Stand With Alberta: Don’t Fall for the Pile-On Against Danielle Smith 🇨🇦🔥

The pile-on has started. 🚨 And if you’re falling for it, you’re doing exactly what the people behind it want.

Over the past few days, Premier Danielle Smith has been getting hammered over vaccines. Let’s look at what actually happened, because it’s a lot smaller than the headlines and the angry posts make it sound. 👇

What actually happened 🧐

On Saturday, October 24, Smith and Hospital and Surgical Health Services Minister Adriana LaGrange held a news conference at Calgary’s Foothills Medical Centre to lay out the province’s plan for respiratory virus season. According to the Calgary Herald’s report, here is what they said:

• 🏥 Alberta is heading into flu season with 9,003 acute-care spaces, the largest capacity in the province’s history.
• 💉 COVID-19 shots are available at pharmacies again this fall. Smith said the vaccines now come in individual vials, so there is less waste. Wasted doses dropped from more than 50 per cent to around 20 per cent last year.
• 🎯 Her words on the program: “We made sure that, with our vaccination program, that it is targeted to the most at-risk individuals.”

That’s it. By Monday, October 26, the Western Standard was running a story titled “Smith facing criticism over expanded COVID-19 vaccine accessibility program,” and social media accounts were accusing her of abandoning her “vaccine justice” message and “promoting” the shot. Meanwhile, accounts on the other side of the aisle were complaining the government hadn’t promoted vaccines enough. 🤦 Think about that. She’s being attacked from both directions over one press conference about hospital beds and logistics.

Here’s what is true, and no amount of spin changes it:

• 🚫 Nobody is being mandated. There is no vaccine passport, no mandate and no order. Smith’s own line is that Alberta believes in vaccine choice.
• 💵 COVID shots are still targeted. Per the province, they’re free for at-risk groups such as seniors, pregnant Albertans, health-care workers and people with underlying conditions. Everyone else still pays $100. That is not a “vaccine push.” A government that was pushing shots on you wouldn’t be charging you $100.
• 📉 Almost nobody is lining up for it. Smith pointed out last year that fewer than 14 per cent of Albertans got the COVID shot during the previous flu season. Nobody knows those numbers better than she does.
• 🏪 Letting pharmacies handle the shot again is a logistics decision. It’s about cutting waste. It’s not a mandate and it’s not an endorsement.

So let me be blunt. 🔥 The people shouting “she expanded the vaccine!” are reading way more into this than what actually happened. She didn’t mandate anything. Whether you want to call restoring pharmacy access an “expansion” is a semantic argument. What it isn’t is a mandate, and nobody is being forced to do anything. The same outrage machine that ran every scary COVID headline in 2020 and 2021 is now running every scary headline about Danielle Smith in 2026. Same panic, new target.

It’s politics. And it’s smart politics. 🧠

Let’s be adults about this. Smith reads the same uptake numbers we do. She knows Albertans who want the shot are a small number, and she knows nobody is being forced. So she can say something friendly about vaccines to reach the pro-vaccine voters she needs for 2027, while the people who are against the shot aren’t going to be talked into one by a press conference. Does anyone seriously believe a single sentence from the Premier is going to talk a vaccine-skeptical Albertan into rolling up their sleeve? No. Of course not. 🙄

This is called politics. Leaders look for the reason why someone does something. Followers jump on the bandwagon the minute they see everyone else jumping. 🚂 Don’t be a follower.

Who is driving the bandwagon? 🎯

Look at who benefits from the pile-on. Alberta’s next election is fixed for October 18, 2027. Naheed Nenshi’s NDP smells blood. He said flat-out, in his own statement on the pipeline announcement, that “nothing Danielle Smith has done shows she’s up to the task” of getting a pipeline built. And inside the UCP, a few riding groups are already demanding a leadership review. Every cheap shot, every out-of-context clip, every “she betrayed us” post is a gift to the people who want her gone.

Expect the media coverage to get worse, not better. The press is going to go at her with everything they have between now and October 2027. And for what? So Albertans can wake up to an NDP government led by Nenshi and his band of merry DEI crusaders. 🌈💸

Think about what is at stake. On October 1, Ottawa listed Alberta’s west coast oil pipeline, Pacific Link, as a project of national interest. It would let Canada export an additional one million barrels a day to Asian markets. The federal government says it wants the conditions finalized by September 1, 2027. The Alberta election is October 18, 2027. Read those two dates again. 🗓️ The most important Alberta energy project in a generation is going to be mid-process right when Albertans vote.

Now, to be fair, Nenshi has said he supports the southern route. He also said he’s “cut ties” with the federal NDP, whose leader, Avi Lewis, has come out against the pipeline. Maybe Nenshi means it. But when it’s time to push a pipeline through Ottawa, Victoria and the courts, do you want the premier who has been fighting for this since day one, or a party family that can’t agree on whether Alberta should be shipping oil to the coast at all? 🛢️ I know my answer.

