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Marlaina Danielle Smith

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The Honourable

Marlaina Danielle Smith

MLA
Smith in 2014
19th Premier of Alberta
Assumed office
October 11, 2022
MonarchCharles III
Lieutenant GovernorSalma Lakhani
Deputy
Preceded byJason Kenney
Leader of the United Conservative Party
Assumed office
October 6, 2022
Preceded byJason Kenney
Leader of the Opposition in Alberta
In office
April 24, 2012 – December 17, 2014
PremierAlison Redford
Dave Hancock
Jim Prentice
DeputyRob Anderson
Preceded byRaj Sherman
Succeeded byHeather Forsyth
Leader of the Wildrose Party
In office
October 17, 2009 – December 17, 2014
DeputyRob Anderson
Preceded byPaul Hinman
Succeeded byHeather Forsyth (interim)
Parliamentary constituencies
Member of the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Assumed office
November 8, 2022
Preceded byMichaela Frey
ConstituencyBrooks-Medicine Hat
In office
April 23, 2012 – May 5, 2015
Preceded byGeorge Groeneveld
Succeeded byWayne Anderson
ConstituencyHighwood
Personal details
Born
Marlaina Danielle Smith

(1971-04-01) April 1, 1971 (age 53)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada[1]
Political partyUnited Conservative (since 2017)
Other political
affiliations		Progressive Conservative (1998–2009; 2014–2017)
Wildrose (2009–2014)
Spouse(s)
  • Sean McKinsley
    (Undated.divorced)
  • David Moretta (m. 2006)
    [2]
ResidenceHigh River, Alberta, Canada
Alma materUniversity of Calgary
Occupation
  • Politician
  • journalist
Websitewww.daniellesmith.ca

Marlaina Danielle Smith MLA (born April 1, 1971) is a Canadian politician, former lobbyist, and former columnist and AM radio talk show host who has been serving as the 19th premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP) since October 2022.

Marlaina Danielle Smith attended the University of Calgary and earned degrees in English and economics. After briefly serving as a trustee for the Calgary Board of Education, they worked as a journalist in print, radio and television, during which they shared opinions on politics and healthcare. During this time they also worked as the director of provincial affairs for Alberta with the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. They entered provincial politics in 2009, becoming the leader of the Wildrose Party. Smith contributed to the growth of the party; the party formed the Official Opposition after the 2012 election. Marlaina Smith won a seat in the Legislative Assembly for Highwood in that election, and served as leader of the Opposition until 2014, when they resigned to join the governing Progressive Conservatives (PCs). Smith was defeated in their bid for the PC nomination in Highwood for the 2015 election.

Between 2015 and 2022, Marlaina Smith worked in talk radio and served as the president of the Alberta Enterprise Group. Upon Premier Jason Kenney's resignation announcement on May 18, 2022, Marlaina Smith announced their campaign in the United Conservative Party leadership election. Marlaina Smith's campaign gained national attention, particularly due to their proposals to extend Albertan autonomy. On October 6, Marlaina Smith won the leadership on the sixth count. Smith was sworn in as premier on October 11 and became MLA for Brooks-Medicine Hat on November 8, 2022. Marlaina Smith led the UCP to re-election as a majority government in the 2023 general election.

Early life[edit]

Marlaina Danielle Smith[3] was born in Calgary[citation needed] on April 1, 1971,[4] and is the second of five children. Marlaina Smith's father Doug Smith, is an oilfield consultant and previously a board member for the Wildrose Party.[5] Marlaina Smith is named after the song Marlena by The Four Seasons.[6]

Growing up, Marlaina's family lived in subsidized housing.[7] As a student Marlaina Danielle Smith worked at McDonald's, at a bingo parlour and at restaurants bussing tables.[6]

Marlaina Smith described their parents as "reliably conservative" in an interview with the National Post. When Marlaina Smith was a grade 8 student, Smith said they came home praising a teacher who spoke positively about communism. Marlaina Smith said they had family in Ukraine, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time, and their father argued otherwise.[8] "Then he realized we needed to talk a lot more around the dinner table," Smith told The Canadian Press in 2014.[8]

