Danielle Smith thinks hubris is the upper arm bone.

The obvious circumstantial conclusion is that the UCP intended to use the Recall Act for political purposes against the NDP. If they imagined it would never be turned back against them, that is the very definition of hubris and they deserve whatever happens next.

When the Smith Government passed its Election Statutes Amendment Act last May, boasting that included changes to the Recall Act would “make it easier to recall an MLA,” it had the chance to fix the problems Dr. Nicolaides is now whining about. It didn’t. We all understand why.

The party even boasted on social media that “Alberta’s United Conservatives will give voters the power to fire their MLAs if they break promises.” So the spirit of the legislation was obviously never to hold MLAs accountable only for “something significantly egregious,” as the education minister redundantly put it.