Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says conservatives should learn to win in “big cities.”
Smith made the remark to a room of conservatives gathered in Ottawa for the annual convention of the Canada Strong and Free Network, previously known as the Manning Centre.
With Albertans set to go the polls in a provincial election this 12 months, Smith says the United Conservative Party has extra floor to achieve within the province’s two largest cities: Calgary and Edmonton.
Smith changed Jason Kenney as occasion chief and premier final fall, after he resigned following a management evaluate the place he obtained solely 51 per cent help.
Kenney confronted appreciable backlash main as much as that vote for his dealing with of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Smith advised Thursday’s crowd that the occasion had misplaced “a lot” of its base.
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Smith’s perception that conservatives should make inroads in giant cities is shared by the federal Conservatives, with Leader Pierre Poilievre spending lots of his weekends in Metro Vancouver and the Greater Toronto Area — areas the place his occasion has struggled to achieve floor prior to now a number of elections.
