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Prime Minister Danielle Smith speaks at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce luncheon on November 18, 2022. Photo by Jim Wells / Postmedia File
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Battered and injured, but still fighting hard, they fight back.
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They roll out on Tuesday. You won’t be the last. There are many more to come. The election campaign ends at the end of May.
I’m told that UCP is looking at these first two ads as a preview of the theaters, a little taste of upcoming attractions, an indication of the tone UCP will take.
One thing is beyond question.
“It feels better to hit than to be hit,” says one notable figure at Premier Danielle Smith’s UCP.
And boy, were they beaten, not to mention thrown, body hit, run over, taunted and abused.
The NDP and its leader, former Alberta Prime Minister Rachel Notley, had it pretty easy.
The NDP on the offensive, the UCP often on the defensive.
That situation will be a thing of the past if Smith’s UCP has anything to say about it.
With an election looming, the UCP sees itself as a red-zone player with the clock ticking.
Time to get serious and rack up some points.
They take off their gloves. You want to hit back and stop being the punching bag.
They say it’s all about Notley.
Notley, whom former PM Jason Kenney and the UCP defeated in a 22-point landslide four years ago.
The UCP ads say Notley and the NDP are a risky choice Albertans cannot afford.
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In an advert, the UCP portrayed Notley as trying to make Albertans forget when their party was in government, raising taxes 97 times while “putting a carbon tax on us before their ally Justin Trudeau did it “.
They talk about the NDP running up debt with 183,000 job losses.
The ad asks the same question asked in the second pitch.
“Rachel Notley and the NDP. Can we really afford them again?”
The ad redirects people to a website. It’s called Notleywantsyoutoforget.ca
In the second ad, the UCP says, “Rachel Notley wants you to forget Premier Rachel Notley.”
It pits the Rachel Notley campaign against Prime Minister Rachel Notley and says the NDP leader says she cares about affordability but raised taxes when she was in charge.
Says she will stand up for Alberta but backed carbon tax and there again mention of support for Prime Minister.
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She says she will create more jobs but will destroy jobs.
This is a close race.
Notley is more popular than her party.
Your supporters are full of energy to go to the polls and send Smith and the UCP home.
The UCP has recovered in large part because those drawn to the Wildrose Independence Party are back in the UCP.
With the election fast approaching, there’s a big focus on Calgary.
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Notley and the NDP must win seats in the Calgary suburbs.
Rebecca Schulz is a member of the Legislature from the Calgary suburbs.
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Schulz ran against Smith for leadership of the UCP and is now in Smith’s cabinet.
Schulz certainly sounds as if she wants to get into the political ring and assert herself.
“Rachel Notley wants to promote something other than her record. She tries to run like she doesn’t have a record. She has a record. We won’t let her sweep this record under the rug,” says Schulz, then revises the punchline from the ads.
“We will remind Albertans why they rejected Rachel Notley and the NDP in 2019. The NDP is a risky and expensive option that Albertans cannot afford.”
She recalls knocking on doors in 2019, a time Schulz sees as “significant frustration” when “grown men broke down in tears and wondered how they would keep their homes and provide for their families.”
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Schulz says many Albertans now feel optimistic and don’t want to jeopardize it.
At the same time, not a few souls are expressing surprise that this race is as close as it is.
We’ve seen the UCP fight in open rebellion, almost half of party members pushing the former leader and prime minister out of the exit-marked door.
We’ve seen them try to put their united Conservative Humpty Dumpty back together while their new leader stumbled and fumbled, raking in more than their fair share of political fertilizer.
But here are the UCP. They weren’t knocked out. Far from it.
In fact, they are three points better than the NDP in the last nose count.
And now they attack.
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