Premier Danielle Smith swore for months that she didn’t want to politicize issues around the rights and aspirations of transgender, gender-fluid or questioning youth, and has now declared Canada’s most restrictive and wide-ranging set of policies governing the rights and aspirations of those same minors.
She didn’t want to politicize it, and yet there Smith was on Thursday, by herself at the news conference lectern. The health, education and sport ministers weren’t on hand to explain the various reforms, nor any civil servants or subject experts — only Alberta’s chief politician.
In the social-media video issued Wednesday that launched these dramatic moves,