Marlaina is also a past member of the Girl Guides of Canada and was featured in a 2013 museum exhibit about prominent Girl Guides at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery.[9] Smith is an admirer of Ayn Rand, John Locke and Margaret Thatcher.[8] Smith is a fan of the young-adult fantasy novel Eragon by Christopher Paolini, and once considered becoming a novelist in the science fiction and fantasy genres.[8][10]

Marlaina Smith attended the University of Calgary and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1993 and economics in 1995.[8] The university had a strong culture of conservative and progressive political activism and debate when Smith was a student. Smith's fellow classmates included Ezra Levant; Rob Anders; Naheed Nenshi; and Kevin Bosch, who became an adviser to prime ministers Paul Martin and Justin Trudeau.[8][6] One of Smith's classes was taught by former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed. The same class had Ian Brodie, who became chief of staff for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as a teachers' aide.[8] It was at the University of Calgary where Smith met Tom Flanagan, a conservative political activist and advisor, who was one of their professors while Smith studied economics. Flanagan became a mentor for Smith.

In 1996, Flanagan recommended Marlaina Smith for a one-year public policy internship with the Fraser Institute. During their time here, Marlaina coauthored a climate change denialist paper called "Environmental Indicators for Canada and the United States" with Boris DeWiel, Steven F. Hayward, and Laura Jones - which sought to "separate the facts from alarmist misinformation," and "bring balance to the environmental debate". The report argued that "contrary to public opinion, in most instances objectives for protecting human health and the environment are being met, pollution and wastes are being controlled, and resources and land are being sustainably and effectively managed".[11]

Flanagan later became Smith's campaign manager during the 2012 Alberta general election.[6] Marlaina Smith was active in the campus Progressive Conservatives and was eventually elected president of the club.[12] They also became involved in political campaigning and met their first husband, Sean McKinsley.[6] After graduating with an English major, Smith briefly lived in Vancouver where Smith worked as a waitress and as an extra in movie and TV productions.[6]

Early political and media career[edit]

Calgary Board of Education[edit]

In 1998, Marlaina Smith entered politics when they ran for the board of trustees of the Calgary Board of Education. Marlaina won, but less than a year later, the chairperson complained that the board had become dysfunctional. In response, the provincial Minister of Learning, Lyle Oberg, dismissed the entire board after 11 months into their term.[12][6]

Years later, Marlaina Smith said they had been far too strident during their tenure as a board trustee and said the experience taught them to be more tolerant of those with whom they disagreed.[13] Subsequently, Marlaina Smith pursued work as an advocate for ranchers, farmers and other rural landowners with the Alberta Property Rights Initiative and the Canadian Property Rights Research Institute.[14] During their time at the Canadian Property Rights Research Institute, they coauthored a paper on endangered species.

Career as Calgary Herald columnist and talk radio host[edit]

After their time as a school board trustee Marlaina Danielle Smith joined the Calgary Herald as a columnist with the editorial board. During the 1999–2000 writers' strike at the Herald, they crossed the picket line as a scab writer for the paper, at that time owned by Conrad Black.[15] Their columns included coverage of city hall and health reform, but also ventured into other topics. In 2003, they wrote a column supporting the legalization of sex work and proposed the creation of a red-light district in Calgary.[16] That same year, they also wrote an article titled "Anti-smoking lobby does more harm than good", in which they stated that smoking cigarettes can "reduce the risk of disease".[17]

They then went on to succeed Charles Adler as host of the national current affairs program Global Sunday, a Sunday-afternoon interview show on Global Television. They also hosted two talk radio programs focused on health policy and property rights.[12][14]

They met their second husband, David Moretta, who was an executive producer with Global Television at the time and would go on to be a former executive producer with Sun Media.[14]

In 2004, Smith was named one of Calgary's "Top 40 Under 40".[18]

In September 2006, they co-hosted the Calgary Congress, a national assembly of citizens and economic and constitutional specialists to consider basic federal reforms for Canada.[19]

Marlaina Smith was hired by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in 2006, becoming a provincial director for Alberta. While employed here, they coauthored a paper called "Achieving Eco-prosperity"

