Podcast host Andrew Ruhland, a Calgary wealth adviser, recounted the liberation of Nazi-occupied Holland by Canadian troops in the Second World War, lamenting to the future UCP leader and Premier of Alberta that COVID-19 lockdowns have taken away the freedoms that previous generations “died for.”“I noticed you’re not wearing a poppy, I’m not wearing a poppy,” Smith remarks to Ruhland during the podcast. “They ruined it for me this year.
“One academic says — they must have filmed this before COVID — so many people will say that they would not have succumbed to the charms of a tyrant, somebody telling them that they have all the answers, and he said ‘I guarantee you would’.” “We’ve seen it,” Smith says. “We have 75% of the public who say not only ‘hit me’, but ‘hit me harder and keep me away from those dirty unvaxxed’.”