EDMONTON –Danielle Smith appeared to be heading back to her political roots with Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives on Wednesday after spending the last five years fighting to oust them from power.
Few would argue that the Wildrose party’s rise and fall has been inextricably linked to Smith, 43, a self-styled disciple of Britain’s Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher.
Rewind to 2008, when then-premier Ed Stelmach delivered another spend-heavy budget. Rumours were flying that Smith, a rising PC star with business bona fides and a profile as a TV journalist, was going to jump to an upstart Tory splinter group. Tory backbencher Rob Anderson was …read more
Source: Macleans