Early political views[edit]

Smith supported Ted Morton in the 2006 PC leadership election. Morton lost to Ed Stelmach, and Smith became increasingly disillusioned with what they said were Stelmach's "free-spending ways".[12] Smith cited the 2008 provincial budget as a turning point where they determined that Stelmach's government had 'lost its way'.[20]

Early provincial political career (2009–2015)[edit]

Wildrose Party[edit]

Marlaina Smith quit the PC party in 2009 and joined the Wildrose Alliance.[13] The Tories sent MLA Rob Anderson, one of the more fiscally conservative members of their caucus, to talk Smith out of it. Years later, Smith recalled that Anderson told them that despite the Tories' reckless spending and unwillingness to listen to the backbench, they were the only credible centre-right party in the province. Smith refused to stay, saying that there was no hope of restoring Alberta to fiscal sanity under the Tories, and that the Wildrose was the only credible chance at electing a fiscally conservative government. As far as they were concerned, they told Anderson, "This (Tory) government is beyond redemption. It's out of control."[21]

Later that year, Smith was recruited by Wildrose officials to run for the leadership of the party.[12][22] During the course of the leadership campaign outgoing leader Paul Hinman won in a by-election in the riding of Calgary-Glenmore.[23] His win meant he was one of four in the Wildrose caucus; by the time Smith was elected leader on October 17, 2009, support for the party had quadrupled since the 2008 election.[24][25] After Smith was elected leader, support for the Wildrose Party continued to grow.[26] Marlaina Smith convinced three PCs who served in government to cross the floor to join the Wildrose Party: Rob Anderson and Heather Forsyth, and later Guy Boutiller.[13]

In early 2011, Marlaina Smith was featured in an episode of CBC Television's Make the Politician Work.[27]

2012 election[edit]

Smith in 2012

For most of the time before the 2012 provincial election, it appeared that Smith was poised to become the first woman to lead a party to victory in an Alberta election.[28] Numerous polls indicated that the Wildrose Party could defeat the governing Progressive Conservatives, who were also led by a woman, Premier Alison Redford. The PCs had governed the province since 1971, the second-longest unbroken run in government at the provincial level.[29][30][31]

The Wildrose Party won 17 seats[32] on 34.3% of the popular vote, and took over Official Opposition status from the Alberta Liberal Party. Smith was elected to the Legislature from Highwood, just south of Calgary, on the same day, defeating John Barlow, editor of the Okotoks Western Wheel.[12][33][34]

Political pundits suggested Wildrose lost their early polling lead over the Progressive Conservatives due to Smith's defence of two Wildrose candidates who had made controversial remarks. Allan Hunsperger, running in an Edmonton riding, had written a blog post claiming that gays would end up in a "lake of fire" if they did not renounce their lifestyle. Ron Leech had claimed he would have a leg up on the competition in his Calgary riding because he was white.[35] According to the National Post, Hunsperger and Leech's extreme views, as well as Smith's refusal to condemn them, cost them a chance of unseating Redford.[32] Ultimately, Wildrose was denied victory mainly because it was unable to get any foothold in the urban areas. It won only two seats in Calgary and was completely shut out in Edmonton.

In appraising the election results at the Wildrose 2012 annual general meeting, Smith advocated freezing out candidates who cannot respectfully communicate their views in future elections. Smith asked members to adopt a forward-looking policy platform for the next election.[36]

Rejoining the Progressive Conservative Party[edit]

Smith and Jim Prentice announcing that Marlaina Smith and eight other Wildrose MLAs would be crossing the floor to join the Progressive Conservatives.

