EDMONTON – The province of Alberta has responded to the news of Ontario’s recently elected openly gay premier two weeks ago by making history of their own with the election of Canada’s first openly bigoted premier.
Jeff Strott narrowly beat out his opponents to take the premier victory, and political analysts cite his openness about being bigoted, his criticism of Theresa Spence’s hunger strike, and his slamming of the province of Ontario for electing a gay premier as some of the key factors that lead to his win.
“I do believe many Albertans judge a candidate by which groups he marginalizes,” Strot said at at his victory speech. “In the past I would have held my tongue about groups I didn’t trust. Now I’ve got the courage to tell everyone how I really feel about foreigners, aboriginals, cat people, activists, women that don’t wear lipstick, and all Asian people except for hard working Japanese businessmen.”
“I think Strott addressed it quite eloquently that in some other provinces he would have been described as an ‘unacceptable’ candidate,” said Mark Tellus of political blog conservitalist.ca. “The province is already used to bigoted politicians, but this is a huge step forward now that it’s fully out in the open.”
