Premier vows to protect Alberta against 'future hostile acts' from Ottawa after Liberal victory

Wallis Snowdon · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 29, 2025 11:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is reacting to the results of the national predetermination by taking a swipe astatine the newly-elected Liberal authorities and promising to support the state against "future hostile acts" from Ottawa. 

In a connection Tuesday morning, Smith made her archetypal ceremonial comments since Prime Minister Mark Carney led the Liberals to triumph Monday night.

Smith said that galore voters successful the blimpish stronghold of Alberta are frustrated to spot a instrumentality to reddish successful Ottawa.

As the person of the United Conservative government, Smith has often railed against however the Liberals person governed the resource-rich state and pushed for Alberta to person much independency and autonomy. 

In her connection Tuesday, Smith invited Carney to amended relations betwixt Alberta and the national government.

"I invitation the premier curate to instantly commence moving with our authorities to reset the narration betwixt Ottawa and Alberta with meaningful enactment alternatively than hollow rhetoric," Smith said. 

"A ample bulk of Albertans are profoundly frustrated that the aforesaid authorities that overtly attacked our provincial system astir unabated for the past 10 years has been returned to government." 

'Demeaned and demonized'

In her statement, Smith congratulates Carney for his "minority authorities predetermination victory" earlier thanking Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre for his "powerful and principled" advocacy for Alberta. 

Smith said Poilievre remains a "true person of Alberta." 

While Liberals and New Democrats "demeaned and demonized Albertans" connected the run trail, Poilievre made empowering Albertans and the province's vigor assemblage a cornerstone of his campaign, Smith said.

"Albertans are arrogant Canadians that privation this federation to beryllium strong, prosperous, and united, but we volition nary longer tolerate having our industries threatened and our resources landlocked by Ottawa," Smith said. 

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The Liberals are projected to triumph different term, but it's excessively adjacent to accidental whether it volition beryllium a number oregon majority. 

The Conservative Party earned the enactment of a ample percent of the population, leaving the Liberals with the imaginable of starring a state dealing with governmental divides.

Conservatives are projected to triumph astir each 1 of Alberta's 37 ridings. The lone outliers are successful Edmonton with Heather McPherson projected to triumph Edmonton Centre for the NDP and Eleanor Olszewski projected to triumph Edmonton Centre for the Liberals.

Liberal campaigner Corey Hogan is projected to clasp a flimsy pb implicit Conservative campaigner Jeremy Nixon successful the riding of Calgary Confederation. 

Smith said her UCP authorities volition clasp a peculiar caucus gathering to further sermon adjacent steps. Smith said she would person much details to stock pursuing Friday's meeting. 

"In the weeks and months ahead, Albertans volition person an accidental to sermon our province's future, measure assorted options for strengthening and protecting our state against aboriginal hostile acts from Ottawa, and to yet take a way forward," Smith said. 

"As premier, I volition facilitate and pb this treatment and process with the sincere anticipation of securing a prosperous aboriginal for our state wrong a agreed Canada that respects our province's law rights, facilitates alternatively than blocks the improvement and export of our abundant resources, and treats america arsenic a valued and respected spouse wrong confederation."