A former Alberta cabinet minister says Premier Danielle Smith won’t survive the crisis in her United Conservative Party amid fallout from the separation referendum.
Peter Guthrie, who was removed from the UCP caucus after criticizing the government over a health-care procurement scandal, now leads the upstart Progressive Tory Party of Alberta.
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He says Monday’s referendum angered both federalists and separatists and leaves Smith with more enemies than supporters.
About 75 per cent of voters cast ballots to keep Alberta in Canada and not to have a second, binding referendum on leaving the country.
Smith’s office says Guthrie is out of touch with Albertans and peddling misinformation.
On Wednesday, the premier said anyone running for or speaking for her UCP must accept its pro-Canada stance.
She said separatists intent on turning the party into a vehicle for independence should join a different party, warning internal division could cost the UCP next year’s election.
Guthries grapes are sour. He is irrelevant.
Smith will be fine
Lefties are as sharp as a bag of wet hair
Trump shats out turds smarter than carnhole! Fug you canatards are SO DUMB!
Sam – effff euuuuu dummm dummm maga
Governor smith is just going to keep making seperatists policies based on the other referendum questions. Smith is a serious threat still to Canadians and Canadian sovereignty. Canadians must demand her removal
I agree with Guthrie. He isn’t out of touch in this regard. Smith let this happen. Wasted our money on this referendum and other political cr@p on her agenda. I don’t think her political career will fare well going forward.
Trump will continue to take a dump down carnhole’s throat. welcum to cunada land of DUMDUMS!
There is no reasoning with the left, there is no getting through their brainless heads. All they understand is being smashed and smashed and smashed!
@dan, keep sucking carnhole you sh*tstain
Carnhole? Transing your kids? My God, you conservatives get dumber every day, if that’s possible.
Vote for 1000 pound nenshit with a chicken carcass in each hand, all you DUMB anti Albertans who voted to STAY and keep scking carnholes shriveled weiner
Seen the polls? The wishcasting is hard and heavy. The NDP has lost all leverage and wants to run on transing the kids again. The separatist hard core hasn’t a compelling leader alternative. Smith is in a fine position.
She is doing a fine Job, and also she is going into MILF territory!
Amazing how Smith, initially the separatist champion, is now pro-Canada. Maybe she should tell that to her UCP MLA’s!?
Steve, you better go check again
She’s gone or the UCP is going to be split, I don’t care which
I have talked with Mr Guthrie many times. He is becoming more extreme by the day as his dreams of power continue to slip away.
I and many Albertans agree with many of his points. What we disagree with is fracturing the UCP so he can become the boss.
His quest for power is obviously more important to him than Alberta.
For that reason alone he is a traitor to all Albertans.
She won on every issue. Stories like this are cope