Danielle Smith once railed about the state pressuring Albertans into taking a vaccine, even one billed as a lifesaver. Today, as premier, she intends to tell us when we’re allowed to die.

That’s what power does to a person.

It’s why anyone claiming to be a libertarian who subsequently chooses a political career is either fooling themself or intends to do exactly that to the rest of us.

The two are mutually exclusive. How can you stand for individual liberty and the right to make your own choices and accept the consequences, but then follow a career where, if successful, you pass laws telling everyone else what to do?

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It is self-delusion tied at the hip with hypocrisy.

That’s why the recent move by Smith’s government to severely curtail an individual’s right to die stands in stark contrast to her past support for Albertans who refused COVID vaccinations despite massive government pressure. These people were, in Smith’s expressed view, the “most........

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