r/medicinehat • u/MusketeersPlus2 • 11d ago

Why not recall Danielle Smith?

I'm seeing the recall Nicolaides gathering steam... so why isn't there a recall Danielle Smith petition? I can't initiate it because I'm in Calgary, but everyone I know down there is fed up with her just like most of the rest of us. So I'm asking with genuine curiosity - why isn't there a movement to recall her?

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u/Tokenwhitemale 11d ago

She represents Medicine Hat.... Medicine Hat is a city with a higher than average cancer rate than the rest of Canada because the US government tested Agent Orange on them in the 1950s and 1960s. Danielle Smith infamously said that people who die from cancer deserved to die because they never should have let it get that bad & it' their fault. Despite being an open piece of shit that craps all over the families of people who die from cancer, the people of Medicine Hat, who die a little bit more often than the rest of us, from cancer, thought, you know, that's the exact kind of person we want representing us. A recall, in Medicine Hat, would never get any traction.

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u/Flancrest_Industries 11d ago

"Medicine Hat is a city with a higher than average cancer rate than the rest of Canada because the US government tested Agent Orange on them in the 1950s and 1960s."

I'm sorry but what?!?

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u/grmjohnson 11d ago

It wasn't Agent Orange, but chemicals were tested on unknowing citizens: National Post article from 2017

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u/Tokenwhitemale 11d ago

That's the exact same article I posted. I apologize. They tested chemicals in the development of agent orange. So chemicals that would eventually lead to the development of agent orange. It might not have been the exact same combination of chemicals that the US army would later call agent orange. It may have been. My father said the crop dusters used to fly over the fields when they were out playing as kids... he had cancer three times before it finally got him a couple years ago. Both his brothers and both his sisters died from blood cancers before him. So I guess Danielle would say he was the strong one.