Canadian Federal Election

[ssiguy]

One of the biggest nooses around PP's neck is Danielle Smith. Many say that she doesn't realize what damage she is causing to the Tory campaign but I think the exact opposite, she knows how much damage she is causing PP and is loving every minute of it.

Smith has always been a closet separatist and now she is coming out of said closet as her recent actions have shown. She has set out some hard policies that must be implemented or, as she herself has stated, "it would cause a national unity crisis". She knows that a Carney gov't maybe receptive to some of her ideas but not all and she has made it clear that all of her demands are non-negotiable.

A Carney gov't would play exceptionally well into her Alberta-Ottawa battle and she would show it as yet another example of why Alberta needs to go it alone. This is made much worse by a decade of Trudeau. Conversely a PP gov't would make such arguments far less potent.

Smith can be accused of a lot of things but being politically unsavvy isn't one of them. She knows EXACTLY what she is doing.........she is on Team Red and is eager for a Carney win and especially a majority one. As far as PP is concerned, Smith considers him nothing more than collateral damage.