Alberta Premier Danielle Smith takes on the Alberta Teachers' Association with a possible strike just three weeks away

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Danielle Smith is no Ralph Klein.

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This current Alberta premier is not taking a page out of the playbook of a former Alberta premier.

She is not talking up pay cuts or layoffs or both. There is no talk of wielding an axe or slashing the bottom line or any of that fierce lingo from the battles of bygone days.

Smith is not demanding austerity and sacrifice, riling up workers so much that many thousands of them march on the legislature to confront a premier who tells them he will not blink.

No, Smith has a much easier time of it.

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