Thirty-five years ago, I graduated from the University of Alberta Honors Political Science Program. Rachel Notley was my classmate in a class of 12 students. Preparing me to understand COVID-Rachel, I took a number of courses in Soviet Government, Soviet Foreign Policy, Soviet Medical and Psychiatric Abuse and Soviet History..I must tell you 35 years ago, Rachel Notley would have been outraged at the thought of union members, including police, fire service personnel, nurses and teachers, being told if they did not take part in an experimental injection program that had no bona fide occupational purpose, they would have been laid off without pay — or lose their jobs entirely. But, Modern Rachel sees no issue in kicking union members in the teeth by allowing them to be laid off without pay, also has the nerve to suggest anyone who actually reads current scientific journals or supports civil liberties is part of a “small group of extremists”.. Jeff Rath, lawyerJeff Rath, lawyer, Rath & Company .I am proud to be counted in that group..Here's the thing: Far from the progressive socialist of her youth, Rachel Notley is now a big-pharma supporting, unreconstructed socialist who hypocritically cries crocodile tears over Danielle Smith suggesting the discrimination against the unvaccinated was the worst discrimination she's seen in her lifetime..I'm 58 years old. In my lifetime, I have never heard a prime minister of Canada say he would not want his children sitting next to an indigenous person or a non-binary person on an airplane. I have never seen the Toronto Star run a banner headline saying indigenous persons or non-binary people should die. Yet, the Star said that of the unvaccinated and was not charged with promoting hatred against an identifiable group. Trudeau routinely attacks the unvaccinated as racists, misogynists and publicly muses about whether the unvaccinated should be “tolerated.”.Danielle Smith owes none of these hypocrites an apology. Rachel Notley supported Deena Hinshaw and her policy responses to COVID-19 that in my view, clearly drove suicides, opioid deaths, countless coronary events, strokes, auto-immune disorders and a surge of excess mortality in Alberta. It is the incompetent Notley, Hinshaw and the complicit Trudeau-subsidized legacy media that owe Albertans an apology..Premier Smith needs to stop reacting to Rachel Notley and the band of snarling hyenas that support her agenda. As much as Jason Kenney deserved to go, everyone needs to remember that if Rachel Notley had been premier when the pandemic broke out, Alberta could have easily been turned into Shanghai complete with QR Codes being linked to “social credit” scores.. .Smith simply needs to right the ship and set a new course with respect for the human rights of all Albertans..Amendments to the Alberta Human Rights Act prohibiting employers from discriminating against anyone on the basis of vaccine-status cannot come soon enough. Fellow Albertans remain unemployed and unable to collect Employment Insurance as a result of the despicable discriminatory policies promoted and lauded by the socialist Notley..As a fellow citizen said recently in Three Hills in a thick Russian accent: “I come to Canada from former Soviet Union. I now find Soviet Union has followed me here.”.A Royal Commission needs to be empaneled sooner rather than later to examine the conduct of the medical establishment within Alberta Health Service and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta who in my view, were complicit in the deaths of thousands of Albertans through their misguided avoidance of every known medical ethic and safeguard..Premier Smith appears to be harassed and bullied everyday with some new allegation of mis-speech taken from the NDP black file, that they have ready to be deployed in every news cycle to keep Premier Smith from taking office through a smooth transition..The same tactic was employed against Liz Truss in the UK with members of the Conservative Party now calling for the return of Boris Johnson. How much of this is orchestrated by Notley and how much of this may be the work of Kenney remains to be seen. In the interim, Premier Smith needs to issue a simple statement: “I worked for years as a journalist and talk radio personality, over the years I have said many things to elicit conversation or debate. I do not apologize for this nor will I be issuing any further apologies or clarifications on anything that I have said. I intend to let my record of service to Alberta in the next months speak for itself. I do however intend to comment on the hypocrisy of my critics including Ms. Notley who has never once spoken out against the marriage of the Jagmeet Singh NDP to the Trudeau Liberals and their planned devastation of the Alberta Economy.”.Premier Smith, we are with you. Hold fast..Jeffrey R.W. Rath B.A.(Hons.), LL.B.(Hons.), is a barrister and constitutional lawyer.
