Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is delivering prepared remarks to the province in her first live address since May 2025.
Smith is expected to focus on the issue of immigration, as a record level of newcomers entering Alberta has heaped new strain on the province’s health care and education systems.
Her remarks come amid rising separatist sentiments in the province, with a referendum on Alberta’s position in the federation likely to come later this year. At the same time, Smith’s address comes as the province’s pipeline deal with the federal government — widely viewed as a last-ditch effort to rebuild Alberta’s relationship with Ottawa — faces a looming April 1 deadline.
Watch her address live in the video above starting at 6:45 MT (8:45 ET).
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