Near tears, Danielle Smith recites a long list of federal indignities
Danielle Smith held back tears Saturday as she recounted a long list of historic indignities Albertans have suffered at the hands of the federal government. Itemizing injuries is its own political genre, and it runs on different fuel than a policy speech: the emotion carries the argument and the list supplies the evidence. Grievance that specific asks to be answered, but it also asks to be kept alive, and those two wants can pull in opposite directions.
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A catalogue of historic injuries is a strange instrument for anyone in office: no single decision can settle it, which keeps it useful for as long as it gets recited.
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Or the point is the reverse — making an old case feel like a living one, so that nothing has to be negotiated in detail.