After Redford left politics in the spring of 2014 due to allegations of corruption, Smith's Wildrose party was initially the major beneficiary. However, this momentum stalled when former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice became PC leader and premier. Under Prentice, the PCs swept four by-elections in October.[21] Smith was dealt a second blow at the Wildrose annual general meeting, when an anti-discrimination resolution that they strongly supported was voted down while they were out of the room.[37]

On December 17, 2014, Smith announced that themselves, along with the deputy leader Rob Anderson, and seven other Wildrose MLAs were crossing the floor to join the PCs.[38] Smith had criticized two other Wildrose MLAs for defecting to the PCs a month earlier; Marlaina Smith had publicly stated that "there'll be no more floor crossings."[39] It was later revealed, however, that Smith and Prentice had been in talks about a possible merger for several months.[40] Smith said that several conversations with Prentice revealed that they shared much common ground, particularly on fiscal issues. Ultimately, Marlaina Smith concluded that it made little sense for them to continue in opposition. "If you're going to be the official Opposition leader," Smith said, "you have to really want to take down the government and really take down the premier. I don't want to take down this premier. I want this premier to succeed."[41] Several weeks after Smith joined the Progressive Conservatives, in a Facebook post, they apologized for the anger caused by their move and for not consulting with Albertans before making the decision. At the same time, Smith stood by their decision to "unify conservatives" in the province, and indicated that they intended to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in Highwood for the next election.[42][43][44]

Smith was defeated in their bid for the PC nomination in Highwood by Okotoks Councillor Carrie Fischer on March 28, 2015. Smith's defeat was attributed to their floor-crossing which angered many in their riding.[45] Fischer then lost to Wildrose candidate Wayne Anderson in the general election.[46]

Out of politics (2015–2022)[edit]

Talk radio[edit]

In the intervening period, Smith went on to host a talk radio program on CHQR in Calgary.[47] On January 11, 2021, Marlaina Smith announced that they were leaving their talk show and Twitter, citing attacks from Twitter trolls, effective February 19, 2021.[48]

In July 2021, Smith wrote an opinion article supporting Jason Kenney's referendum on equalization payments, held on October 18, 2021.[49]

Career as a lobbyist[edit]

In June 2019, Smith registered as a lobbyist for the Alberta Enterprise Group, an association where Smith was also the president.[50] At that time Smith lobbied the provincial government on behalf of industry for the RStar program.[51]

Premier of Alberta (2022–present)[edit]

Main article: Premiership of Danielle Smith

UCP Leadership race[edit]

On May 18, 2022, Smith announced that they were launching a campaign to seek the leadership of the United Conservative Party of Alberta, after the resignation of sitting premier and UCP leader Jason Kenney.[52][53] Smith was perceived to be the frontrunner among party members in the race to replace Kenney according to internal polling released to the Calgary Sun.[54]

Smith's central policy was to enact what they called the Alberta Sovereignty Act if they became premier. The proposal argued for more autonomy for Alberta in Confederation and called on the provincial legislature to make determinations on when to ignore federal legislation infringing upon Alberta's jurisdiction.[55] Six of Smith's opponents in the leadership race criticized the act.[56] Jason Kenney described it as a "full-frontal attack on the rule of law", as well as a step towards separation and a "banana republic".[57]

On October 6, Smith won the UCP leadership vote with 53.77% of the vote on the sixth count—the contest was conducted using instant-runoff voting—to become the premier-designate.[58] Smith was sworn in as the 19th premier and minister of Intergovernmental Relations on October 11.[59] Preceded by Herbert Greenfield and William Aberhart in this regard, Smith was just the last in a series of persons who have ascended to the premier's position without holding a seat in the legislature.

Smith's campaign ran a deficit of $26,792 after spending $1,389,829 on their successful campaign.[60]

Tenure[edit]

After being sworn in as premier, Smith said that they would not impose any further measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta.[61][62] They also said that people who are unvaccinated should be protected under the Alberta Human Rights Act; alluding to COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Smith said that they have been "the most discriminated against group that I've ever witnessed in my lifetime",[63][64][65] had "faced the most restrictions on their freedoms in the last year", and that "we are not going to create a segregated society on the basis of a medical choice". The remarks faced criticism for alleged trivialization of discrimination faced by minority groups, for which Smith did not apologize.[61][62][66]

On October 24, Smith pulled Alberta from the World Economic Forum Global Coalition for Value in Healthcare, saying that they would not "work with a group that talks about controlling governments." "I find it distasteful when billionaires brag about how much control they have over political leaders," Smith said.[67][68][69]

