Danielle Smith celebrates the UCP’s election win and her re-election as premier in the 2023 Alberta election on May 29, 2023.Photo by Azin Ghaffari/Postmedia/File

'Habit of eating our own': Danielle Smith's future the looming issue at UCP annual meeting

While the room was suffused with the usual political bonhomie on Friday, looming overhead is the prospect of a vote on Smith’s continued leadership

by · National Post

RED DEER, ALTA. – Alongside poppies on many lapels at the United Conservative Party’s annual general meeting on Friday were buttons proclaiming support for party leader and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

These were less outlandish than some of the attire (a hoodie reading “F–k Trudeau with a cactus,” for example), although the vast majority of the 6,000 or so attendees appeared as if they could just as easily be heading to church, the mall or hockey practice.

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