Mon Jun 12, 2023 – 8:50 pm EDT
EDMONTON, Alberta (LifeSiteNews) – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pledged to hire outside arson investigators to determine why some 175 wildfires that have raged across the vast expanse of the province in recent weeks have “no known cause at the moment.”
Smith made the comments last Thursday while speaking on a podcast with known left-leaning host Ryan Jespersen of Real Talk.
“I think you’re watching as I am the number of stories about arson,” Smith said during the podcast.
“I’m very concerned that there are arsonists, and there have been stories as well that we’re investigating, and we’re bringing in arson investigators from outside the province.”
She then said, “We have almost 175 fires with no known cause at the moment.”
Jespersen had claimed to Smith that the wildfires in Alberta, as well as the rest of Canada, were a “real-life metaphor — happening in front of us with a historic wildfire season.”
“Every expert that we talk to indicates the significant factor that climate change is playing on our susceptibility to wildfire and on the conditions that lead to these massive blazes that are happening earlier and earlier
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