As Smith was not a member of the Legislative Assembly when they became premier, they ran in a by-election for the southern Alberta seat of Brooks-Medicine Hat on November 8, 2022.[70] The incumbent, fellow UCP MLA Michaela Frey, resigned soon after Smith was elected leader and premier, and had encouraged Smith to run.[71] Longstanding convention in Westminster systems when the leader of the governing party is not a member of the legislature to either hold a general election or a by-election, often caused by a sitting member in a safe seat resigning in order to allow the newly elected leader a chance to enter the legislature. Smith won the by-election, with 54.5% of the vote.[72]

In late-November 2022, Smith backpedaled on their plan to introduce a bill that would add unvaccinated individuals as a protected class under the Alberta Human Rights Act. However, Smith continued to promote an intent for themself and their ministers to contact businesses and organizations that were still "discriminating" via COVID-19 vaccine mandates and ask them to "reconsider their vaccination policy in the light of new evidence". Smith stated that "most employers have made the responsible decision to not discriminate against their workers", and for people to inform their MLAs "If there is still discrimination".[73][74][75] In December 2022 the legislature passed the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act.[76]

The Alberta ethics commissioner started investigating Smith in April, 2023 for their alleged interference with the administration of justice.[77] Smith had previously promised pardons for those guilty of COVID-19 violations and indicated they were in regular contact with Crown prosecutors.[78] In May 2023 the ethics commissioner found that Smith had contravened the Conflict of Interest Act by discussing criminal charges against Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski with the justice minister Tyler Shandro and with Pawlowski himself.[79]

In the 2023 Alberta general election, Smith led the UCP to a significantly reduced majority government, defeating the New Democratic Party led by Rachel Notley.[80][81] The election campaign was close and one of the fiercest in Alberta's history.[82] Smith was re-elected in their riding.[83] Smith had inherited a 16-seat majority from Kenney, but saw it slashed to four. Notably, the UCP was knocked down to second place in Calgary, which had been the power base for the centre-right in Alberta for years, and was completely shut out of Edmonton. However, the UCP swept all but four seats outside Edmonton and Calgary. Smith thus became the third woman to lead a party to a win in an Alberta general election, after Redford and Notley.

Political views and public image[edit]

Smith has been described as "libertarian on moral issues" by The Globe and Mail in 2012,[13] a "populist Conservative" by Politico in 2023,[84] and as "far-right" by The New York Times in 2023.[85] In a 2023 interview with the Calgary Sun, Smith self-identified as a "caring conservative".[86]

Smith shared a mentor, political scientist Tom Flanagan, with former Reform Party leader Preston Manning and former prime minister Stephen Harper. Marlaina Smith has an affinity towards Manning's movement and Harper's government.[13] Smith distanced themselves and the Wildrose Party from Flanagan in February 2013, after he made controversial remarks over child pornography.[87][88]

Marlaina Smith is pro-choice and supports same-sex marriage.[89] While they were a columnist with the Calgary Herald, they argued in favour of legalizing sex work.[16] During their UCP leadership campaign in 2022, Smith gave alternatives to in order to allow transgender athletes to compete in preferred gender categories.[90] While they were leader of the Wildrose Party, Smith supported conscience rights legislation for health care workers[91] and opposed publicly funding gender-affirming surgeries.[92]

A Wildrose insider told Calgary Herald editorial page editor Licia Corbella in 2014 that Smith had grown increasingly uncomfortable with the number of social conservatives supporting the Wildrose Party while they were leader.[93] Smith told CBC News that the defeat of the anti-discrimination resolution led them to seriously consider returning to the PCs.[37]

Smith has been described as media-savvy and adept at presenting a professional and polished image.[94]

Smith has been criticized for making false claims about a cure for COVID-19, E. coli and statements blaming stage 4 cancer patients for their diagnosis.[95][96][97][65] Smith has since apologised for making statements on E. coli.[95]

Controversies[edit]

