Edmonton, October 11: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, during her first media conference on the job, said the way that unvaccinated residents have been treated is “unacceptable” and she is looking to defend their rights while she is in office.
Danielle Smith made the comments in Edmonton on Tuesday after she was officially sworn in. During the media availability afterward, she was asked about why she felt vaccine choice needed to be protected.
“The community that faced the most restrictions on their freedoms in the last year were those that made a choice not to be vaccinated,” Premier Smith said.
She says unvaccinated Canadians “have been the most discriminated group” that she’s witnessed in her lifetime.
“That’s a pretty extreme level of discrimination that we have seen,” she said. “This has been an extraordinary time in the last year in particular and I want people to know that I find that unacceptable.”
Meanwhile, Alberta’s Official Opposition says Smith’s outlook on unvaccinated Albertans is another way that the UCP has refused to change its stance on any marginalized group.
