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 an 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 in the season," he said.

Smith responded to him by saying, "Sometimes they (wildfires) are very easy to trace—when you have lightning storms, it's easy to trace. When you have a train derailment, that's easy to trace."

When Jespersen pressed Smith by trying to say the fires were related to so-called "climate change," she did not answer him.

Smith made the comments less than two weeks after she led the United Conservative Party (UCP) to victory in a general Alberta election, defeating the leftist NDP under its leader Rachel Notley.

During the campaign of Alberta's 2023 election, Smith had to pause to deal with many wildfires that suddenly, out of nowhere, ravaged the province. The fires came on suddenly and uncharacteristically considering the heavy snowfall in the province in early March and rain in April... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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