and talking only about Danielle Smith is an absolute disgrace of how much the whole lot of them media/politicians are in on this scamdemic. Easy to put the puzzle together. They are using you.

Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland

Say what you will about Danielle Smith, but I actually learn a lot from her. For example, I had no idea that you could sleep through every science AND history lesson since third grade and still become premier.

Joe Blo @NormalGuy223

Danielle Smith thinks all people should be treated equally regardless of their medical status....and according to the left, this makes her a white supremacist. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

James M. @jmclennan8

Interesting local poll. Looks like some people quietly agree Danielle Smith in the Okanagan.

I imagine she saw this coming… Here she is talking about hate speech in 2019.

I’ve been involved in conservative politics for a long, long time, and I remember all the way back when I was a kid, going to rallies, when Stockwell Day for example was leader at the federal level…and the outside protester’s chants were “racist, sexist, anti-gay, Stockwell Day, go away.”

It continues to be the mantra, I think, of people who don’t want to talk about their record. I think what we’re seeing is they take statements out of context that sound a little bit on the edge and then turn it into a full-blown scandal.

I guess the little bit on the edge part was the use of superlatives? Maybe Smith should have qualified discrimination against the unvaccinated as “the most government-endorsed, culturally accepted discrimination” she has witnessed in her lifetime.

I kind of wish she had said it that way. I’d be curious to see the tweets.

Meanwhile, according to True North, “A Danielle Smith government would amend the Alberta Human Rights Act to prohibit employers from firing employees based on their vaccination status.”

I really hope this happens. When it does, I wonder how that will be framed as a hate crime in Canada. Trudeau will probably find a way.

In the meantime, I’m thinking this…

Cory Morgan @CoryBMorgan

Legacy media outlets are almost universally lined up against Danielle Smith. That is a great endorsement.