When Premier Danielle Smith announced her new plan to strengthen bodily autonomy, property, and gun rights, she repeated phrasing she has used before about Alberta being a “bastion of liberty” or a “bastion of freedom.”
People from other parts of Canada are increasingly moving to Alberta, and while jobs and many other factors are at play, Smith also attributes some inflow to freedom-seekers.
“I have people who come up to me from British Columbia, from Ontario, saying that that’s one of the reasons why they chose to come here,” Smith said in a Sept. 25 interview with the Western Standard about her amendments to the province’s Bill of Rights.
“I think people will continue to want to come to Alberta. We can be that little bastion of liberty when others might be turning a different direction,” she said. …