Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has clearly graduated from the Donald Trump School of Public Relations, most recently exemplified by her complete refusal to any accept criticism of the province's fire-fighting contributions during last year's disastrous Jasper wildfire.
In fact, not only did she not accept criticism, she demanded that the inquiry apologize, to her and to Alberta, for having the temerity to reprimand them. She called the report "unfair" and "untrue" and demanded its withdrawal.
The "after-action review" was commissioned by the municipality of Jasper in an attempt to see how emergency response and coordination could be improved in the future, and was independently authored. It noted that Smith's UCP party complicated the emergency response unnecessarily by constantly demanding information and trying to change the decision-making, even though the fire started in a national park and was therefore a "federal fire", not a provincial one.
Rather than humbly accepting some responsibility and vowing to do better in the future, Smith just dismissed the report out of hand and tried to heap blame on the federal government. Like I say, the Donald Trump School.
Coincidentally, CBC recently re-broadcast a podcast describing how Alberta's fire-fighting system is far inferior to that of other provinces like Ontario and British Columbia. Food for thought, eh, Danielle?
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