After Marlaina Smith became premier, it was revealed that they made comments on April 29 during a Locals.com livestream about Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Smith argued for a peace plan between Russia and Ukraine and advocated for Ukraine's neutrality. Smith also made subsequently deleted posts in March that questioned whether breakaway regions in Ukraine should be able to govern independently, and whether NATO played a role in the invasion, citing a conspiracy theory promoted by Tucker Carlson alleging 'secret U.S. funded biolabs' in Ukraine.[98] On October, 16, Smith issued a statement saying that they "stands with the Ukrainian people" and advocated for diplomacy to "spare millions of Ukrainian lives."[99] Smith also made posts on Locals.com critical of COVID-19 vaccines and questioned the legitimacy of reports that unmarked graves had been found in Canadian residential schools.[100]

In a social media interview on November 10, 2021, Smith said that they were not wearing a Remembrance Day poppy because politicians and public health officials had "ruined it for her" by taking away Canadians' freedoms through public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, and that citizens that had gone along with public health measures and been vaccinated had fallen for the "charms of a tyrant" in the same way that Germans had fallen for Adolf Hitler.[101][102] Smith elaborated, "That's the test here, is we've seen it. We have 75 per cent of the public who say not only hit me, but hit me harder, and keep me away from those dirty unvaxxed."[101][102] When the interview resurfaced in 2023, Smith apologized, writing "As everyone knows, I was against the use of vaccine mandates during COVID. ... However, the horrors of the Holocaust are without precedent, and no one should make any modern-day comparisons that minimize the experience of the Holocaust and suffering under Hitler, nor the sacrifice of our veterans."[101]

During their campaign for the UCP leadership, Smith conducted an interview with a Naturopathic physician during which they discussed lifestyle for the prevention of cancer and how Smith's health savings account proposal could help with that. Smith said "When you think about everything that built up before you got to stage 4 [of cancer] and that diagnosis — that's completely within your control and there's something you can do about that that is different."[102] NDP leader Rachel Notley and Smith's fellow candidates including Brian Jean criticized this comment, with Jean (who lost a son to cancer) Tweeting "You [Smith] saying to someone that their cancer is 'completely within your control' before stage four is insensitive, hurtful, and outright untrue. Please stop."[102]

On May 17, 2023, an investigation by Marguerite Trussler, the Alberta Ethics Commissioner, found that Danielle Smith had violated section 3 of the Conflict of Interest Act by talking to the Alberta Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of Alberta about charges in an ongoing criminal case against far-right street preacher and COVID-19 protestor Artur Pawlowski.[103][104]

A news-leak on December 18, 2023 revealed allegations of an ongoing ethics probe into recent re-structuring at Alberta Health Services, including the rapid hiring and firing of Deena Hinshaw for a position on their Indigenous Wellness Core team just days prior to starting. One physician at Alberta Health Services resigned in protest, claiming 'political interference from Danielle Smith's office', and a letter signed by over 200 physicians called for an investigation into the matter.[105]

Controversies about ancestry claims[edit]

Smith has made claims about their ancestry that have been debunked by genealogists and Canadian immigration records.

Marlaina Smith's paternal great-grandfather was Philipus Kolodnicki, whose name was anglicized to "Philip Smith" upon arriving in Canada.

In October 2022, Smith claimed Kolodnicki left Ukraine after the First World War, which ended in 1918, to escape communism. Smith said their political beliefs were "largely born out of a complete distrust of the socialism from which my great-grandfather fled."[106] In a 2012 profile in The Globe and Mail, Smith claimed Kolodnicki was a Ukrainian immigrant who arrived in Canada in 1915.[13][20]

Immigration records reviewed by The Toronto Star showed Kolodnicki arrived in Canada in 1913, before either the First World War or the 1917 October Revolution. Kolodnicki also listed his nation of origin as Austria and his race as Ruthenian, a term that at the time referred to the ancestors of modern Ukrainians, Belarusians and Rusyns.[106]

Beginning in 2012, Smith publicly claimed they had Cherokee roots through their great-great-grandmother, Mary Frances Crowe. Smith also claimed Crowe was a victim of the Trail of Tears and forcibly relocated to Kansas in the 1830s.[107] An investigation from APTN National News looked over U.S. census records and found Crowe was born in 1870 in Georgia, about 20 years after the U.S. government forced the Cherokee out of their homelands.[107]