She is taking on woke ideology in our institutions, and they hate her for it ⚔️

Here’s what the pile-on conveniently forgets. Smith is systematically dismantling wokeism in our government, our schools and our institutions. This is not rhetoric, it’s law and regulation:

• 🏫 Flags in schools: Alberta’s new Flag Display Regulation, released October 23, makes the Canadian and Alberta flags the only ones permitted to fly outside on school property throughout the year. Any others, including pride flags, require a written request to the Education minister. It takes effect January 4, 2027. 🇨🇦
• 📚 Ideology out of the classroom: The Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms got royal assent May 14, 2026. School boards can no longer issue statements or take positions on political, social or ideological matters outside their mandate.
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Parents come first: Alberta’s rules require schools to notify parents when a student wants to change their name or pronouns for gender identity reasons, and to get parental consent before staff use them for students under 16. Parents must also opt in before their kids get instruction on gender identity, sexual orientation or human sexuality.
• 💼 DEI hiring: On October 27, the government introduced Bill 33, which, if passed, would put merit first in provincial hiring and promotion decisions and ban mandatory DEI training for provincial bodies, except where it’s needed to do the job. It’s a bill for now, not law yet, so let’s make sure it passes. ✊

Do you really think the people who are furious that she’s pulling pride flags and DEI hiring out of the public sector are suddenly worried about her vaccine messaging? 😏

The record: what Danielle Smith has delivered since October 2022 🏆

Danielle Smith was sworn in as premier in October 2022. Here’s what she has done, with a source for every item. Not one of these is something the people trashing her this week are going to mention. 👇

• ⚖️ Sovereignty Act: Passed the Alberta Sovereignty within a United Canada Act in December 2022, giving Alberta a legal tool to push back against federal overreach.
• 🛡️ Protecting your pension: The Alberta Pension Protection Act (2023) means Alberta can’t touch the CPP without a referendum first, and any plan would have to deliver equal or better benefits.
• 💰 A tax cut for working Albertans: Budget 2025 introduced a new 8% provincial income tax bracket on the first $60,000 of income. Individuals can save up to $750 a year and two-income families up to $1,500. (Alberta.ca)
• ⛽ Fuel tax relief: Alberta’s provincial fuel tax of 13 cents a litre is paused from October 1 to December 31, 2026 under the Fuel Tax Relief Program.
• 💵 Cheques when inflation hit: The 2023 Affordability Action Plan paid $100 a month for six months ($600) to eligible seniors and for each child under 18 (households under $180,000), and automatically paid $600 to people on AISH, Income Support and other benefits. Core benefits were also increased by 6% and then indexed to inflation. (Budget 2023 highlights)
• ⚡ Electricity relief: The regulated electricity rate was capped at 13.5 cents per kWh from January to March 2023. To be upfront, the difference was deferred and spread over 21 months, not erased, but it softened the blow in the dead of winter.
• 📈 Surpluses: Three straight surplus years: $11.6 billion in 2022-23, $4.3 billion in 2023-24 and $8.3 billion in 2024-25.
• 🏦 Debt paydown and savings: Paid down $13.3 billion in debt in 2022-23, and the Heritage Savings Trust Fund grew by $2.5 billion to $21.2 billion that year. (CBC)
• 🏥 Health-care overhaul: Replaced the single AHS model with four agencies: Primary Care Alberta, Acute Care Alberta, Assisted Living Alberta and Recovery Alberta. (fact sheet)
• 🛏️ Record hospital capacity: 9,003 acute-care spaces heading into this flu season, the most in Alberta’s history, with 221 spaces added over the last few years and 194 more temporary ones ready. (Calgary Herald)
• 🛢️ West coast pipeline: The November 2025 Canada-Alberta MOU, Alberta’s July 2026 submission to the Major Projects Office, and Pacific Link’s October 1 listing as a project of national interest. Construction could start as early as September 1, 2027, once consultation and approvals are complete.
• 🌿 Carbon capture: In July 2026, Alberta, Ottawa and the Oil Sands Alliance signed an MOU to advance the Pathways carbon capture project, which the province calls the world’s largest. (Alberta.ca)
• 🔫 Standing up for law-abiding gun owners: Alberta refuses to participate in or enforce Ottawa’s firearm buyback program, with the province directing its own entities not to help implement it. (CBC)
• 👧 Protecting kids and women’s sports: Passed laws limiting gender-related medical treatments for minors, requiring parental notice and consent in schools, and limiting women’s and girls’ amateur sports to those born female. In December 2025, Bill 9 invoked the notwithstanding clause to protect all three from being struck down. (Alberta.ca)
• 🏫 Neutral classrooms: The May 2026 Education Act amendments, which also protect school employees from being forced to take part in activities that conflict with their personal beliefs. (Alberta.ca)
• 🇨🇦 Canadian and Alberta flags first: The school Flag Display Regulation, in force January 4, 2027. (Edmonton Journal)
• 💼 Merit-based hiring: Bill 33, introduced October 27, 2026, to end DEI in provincial hiring and promotion. (Alberta.ca)

That’s the record. 🔝 You can disagree with a policy here or there. But that is a premier who is actually fighting for Alberta, fighting Ottawa, and fighting the woke agenda in our institutions.

Don’t fall for the propaganda 📣

When a news conference about hospital beds and pharmacy logistics turns into a week of outrage, ask yourself who is stoking it and who wins. 🧐 It’s not you. It’s not Alberta. It’s the people who’ve been waiting for a reason to turn on her so they can take power in 2027.

So here’s what I’m asking you to do. 👇

• 🔍 Read the actual story before you share the outrage. Check what was actually said, and what is mandated (nothing).
• 🛑 Stop sharing the pile-on. Every angry post is free advertising for her opponents.
• 📣 Speak up for the record. Share the list above. Tell your friends what she’s actually done.
• 🗳️ Remember the date: October 18, 2027. Alberta’s oil, Alberta’s pipeline, Alberta’s schools and Alberta’s future are on the ballot.

Danielle Smith is the best premier in Canada. 🇨🇦 Don’t let anyone talk you out of it. Don’t fall for the spin. Don’t fall for the propaganda. Stand with Alberta. 💪🔥

Sources are linked throughout. Pacific Link, Bill 33 and the Flag Display Regulation are as of October 28, 2026: the pipeline has not started construction, Bill 33 has only been introduced, and the flag regulation takes effect January 4, 2027.

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