Canada at the national level is run by a fascist man-child, purported son of Fidel Castro, Prime Minister Trudeau. He has been hurtling Canada down a dark path leading to tyranny. He is a tyrant with a pretty smile.

But as with the United States, Canada is a federal system and the provinces each have their own governments. I am no expert on Canadian politics–come on, who is?–but even I know that Western Canada has some much saner residents than Toronto and Vancouver.

Alberta is one such province, and the newly chosen Premier of the province is voicing some hard truths about both the sorry state of the national government and the shabby way that COVID vaccine skeptics have been treated.

She even apologized outright to her citizens for that shabby treatment.

BREAKING: Rebel News’s Selene Galas (@selenecxliv) asked Premier of Alberta, Danielle Smith when we can expect a promised apology for those prosecuted during the lockdowns. Smith replied “I can apologize right now.”

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Premier Smith hasn’t pulled many punches taking on the Canadian Establishment™. She attacked the World Economic Forum, although she is clearly getting a lot of blowback for that, has outright challenged the national government’s authority to impose its will on the provinces, and even said she would treat government representatives from Toronto as “ambassadors” instead of rulers. Her comments on the civil rights violations that took place over the past couple of years are striking, as are her promises to come to the aid of people who were oppressed by the government:

“It was a political decision to throw out the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to put those fines in place in the first place, and I think it can be a political decision to make amends and apologize for it and eliminate them,” Smith said.

“The things that come to top of mind for me are people who got arrested as pastors, people who got arrested or given fines for not wearing masks,” she added.

“These are not things that are normal to get fines and get prosecuted for,” Smith said. “So I am going to look into the range of outstanding fines that there still are and to get some legal advice on which ones we are able to cancel and provide amnesty for.”

In Canada, in most cases, the issuer of pardons is the federal parole board using the Criminal Records Act. Lieutenant-governors of Canadian provinces may issue pardons on the advice of cabinet. In the U.S., the president and most state governors can issue pardons directly for federal or state offences, respectively.

In her view, while encouraging individuals who want to get vaccinated to protect themselves is important, it was also time to stop “demonizing” people making the personal choice not to receive an immunization for COVID-19.

Smith also affirmed she is sticking to her plan to amend human rights legislation in the province to include vaccination status and linked the health care system’s strain to mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policies.

Premier Smith has been under constant attack for her COVID related statements, but she has been sticking to her guns. She has been taking enormous heat for her assertion that vaccine skeptics are the most discriminated against group she has seen. Obviously this violates the intersectional oppression hierarchy, and the Left couldn’t resist going for her throat. Yet despite this, she won’t engage in a fake apology:

Despite calls for her to apologize for saying that unvaccinated Canadians are the “most discriminated group” she’s witnessed in her lifetime, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith stood by her remarks on Wednesday, but did try to explain the intention behind her words.

Smith’s comments came during her first media conference on the job on Tuesday, in which she said the way unvaccinated residents have been treated is “unacceptable.”

“That’s a pretty extreme level of discrimination that we have seen,” she said.

In a statement released Wednesday, the premier said she “did not intend to trivialize” the discrimination faced by “minority communities and other persecuted groups” or to “create any false equivalencies to the terrible historical discrimination and persecution suffered by so many minority groups over the last decades and centuries.”

She came out swinging on her first day, and hasn’t backed down. She’s no Ron DeSantis taking the fight to the media, but she won’t kowtow to them or the cancel mob either. Good. Canada needs a thousand more of her to start taking their country back.

Her keynote speech on Saturday focused on party unity, health-care reform and lowering costs for families in Alberta. It received rounds of loud applause and several standing ovations from party members.

Political observers and some party members who mingled just outside the event hall spoke about the importance of clear and responsible communication from the leader going forward.

Smith on Saturday reiterated plans around her Alberta Sovereignty Act, which hasn’t been fully detailed yet, but which she’s suggested would allow the province to buck federal laws that “intervene” on its jurisdiction.

“If they want to take us to court, we’ll fight it out in court,” said Smith after being asked if the province would respect Supreme Court decisions.

After saying the federal government “passes unconstitutional legislation all the time,” Smith gave examples of areas she would resist, like federal building codes, the plastics ban, and child-care funding.

“I have asked our staff to treat the federal government like a lobbyist,” said Smith. “So, when they come into any of our ministries and they seek to make any influence or policy change, I’m going to have to be notified.”

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s individual style, it is clear that his presidency has spawned a new generation of politicians both here and abroad. Politicians who don’t shrink in the face of criticism, who don’t spurn the support of the silent majority, and who are determined to take the fight to the Left.

I was a Trump skeptic. I found him abrasive, crude, bombastic, and generally unappealing. But I grew to appreciate him through his accomplishments, which were many. I had to separate my assessment of his personality from his political achievements, and in doing so I came to understand that he was doing good work and, unlike a weaker or nicer man, was not going to buckle under the pressure of attacks.

And I have to say that the new generation of Trump inspired politicians such as Ron DeSantis here and Premier Smith (she would probably reject my tying her to Trump, but I see a connection) gives me hope. They learned the right lessons from Trump, and for the most part have fewer rough edges that turn off moderate voters.

History will likely see Trump as the trailblazer, with those following in his wake being the pioneers building a new community in a rough landscape. Perhaps they can build a sustainable community despite settling in a cultural wasteland.

I wish her success in speaking Truth to power. As we know, the odds are against her, but you can’t win if you don’t play the game.