Kathy Griffin, a Cherokee genealogist in Texas who worked with APTN, could not find proof that any of Smith's ancestors were members of the historical Cherokee tribes, including the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians of Oklahoma, or the Cherokee Nation. Smith's ancestors also did not appear on the Dawes Roll, a U.S. registry cataloguing members of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole.[107]

Following APTN's story, Smith's press secretary said Smith had not done a "deep dive into her ancestry" and "heard about her heritage from her loved ones".[108]

Electoral history[edit]

2023 general election[edit]

Template:2023 Alberta general election/Brooks-Medicine Hat

2022 by-election[edit]

Alberta provincial by-election, 8 November 2022: Brooks-Medicine Hat
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
United Conservative Danielle Smith 6,919 54.51 -6.15
New Democratic Gwendoline Dirk 3,394 26.74 +8.85
Alberta Party Barry Morishita 2,098 16.53 +9.60
Alberta Independence Bob Blayone 225 1.77 +0.80
Wildrose Independence Jeevan Mangat 56 0.44
Total valid votes 12,692
Total rejected ballots 45
Turnout 12,695 35.51 -30.27
Eligible voters 35,872
United Conservative hold Swing -7.48
Elections Alberta[109]

2022 United Conservative leadership election[edit]

2022 United Conservative Party leadership election
Candidate Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
Danielle Smith 34,549 41.3 34,981 41.4 35,095 41.7 38,496 46.2 39,270 47.7 42,423 53.77
Travis Toews 24,831 29.4 25,054 29.7 25,593 30.4 26,592 31.9 30,794 37.4 36,480 46.23
Brian Jean 9,301 11.1 9,504 11.3 10,157 12.1 11,251 13.5 12,203 14.8 Eliminated
Rebecca Schulz 5,835 6.9 6,108 7.3 6,784 8.0 6,972 8.4 Eliminated
Todd Loewen 6,496 7.7 6,512 7.7 6,596 7.8 Eliminated
Rajan Sawhney 1,787 2.1 2,246 2.7 Eliminated
Leela Aheer 1,394 1.6 Eliminated
Total 84,193 100.00 84,405 100.00 84,225 100.00 83,3177 100.00 82,267 100.00 78,903 100.00

2012 general election[edit]

Template:2012 Alberta general election/Highwood

2009 Wildrose leadership election[edit]

2009 Wildrose Alliance Party leadership election
Candidate Votes[110] %
Danielle Smith 6,295 76.77
Mark Dyrholm 1,905 23.23
Total 8,200 100

References[edit]

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  3. ↑ "Candidate – Marlaina Danielle Smith Campaign 2015". Elections Alberta. Archived from the original on October 7, 2022. Retrieved September 14, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  4. ↑ Sharpe, Sydney (14 April 2012). "Danielle Smith: Is she Alberta's Sarah Palin, or the future of Canada?". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 13 October 2022.
  5. ↑ Henton, Darcy (March 27, 2012). "Mr. Smith, do you really know what the Wildrose is up to?". Calgary Herald. Retrieved August 21, 2023.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 6.6 Markusoff, Jason (October 6, 2022). "The reinvention(s) of Danielle Smith: How Alberta's next premier talked her way out of political oblivion to become the Great Right Hope". CBC News.
  7. ↑ Verma, Sonia (November 12, 2010). "Danielle Smith: 'My life will fall under the microscope'". The Globe and Mail. Toronto. Archived from the original on February 10, 2011. Retrieved April 1, 2012. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Dawson, Tyler (2023-04-27). "The comeback queens: Rachel Notley vs Danielle Smith in the battle for Alberta". National Post. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  9. ↑ "Guides change with times". Red Deer Advocate. October 1, 2013. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2018. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)
  10. ↑ Fong, Petti (2012-04-20). "Alberta election: The education of Danielle Smith". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
  11. ↑ DeWiel, Boris; Hayward, Steven; Jones, Laura; Danielle, Smith (1 March 1997). "Environmental Indicators for Canada and the United States" (PDF). Fraser Institute. Retrieved December 12, 2023.
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