Smith apologizes for comparing vaccinated Albertans with supporters of Hitler
UCP Leader Danielle Smith is apologizing for remarks she made in 2021 in which she compared the 75 per cent of Albertans who received a COVID-19 vaccine with supporters of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.
In the podcast interview – which took place on Nov. 10, 2021 – Smith references the Netflix series How to Become a Tyrant, and the first episode that features Hitler.
Smith, the UCP candidate in Brooks-Medicine Hat, recalls in the episode an academic revealing many people said they would not “have succumbed to the charms of the tyrant, somebody telling them that they have all the answers.”
“And he said ‘I guarantee you would,'” Smith continues, “and that’s the test here.”