Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s office says her recent comments about chemtrails don’t mean she believes the United States government is spraying them in the province.

“The premier was simply sharing what she has heard from some folks over the summer on this issue,” Smith’s spokesperson Savannah Johannsen said Tuesday in a statement.

Smith faced criticism after she spoke about chemtrails this past weekend at a United Conservative Party town hall in Edmonton.

During the town hall, in response to an audience member’s concerns about chemtrail spraying over Edmonton, Smith said, “The best I have been able to do is talk to the woman who is responsible for controlling the airspace, and she says no one is allowed to go up and spray anything in the air.”

When the crowd hooted and booed, Smith said, “That’s what she’s told me.”

  • TheAgeOfSuperboredom
    4·
    3 months ago

    I wonder how much the conversation with “the woman who is responsible for controlling the airspace” cost.

  • BewitchedBargain@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    3 months ago

    Conspiracy theorists don’t even recommend what to put in chemtrails. How about Cyanoacrylate, to help the country stick together?

    Otherwise, Chemtrail = 🚩

    • girlfreddyOP
      20·
      3 months ago

      By even bringing the subject up in a public forum, and telling the audience she will run down any info there is on them, she’s acknowledging that she does in fact believe they are real.

      • tleb
        14·
        3 months ago

        It’s a clear cut example of dog whistling. Without literally saying it, she engaged with the conversation in a way that tells conspiracy theorists “the US DoD is chemtrailing us”

      • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        3 months ago

        I’m trying to grasp for anything man, you gotta understand just a bit farther south they have a candidate that is saying that immigrants are eating the dogs and cats.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
      13·
      3 months ago

      Listen, if someone asks you about Krampus and you say “I’ve been assured that Krampus does not have permission to operate on Canadian soil”, that doesn’t exactly suggest skepticism, does it now?

    • Jerkface (any/all)English
      2·
      3 months ago

      She’s actively and visibly entertaining the idea that chem trails are real. She is acting as though chem trails are real. It’s the same thing.